Despite the burgeoning literature that describes the most effective ways of engaging early
childhood educators in professional learning, very little empirical work in North America has …

In this paper, we present an argument for Practitioner Inquiry (PI). We briefly introduce PI,
and we indicate how PI recasts the professional and political role of the Early Years …

Practitioner research is increasingly used by and with teachers to counter discourses and
policies of top-down standardisation. Growing numbers of researchers advocate benefits as …

This article investigates the interaction between educational research and practice in school
systems, through a bi-dimensional framework. Forty-four papers were selected and …

Propositional teacher knowledge is recognised as valuable in classroom teaching practice,
yet little attention has been paid to it relative to practical knowledge. This mixed-methods …

Method. The paper is based on (i) findings from an empirical study in a creative academic
context,(ii) scoping literature reviews of: creativity and information behaviour, search as …

There is growing global recognition of the contribution that leadership development can
make to improving quality and outcomes in the Early Years (EY) education sector. UK …

Literature about practitioner research focuses on the production of research or building of
research capacity, with limited exploration of the wider contribution that practitioner research …

Practitioner research has become a recognised and legitimate form of professional learning
in many professional contexts, and a significant component of what has been identified as a …

The ethical and methodological dimensions of researching with refugee children and their
families are complex. Our project involved documenting different understandings of how …