Course Description:

This course is a graduate seminar for practicing teachers and pre-service teachers who are committed to improving their teaching practices. The premise of this course is that teachers are both consumers and producers of knowledge (theory) about teaching and learning. Teachers will learn how to become teacher-researchers who investigate and evaluate their teaching practice and create their own living theory. Teachers will be involved with action research, an inquiry that has become popular in teacher education as a form of professional learning. Teachers will also be encouraged to develop their own phronesis (practical wisdom in Greek) and praxis (practice informed by phronesis) through action research.

Course Objectives

1. •To help teachers learn how to conduct action research to    
   

        improve their teaching practices;

1. •To help teachers become reflective practitioners developing
   

        their own phronesis and praxis;

1. •To help teachers become researchers who generate their own
   

        living/lived theory.