Karyn Cooper
Biographic Data
| ID | 4522511 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karyn Cooper |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karyn |
| FAMILY NAME | Cooper |
| SIGNATURE | COOPER K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Renewal of a Concept
In Cooper’s and White’s “Distinguished Performances: The Educative Role of Disciplines in Qualitative Research in Education” published in the International Review of Qualitative Research (2009), Cooper and White describe programs of research that led them to develop “The Five Contexts,” a analytical framework for conducting, understanding, and interpreting qualitative research in education and in other disciplines (169). That article ends with a …
Qualitative Research in the Post-Modern Era
Thick Narratives
In this article, we report upon the adoption of Jerome Bruner's narrative approach, which served as a theoretical framework for analyzing, representing, and disseminating more than 60 hrs of documentary research footage. We invited international scholars in the field of the social sciences and humanities to document their philosophies and autobiographies on videotape. We asked the following questions: What are the overarching themes or theories t…
Culturally Relevant Education and Critical Pedagogy
This article considers two educational strategies that serve to empower students by responding more authentically to student needs. We begin by defining our terms and then move to a tiny school deep in the jungles of Central America. This school, like many schools in developing nations, struggles to educate students for an uncertain future. At issue are contradictions extant in a postmodern, globalized world, where colonial domination has been re…
Qualitative Research in the Post-Modern Era
Distinguished Performances
Because society has invested in education to resolve numerous social problems relating to schools, neighborhoods and communities, educational research is of paramount significance. Qualitative research in education has, in the past several decades, experienced an explosion of new methodologies endeavoring to address the messy, complex and dynamic nature of life in this postmodern era. Education has drawn from conceptual and methodological theorie…
Creating Roles to Facilitate Teacher Change
The purpose of this research project was to explore the functioning of a drama teacher support group established in 1991 in response to teachers’ requests. The objectives of the study were to describe the development of the teachers as they endeavoured to incorporate drama into their repertoire of teaching strategies, to examine the role of the group facilitators, and to monitor the development and role of the group itself. Specifically, the proj…
Thick Narratives
In this article, we report upon the adoption of Jerome Bruner's narrative approach, which served as a theoretical framework for analyzing, representing, and disseminating more than 60 hrs of documentary research footage. We invited international scholars in the field of the social sciences and humanities to document their philosophies and autobiographies on videotape. We asked the following questions: What are the overarching themes or theories t…
Creating Roles to Facilitate Teacher Change
The purpose of this research project was to explore the functioning of a drama teacher support group established in 1991 in response to teachers’ requests. The objectives of the study were to describe the development of the teachers as they endeavoured to incorporate drama into their repertoire of teaching strategies, to examine the role of the group facilitators, and to monitor the development and role of the group itself. Specifically, the proj…
Distinguished Performances
Because society has invested in education to resolve numerous social problems relating to schools, neighborhoods and communities, educational research is of paramount significance. Qualitative research in education has, in the past several decades, experienced an explosion of new methodologies endeavoring to address the messy, complex and dynamic nature of life in this postmodern era. Education has drawn from conceptual and methodological theorie…
Qualitative Research in the Post-Modern Era
Culturally Relevant Education and Critical Pedagogy
This article considers two educational strategies that serve to empower students by responding more authentically to student needs. We begin by defining our terms and then move to a tiny school deep in the jungles of Central America. This school, like many schools in developing nations, struggles to educate students for an uncertain future. At issue are contradictions extant in a postmodern, globalized world, where colonial domination has been re…
Thick Narratives
In this article, we report upon the adoption of Jerome Bruner's narrative approach, which served as a theoretical framework for analyzing, representing, and disseminating more than 60 hrs of documentary research footage. We invited international scholars in the field of the social sciences and humanities to document their philosophies and autobiographies on videotape. We asked the following questions: What are the overarching themes or theories t…
Qualitative Research in the Post-Modern Era
The Renewal of a Concept
In Cooper’s and White’s “Distinguished Performances: The Educative Role of Disciplines in Qualitative Research in Education” published in the International Review of Qualitative Research (2009), Cooper and White describe programs of research that led them to develop “The Five Contexts,” a analytical framework for conducting, understanding, and interpreting qualitative research in education and in other disciplines (169). That article ends with a …
Sociology (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Pedagogy (3 works) · Qualitative research (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Children's Rights and Participation (2 works) · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy (2 works) · History (2 works) · Participatory Visual Research Methods (2 works)