Teachers as Researchers: Qualitative Inquiry as a Path to Empowerment

Teachers as researchers, good work and critical inquiry connecting knower and known - constructing an emancipating system of meaning exploring assumptions behind education research - the nature of positivism what constitutes knowledge? purposes of research - the concept of instrumental rationality the quest for certainty verifiability the value of the qualitative dimension values, objectivity, and ideology an example - historiographical research for teachers.