Transforming Urban Education

This edited volume provides insights into research of places in which social life is enacted as if there were no research being undertaken. The research was intended to improve practice. Teachers and learners as research participants were primarily concerned with teaching and learning and as a consequence as we learned from research participants were made aware of what we learned-the purpose being to improve learning environments. Accordingly research designs are contingent on what happens and emergent in that what we learned changed what happened and expanded possibilities to research and learn about transformation through heightening participants' awareness about possibilities for change and developing interventions to improve learning.