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Being and becoming: action research as pedagogy.
Abstract
Engaging in teacher action research provides practicing teachers with opportunities for growth as well as a means to contribute to understanding of best practice in the field. This article describes an educator's pedagogical growth through an action research project she conducted in a suburban high school English classroom in a Midwestern state.
Introduction
It all started with a question. I was teaching high school English at a suburban high school, taking a university graduate class on literary theory, and my British Literature students were curious. They knew I had assignments and papers to write; they wanted to know what it was I ...
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