Materials About Research in Practice
Adult Literacy Practitioners as Researchers (ERIC No. ED372663) (1994) This ERIC digest examines the thinking that underlies practitioner inquiry, explains the phases of an inquiry process, and gives examples of projects.
A Framework to Encourage and Support Practitioner Involvement in Adult Literacy Research in Practice (1999) This paper presents a framework and some concepts for creating systems to support research in practice.
Initiating Practitioner Inquiry: Adult Literacy Teachers, Tutors, and Administrators Research Their Practice (No. TR93-11) (1993) A look at how practitioner research challenges traditional assumptions about knowledge-making. The report suggests practitioner research identifies and investigates a distinctive set of problems in practice and demonstrates that understanding practice cannot be accomplished by university researchers alone.
It Simply Makes Us Better. Learning from Literacy Research in
Practice Networks. A Resource for Literacy Research in
Practice in Canada (2002)
http://www.nald.ca/ripal/Resourcs/simply/english/cover.htm
A study of eleven research-in-practice networks and projects in the UK, Australia and the US. Along with detailed descriptions of each network, the report discusses reasons for supporting research in practice, funding and coordinating networks, involving practitioners and learners in research, research topics and approaches, practitioner working conditions and directions for research in practice in Canada.
Learning about Participatory Approaches in Adult Literacy Education. Six Research in Practice Studies (2002)
http://www.nald.ca/province/alt/ripal/resourcs/learning/cover.htm
Six reports by adult literacy practitioners who researched a variety of issues surrounding participatory adult literacy. These reports are framed by chapters describing the theory and practice of participatory literacy research in practice.
