Teacher-Researcher Collaboration from Two Perspectives

By Polly Ulichny and Wendy Schoener

How can qualitative research in education incorporate the voices of both the researched and the researcher? In this article, coauthors Polly Ulichny, a researcher, and Wendy Schoener, a teacher, respond to this question. In alternating sections throughout the article, they present two distinct interpretations of the teaching and learning that occurred in an adult English as a Second Language classroom and of their developing relationship as collaborators. Together, Ulichny and Schoener come to realize that interdependence extends beyond agreeing on a research focus to include mutual collaboration in all phases of a research project.

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