TY - JOUR PY - 2009// TI - Opening and closing communicative space with teachers investigating race and racism in their own practice JO - Action research A1 - Hyland, N. E. SP - 335 EP - 354 VL - 7 IS - 3 N2 - This article explores the very practical challenges that the author experienced as she and a racially mixed elementary school teaching staff negotiated communicative space within a critical inquiry group exploring race and racism in their teaching context. Specifically, the author explores her role of critical friend as crucial to forming communicative space; the ways that communicative space was contested and challenged within the critical inquiry group; and the new communicative spaces that arose from the original group. This article offers implications for action researchers attempting to create communicative spaces around difficult issues such as race and racism.

LA - SN - 1476-7503 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1476750309336717 ID - ref1 ER -