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 Theory11 1 Learning and Maintaining Professional Expertise Within aMulti-Professional Critical Care Team 15 Jill Cochrane 2 The 'Q' Standards and Initial Teacher Training: The DiscursiveFormation of Teachers and their Trainers 31 Paul Bartle 3 Power and Status Theories in Teachers' ProfessionalDevelopment 47 Karen Castle 4 The Process of Technology Learning: Applying Bruner's Theoryon Play, Discovery and Cultural Learning to the Acquisition of ICTCapability 61 Paula Beer Part II Emergent Voices: Accounts by Researchers BecomingFamiliar with the Use of Theory 75 5 Teachers' Professional Identity: Theoretical Perspectives onWorkplace Learning in the Teaching Context 81 Rob Foster 6 Children's University Aspirations and the Effects of Culturaland Social Capital 95 Matt Cochrane 7 Finding Theory Through Collaborative Research 109 Clare Woolhouse 8 How Applying a Discourse-Based Approach to InvestigateInclusion Changed a Research Project and a Way of Thinking123 Linda Dunne Part III Voices of Experience: Accounts by Researchers Versedin the Use of Theory 139 9 Should I be Singing This, and if So, How High?: TheoreticalApproaches to Boyhood and Masculinity 145 Martin Ashley 10 Theorizing from Bricolage: Researching Collaboration in Artand 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