Applying Theory to Educational Research

About the Contributors vii Preface xiii Acknowledgements xv Introduction 1 Jeff Adams, Matt Cochrane and Linda Dunne Part I New Voices: Beginning Researchers Apply Theory 11 1 Learning and Maintaining Professional Expertise Within a Multi-Professional Critical Care Team 15 Jill Cochrane 2 The 'Q' Standards and Initial Teacher Training: The Discursive Formation of Teachers and their Trainers 31 Paul Bartle 3 Power and Status Theories in Teachers' Professional Development 47 Karen Castle 4 The Process of Technology Learning: Applying Bruner's Theory on Play, Discovery and Cultural Learning to the Acquisition of ICT Capability 61 Paula Beer Part II Emergent Voices: Accounts by Researchers Becoming Familiar with the Use of Theory 75 5 Teachers' Professional Identity: Theoretical Perspectives on Workplace Learning in the Teaching Context 81 Rob Foster 6 Children's University Aspirations and the Effects of Cultural and Social Capital 95 Matt Cochrane 7 Finding Theory Through Collaborative Research 109 Clare Woolhouse 8 How Applying a Discourse-Based Approach to Investigate Inclusion Changed a Research Project and a Way of Thinking 123 Linda Dunne Part III Voices of Experience: Accounts by Researchers Versed in the Use of Theory 139 9 Should I be Singing This, and if So, How High?: Theoretical Approaches to Boyhood and Masculinity 145 Martin Ashley 10 Theorizing from Bricolage: Researching Collaboration in Art and Design Education 157 Madeleine Sclater 11 Constructivism and the Pedagogy of Teacher Education: Reflections on Practice 175 Graham Rogers 12 Developing Professional Practice through Action Research: Theory-Generative Approaches in Practitioner Research 189 Mary McAteer 13 Art Practice as Education Research 203 Jeff Adams Postscript 219 Jeff Adams, Matt Cochrane and Linda Dunne Index 221