This book is a Festschrift for Emeritus Professor Stephen Kemmis,
who has a long and eminent career as an educational researcher and
academic spanning over 40 years. His work in curriculum,
evaluation, critical practice, action research and practice theory
has been influential across all continents of the world. The book
examines critical perspectives on educational practice and the
participatory nature of action research, including practitioner
research particularly as undertaken by teachers in schools.
Including vignettes from Kemmis' colleagues and mentors, it draws
on contributions from a range of academics whose scholarship has
been inspired, influenced and initiated by his work. The chapters
stem from a range of countries, including Australia, Canada,
Finland, weden, the United Kingdom, United States of America, and
Trinidad and Tobago - a testimony to the enduring and global legacy
of Kemmis' scholarship. Contributing authors include leading
educational research scholars, indigenous elders from Australia,
and community leaders concerned with environmental sustainability.
The concluding focus of this book turns towards practice theory.
Kemmis' later work led to the development of the theory of practice
architectures and gave rise to the development of the theory of
ecologies of practices in education. Research drawing on the theory
of practice architectures and ecologies of practices resulted in
the leading text "Changing practices, changing education" (Kemmis,
Wilkinson, Edwards-Groves, Hardy, Grootenboer & Bristol, 2014,
Springer) that reports on an Australian investigation of the
ecological relationship between student learning, teaching,
professional learning, leading and researching practices.This
theory is now being applied to study practices across a wide range
of international contexts, sites and disciplines including early
childhood, school education, university education, vocational
education and training, community environment, indigenous cultural
sustainability and health.
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