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What Can the Literature on Communities of Practice Tell Us about Educational Research? Reflections on Some Recent Proposals
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Hammersley, Martyn – International Journal of Research and Method in Education, 2005
Several writers have appealed to the literature on communities of practice as a way of thinking about the nature of educational research. In this paper, I look at the benefits and dangers of doing this. There seem to be two main sorts of lesson that have been drawn from this literature, one about research as an activity in its own right, the other…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Natural Sciences, Educational Research
Teaching History through the Use of Story: Working with Early Years Practitioners Who Do Not Have Qualified Teacher Status, in Settings Other than Schools
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Lunn, Paul; Bishop, Alison – International Journal of Research and Method in Education, 2005
This article arose from a series of workshops with practitioners in early years teaching. The workshops addressed how history could be taught to very young children, three- to five-years-old. The authors were aware that there was a widely held belief that history was inappropriate for the very young child. The authors felt that this was because of…
Descriptors: Workshops, Young Children, Foreign Countries, History Instruction