ACCESSING ELECTRONIC JOURNALS

1) Accessing Educational Researcher from JSTOR

We aren't allowed to make multiple copies because of the agreement with JSTOR but each individual can make a copy for their personal use. Hence my desire that you access your own copies. Do please see if you can access the following three papers by Elliot Eisner in Educational Researcher. I think the 1988 paper on the primary of experience and the politics of method is particularly relevant to our enquiries because of his work on the hegemony of the propositional form and on art as the image of feeling. Do share any problems you have with gaining access and let's see if we can sort them out together. I have also included below, references to a paper on paradigm proliferation by Robert Donmoyer which makes a most telling point about different approaches to validity. I have also included a 1993 paper by Kathy Carter on the place of story in educational research and references to the work of Jean Clandinin and Michael Connolly who have done so much to develop the legitimacy of narrative forms of communication in educational research.

Hoping that you will practise accessing the e-journals from your computer.

You will need your BUCS name and password to gain entry:

Click on:

http://www.bath.ac.uk/library/ej/

Click on JSTRO in the Electronic Journal Services menu on the right of the page.

You should see a page JSTOR Collections Available at Your Institution.

Click on the Arts & Science IV Collection

You should see a page Currently Available Journals – Arts & Sciences IV Collection

Click on Education in the top menu bar under Currently Available Journals

Scroll to Educational Research and click on it.

Click on Search this Journal

At the top of the box in the section All of these words type in the primacy of experience and the politics of method and click search.

You should see a list which includes The Primacy of Experience and the Politics of Method by Elliot Eisner – click on this and you should be able to download the paper.

A repeat search in the All of these words with

forms of understanding and the future of educational research

should bring up Eisner’s Presidential Address to AERA from 1993

and a repeat seach in the All of these words with

the problems and perils of alternative forms of data representation

should bring up Eisner’s 1997 paper.

Other papers of interest may be:

Educational Research in an Era of Paradigm Proliferation: What's a Journal Editor to Do?

Robert Donmoyer Educational Researcher > Vol. 25, No. 2 (Mar., 1996), pp. 19-25

The Place of Story in the Study of Teaching and Teacher Education

Kathy Carter

Educational Researcher > Vol. 22, No. 1 (Jan., 1993), pp. 5-12+18

Teachers' Professional Knowledge Landscapes: Teacher Stories. Stories of Teachers. School Stories. Stories of Schools

D. Jean Clandinin; F. Michael Connelly

Educational Researcher > Vol. 25, No. 3 (Apr., 1996), pp. 24-30

The Stories Educational Researchers Tell about Themselves

John K. Smith

Educational Researcher > Vol. 26, No. 5 (Jun., 1997), pp. 4-11

2) BERA Presidential Addresses

BERA have published their Presidential Addresses to mark their 30 year anniversary and made them freely available from:

http://www.bera.ac.uk/publications/presidential_addresses.php

The Lomax, Bassey and Whitehead addresses have clear relevance for our enquiries.

3) Accessing the Cambridge Journal of Education

Go into http://www.bath.ac.uk/library/ej/

Click on c in the table of the alphabet

Scroll down to the Cambridge Journal of Education, click on the title, put in your

BUCS username and password and you have access to the 2000-2006 Volumes.

4) Accessing Educational Action Research

Go into http://www.bath.ac.uk/library/ej/

Click on e in the table of the alphabet

Scroll down to Educational Action Research, click on the title, put in your

BUCS username and password.

5) Accessing Action Research

Go into http://www.bath.ac.uk/library/ej/

Click on a in the table of the alphabet

Scroll down to Action Research, click on the title, put in your BUCS username and password.

Do have a read of the June 2006 issue. I particularly liked the Anisur Rahman paper:

Roots of action research and self-reliance thinking in Rabindranath Tagore

Anisur Rahman

Action Research 2006 4: 231-245.

Accessing directly the work of Judi Marshall at:

http://www.bath.ac.uk/carpp/judimarshall/paperslist.htm

( In particular see Living Systemic Thinking and Living Life as Inquiry

Accessing directly the work of Peter Reason at:

http://www.bath.ac.uk/~mnspwr/paperslist.htm

(In particular see the papers on Co-operative Inquiry

Accessing Living Theory Theses at:

http://www.bath.ac.uk/~edsajw/living.shtml

(The theses of Mary Hartog, Madeline Church, Marian Naidoo, Margaret Farren and Eleanor Lohr were submitted under a change in regulation of 2004 allowing the submission of e-media. These submissions connect with Elliot Eisner’s 1993 Presidential Address to AERA advocating such representations of research)