Studying Your Own School: An Educators Guide to Qualitative Practitioner Research

School Administrator, Nov, 1995 by Nan S. Spalding

Studying Your Own School: An Educators Guide to Qualitative Practitioner Research is an encouraging and exciting treatise on practitioner research for those educators who knew all along they were doing something important that needed to be documented and shared with others.

A useful starting guide, the book provides definition, history, process, and legitimization of practitioner research. For example, in the analysis of data stage the authors provide an array of thoughtful questions that will help the researcher to reflect objectively on his or her work and data collecting.

In the hands of master teachers, talented building leaders, or other skilled administrators, this book could be a powerful tool for positive change in an immediate environment and even beyond.

(Studying Your Own School: An Educators Guide to Qualitative Practitioner Research, by Gary L. Anderson, Kathryn Herr, and Ann Sigrid Nihlen, Corwin Press, 2455 Teller Road, Thousand Oaks, Calif. 91320, 1994, 203 pp. with index, $21.95 softcover)