Dear "Research_Practice" Members,

Just out:

JRP, 3(1), 2007
Special Issue: Students' Reflections on Doing Research
http://jrp.icaap.org/index.php/jrp/issue/view/5

(Some typographic errors may still exist. Please point out if you
notice any.)

Here is the opening paragraph of the editorial article by Mark A.
Earley, Bowling Green State University, Ohio, USA.

Earley, M. A. (2007). Lessons learned from students' research
experiences [Editorial]. Journal of Research Practice, 3(1), Article
E1. Retrieved June 8, 2007, from
http://jrp.icaap.org/index.php/jrp/article/view/93/75

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Teaching graduate students how to do research can be a challenge for
many instructors because "research education" is not an established
field of research like other areas of teaching such as mathematics
education, nursing education, science education, and statistics
education. There are no scholarly journals devoted solely to teaching
research methods; these sources are instead scattered across
disciplines and journals (e.g., Nurse Researcher, Volume 13, Number 2,
2005; Sociology, Volume 15, Issue 4, 1981; and Scandinavian Journal of
Educational Research, Volume 49, Issue 1, 2005). Furthermore, even
though research methods courses are a staple in most graduate training
programs, instructors were rarely taught how to teach research methods
as part of their own graduate programs. Left to their own devices,
instructors of research courses must rely on a network of peers,
scattered research literature, and much trial-and-error as they
develop and improve upon their own research methods courses.
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Table of Contents

* Editorial

Lessons Learned from Students' Research Experiences
Mark A. Earley

* Main Articles

On Learning the Research Craft: Memoirs of a Journeyman Researcher
Cathy Guthrie

Astronomy Education: Becoming a Hybrid Researcher
Erik Brogt

Voice of the Researcher: Extending the Limits of What Counts as Research
Stephen John Quaye

Painting a Counter-Narrative of African Womanhood: Reflections on How
My Research Transformed Me
Faith Wambura Ngunjiri

Reclaiming Queerness: Self, Identity, and the Research Process
Janna Marie Jackson

The Role of Documentation in Practice-Led Research
Nithikul Nimkulrat

Re-Envisioning Research as Social Change: Four Students' Collaborative
Journey
Malia Villegas, Theresa Kathleen Sullivan, Shai Fuxman, Marit Dewhurst

Building Internal Strength, Sustainable Self-Esteem, and Inner
Motivation as a Researcher
Carlos Andres Trujillo

Constructing Meaning from Letterforms: Reflections on the Development
of a Practice-Based Research Proposal
Phil Jones

The Frustrations of Reader Generalizability and Grounded Theory:
Alternative Considerations for Transferability
Thomas Misco

A Portrait of the Researcher as a Boundary Crosser
Jacob D. Vakkayil

Submission Reviewers for Volume 3, 2007
D. P. Dash
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OTHER NEWS

1. We are submitting JRP for a review by the newly established
first-ever open access press, AU Press:
http://www.aupress.ca/
If it clears the stringent review process, then JRP will become
eligible to carry the AU Press imprint and also benefit from the
various activities and campaigns of the Press.

2. Kat Hagedorn (OAIster/Metadata Harvesting Librarian, Digital
Library Production Service, University of Michigan, USA) has just
confirmed that JRP has been included as a data source for their
service. It should appear on their Web site within a week:
http://www.oaister.org/

As you may know, Open Archives Initiative (OAI) is a protocol for
metadata harvesting -- the emerging global standard for storing and
retrieving digital content. JRP is OAI-compliant.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Archives_Initiative

3. Finally, have you noticed the following Wikipedia page?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_of_Research_Practice

Keep in touch.

DP
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