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Stories of practitioner enquiry: using narrative interviews to explore teachers’ perspectives of learning to learn

Lookup NU author(s): Ulrike Thomas, Lucy TipladyORCiD, Dr Kate Wall

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Abstract

The Campaign for Learning’s Learning to Learn Phase 4 was a research project in which teachers undertook practitioner enquiry to explore innovative pedagogies under the umbrella term of learning to learn. In 2008, to gain greater understanding of what this process meant to the participating teachers the research team at Newcastle University undertook narrative interviews which examined three key areas: the motivation for undertaking practitioner enquiry, the experience for both teachers and students, and the support needed to facilitate success. This paper examines how the decision to use narrative interviews in conjunction with an iterative validation process supported a meaningful and ethical exchange between the teachers and researchers, where knowledge generation was foregrounded, and how despite each teacher producing a unique, highly contextual story, cross-narrative themes emerged which have enabled the research team to broaden our understanding of practitioner enquiry.

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Author(s): Thomas U, Tiplady L, Wall K

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education

Year: 2013

Volume: n/a

Print publication date: 26/03/2013

ISSN (print): 0951-8398

ISSN (electronic): 1366-5898

Publisher: Routledge

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09518398.2013.771224

DOI: 10.1080/09518398.2013.771224

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