Narratives and activity theory as reflective tools in action research

Peered and tiered learning: action research as creative cultural pedagogy

“…One ongoing research-as-pedagogy project in Melbourne, Australia -Culture Shack -meets Eisner's call by drawing on its 'peered and tiered' knowledge transfer model and combining the creative pedagogies of artists, researchers, teacher-educators, preservice teachers, and young people in the collaboration. In doing so, this article extends earlier work in this journal (Mason 2005;Barrett 2010;Stuart 2012) that speaks to the mutually beneficial relationship between research and practice in educational settings, and to the reflective potential of arts as a way of strengthening this interdependency.…”

Exploring the Use of Narratives to Understand Pre-service Teachers' Practicum Experiences from a Sociocultural Perspective

“…Accordingly, PSTs' narratives and interviews represent socially mediated view of experience in the local context and put forward suggestions for PSTE programmes. These narratives raised PSTs' awareness of sociocultural contexts within which they taught and learnt to teach (Stuart, 2012). In this study, the analysis uncovers the fact that Turkey, with immigrants and refugees primarily from middle-east countries like Syria, Iran, Iraq and citizens from various ethnic groups, is a growing and developing country located as a bridge between Asia and Europe.…”

“…Narratives, as a reflection and data collection tool, helped researchers discover PSTs' ways of thinking, taking multiple perspectives on the practicum and teaching, and values in the learning teaching process (Griffin, 2003;Stuart, 2012). Nearly half of the PSTs discussed how initially they blamed another person or the situation for the dilemmas in their narratives and then understood the need to evaluate an issue from multiple perspectives.…”

Before and after Lightfoot/León. Using rich pictures to illustrate an educational journey through the world of opera and ballet

“…Presenting the data in narrative form is an established action research method (Stuart, 2012;Kajamaa, 2012). Polkinghorne (1996b) describes the narratives as centred on a "plot", i.e.…”