Sessional Lecturer - CTL1049H - Critical Practitioner Research in Education

Sessional Lecturer - CTL1049H - Critical Practitioner Research in Education

Course number and title

CTL1049H - Critical Practitioner Research in Education

Course description

This course explores inquiry as a methodological stance on practice, a framework for investigating and addressing critical issues in school, classroom, and community-based research. What Cochran‑Smith and Lytle (2001; 2009) have theorized as an inquiry stance invites educators to regard educational projects as sites of knowledge generation, occurring within social, historical, cultural, and political contexts. With its emphasis on the intimate relationship between knowledge and practice, this concept foregrounds the role that practitioners can play—individually and collectively—in generating understandings, rich conceptualizations, in the service of enacting new educational possibilities.

Drawing on this notion of inquiry as stance, this course...