In the first chapter of The Process of Conducting Research Creswell and Guetterman discuss both the role that research can play in education as well as giving an overview of the process of how to conduct education research. The chapter aligns conducting research with the scientific method beginning with determining what question needs to be…

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This post was co-created with Sarah Williams When continuing to build on our extended visual metaphor for this assignment we chose to add the moving pieces of teaching as living animals. We chose to use the indigenous representations of wolves by BC artist Michelle Stoney for multiple reasons, first in indigenous mythologies wolf represents a…

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The work for this was co-created with Sara Williams https://prezi.com/view/rmZHWQlwNTaDIlkQEC1W/  As educators we draw from a variety of sources, philosophies, experiences and perspectives to design the programs we use in our classrooms. Like a landscape without a variety of elements it would be incomplete and too much of the same makes it monotonous. We have…

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Doing the reading for this module I’m left with more questions than answers. While the readings themselves were clear I am now questioning how we prepare teachers for the classroom. As beginning teachers, we took methods courses about how to teach different subjects and learned to read curriculum documents to figure out what to teach…

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