Qualitative Research in Education

Ten Australian Elementary Teachers' Discourse and Reported Pedagogical Practices during Cooperative Learning

“…Semistructured interviews (Freebody, 2003) were conducted individually with teachers at the end of the year to clarify their perceptions of their experiences of embedding cooperative learning into their curricula, including their thoughts on the students' responses to this approach to learning.…”

Relationship to place: positioning Aboriginal knowledge and perspectives in classroom pedagogies

“…Freebody (2003) and Cochran-Smith and Lytle (2009) discuss education research designed to study and solve practical problems in schools, that is how do teachers incorporate Aboriginal knowledge and perspectives in school programs? We took the position of action researchers to concentrate on 'professional self-improvement through focused collaboration' (Freebody, 2003, p. 87).…”

Institutional conceptualisations of teacher education as academic work in England

“…A third approach employed Membership Categorisation Analysis (MCA), a method of understanding how certain categories are produced in texts or the jointly-constructed discourse of research interviews (Hester & Eglin 1997, Freebody 2003. MCA involves identifying emerging categories in the discourse, understanding how attributions are made to these categories (looking at particular verbs and adjectives, for example) and how they are substantiated (e.g.…”