Action research in teacher education : a Caribbean perspective / edited by Thomas G. Ryan & Lorna Gow-Morrison.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ryan, Thomas G. (Thomas Gerald), 1960- editor.

Morrison, Lorna Gow, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Action research in education--Carribean Area.

Action research in education.

Teachers--Training of--Carribean Area.

Teachers.

Teachers--In-service training--Carribean Area.

Other Title:

Action Research in Teacher Education

Place of Publication:

Common Ground Research Networks

Summary:

"This book is testament to collaboration being a process that melds age, geographical location, experiences and qualifications. Emerging from a professional conversation in which a dream was shared and later explored and nurtured, this book provides a forum through which a group of emerging researchers from the Sam Sharpe Teachers' College in St. James, Jamaica, display research as their way of impacting and transforming practice. The teacher researchers are between the ages of 18 and 50 years old and graduated with degrees in different specializations. The emerging researchers are graduates of the Sam Sharpe Teachers' College who readily consented to sharing their research papers with 'the world'. We, the editors, interpret their consent as acknowledgement that pre-service teacher research is not confined to being a coursework grade but rather, is a significant step in their journey as teacher practitioners. This book therefore is a source of motivation to pre-service teachers, in-service educators and professionals who need to develop and demonstrate an "I can" disposition towards their practice"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Jamaican pre-service teacher research / Dr. Thomas G. Ryan

Impacting vocabulary development via words walls / Kenisha Barrett

Improving cooperative learning, social skills and academic performance of primary students / Tori Williams

Improving reading fluency via repeated reading / Orpah Dawkins-Bailey

Increasing science students? Academic performance via hands-On activities / Mekia Mowatt

Using games to improve number sense / Jacqueline Strong-Rhoden

Career education of secondary students in Western Jamaica / Paula Hall-Bedassie

Manipulatives and academic performance in mathematics / Sheree Schurton

The E.V.O.K.E.R. strategy: dramatic impact on academic achievement of male students within secondary English / Dahlia Duhaney

The impact of role-playing and KWL on comprehension / Garcia Johnson

Summative reflections: momentum, obstacles and inertia / Dr. Thomas G. Ryan.

Notes:

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.

ISBN:

1-86335-154-X