Chapter Introduction -- chapter 1 PART I I EXPERIENCE A PROBLEM WHEN SOME OF MY EDUCATIONAL VALUES ARE DENIED IN MY PRACTICE The Professional Education of Teachers -- chapter 2 The Problem of Educational Knowledge -- chapter 3 PART II I IMAGINE A SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM The Notion of a Living Educational Theory -- chapter 4 The Educational Enterprise -- chapter 5 Towards an Educational Epistemology of Practice -- chapter 6 PART III I ACT IN THE DIRECTION OF THE SOLUTION The Answer of Avon -- chapter 7 Action Research for Groups of Schools -- chapter 8 Whole-School Development -- chapter PART IV I EVALUATE THE IMAGINED SOLUTIONS Evaluating Practice -- chapter 10 Evaluating Support Practices -- chapter 11 Evaluating Provision for Continuing Teacher Education -- chapter 12 PART V I MODIFY MY IDEAS AND MY PRACTICE IN THE LIGHT OF THE EVALUATION Perspectives on Practice -- chapter 13 Education and the Society of Tomorrow -- chapter Appendix -- chapter Stars
Summary
Working with case studies of actual practice, Jean McNiff argues that educational knowledge is created by individual teachers as they attempt to express their own values in their professional lives
Analysis
Education Research
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 116-120) and index
