Table of Contents

* Acknowledgments Preface Part I-Breathing Life into Research Methods for Teachers 1. Introduction: Why Critical Praxis Research? 2. Stages of Grief & Bringing the Joy Back to Inquiry 3. Positivist Research, Death of the Self 4. Qualitative Research: The Researcher in a Comatose State 5. CPR, Breathing New Life into Research Methods for Teachers Part II-Practicing Critical Praxis Research 6. The Seven Deadly Sins: Vices and Virtues of CPR 7. The Art of CPR Research Design 8. From Knowledge Discovery to Understanding 9. Demystifying Research Ethics in CPR Part III-CPR in Action 10. Finding Solidarity with/in/through CPR 11. Shaken and Stirred by Carolyne Ali-Kahn 12. Making Space for Praxis: Reflections on Research with ESL Teachers by Elizabeth Robinson 13. Developing My Own Ways of Knowing as a Teacher Researcher by Maura Morse 14. The Interplay of Identity, Context, and Purpose in a Study of Mathematics Teaching and Learning by Roser Gine 15. An Alternative in UpStream: Reconsidering Alternative Education and Resiliency vis-a-vis Identity and Context by Siouxsie Espinosa 16. From Research to Me-Search by Christopher J. Aviles 17. The Whole Story by Melissa N. Winchell Glossary Index