The Epic and the Novel

Dialogism and Teacher Research

Bibliographic Data

ID9732186
AuthorsDavid L Coulter (University of British Columbia, corresponding author), David Coulter (The Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B. C., V6T 1Z4; tel.: (604) 822-6196; fax: (604) 822-4244;. He specializes in philosophical hermeneutics, teacher research, and educational leadership)
Year1999
Volume28
Issue3
Pages4-13
Publication date1999-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEducational Researcher (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0013-189X • E-ISSN: 1935-102X
PublisherAmerican Educational Research Association (AERA) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3102/0013189x028003004
OpenAlexW1970505445
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited30

Teacher research has been concerned with the generation of knowledge and voice for more than 70 years; teachers are invited to join the academic dialogue by becoming researchers themselves. Yet the promised fusion of communities seems as distant as ever. I want to suggest that for these two solitudes to be brought together, the emphasis needs to change from the generation of knowledge to dialogue about what counts as knowledge. Using the work of the Russian literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin (1895–1975), I argue for dialogic research. In making my case, I present a research problem that was investigated by a group of school administrators and teachers, sketch the previous response of the research community to that issue, take a brief detour through Bakhtin's literary theory, and then show how each of the conceptual resources that he supplies–polyphony, chronoscope and carnival–affected the research project and the ensuing dialogue about knowledge and its relationship to practice

Dialogic · Educational research · EPIC · Epistemology · Literature · Mathematics education · Pedagogy · Political science · Polyphony · Sketch · Sociology · Computer Science · Philosophy · Psychology · Reflective Practices in Education · Religious Education and Schools · Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies

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