ABSTRACT
Teacher research has a major role to play in providing evidence to inform debate on the resultant educational issues and controversies at school, local and national level. The school also has an exclusions policy which involves consultations with parents and governors and, after a clearly set out sequence of procedures if the disruptive behaviour does not improve, leads to a child being excluded from school for a week or longer. Teacher research can be used both to devise new curricula based on the orders and to evaluate the pupils' experience of these once they are in place. Teacher research provides the possibility of gaining greater understanding of the factors constraining and promoting integration in all phases of education and of action research to develop new initiatives. Teacher research will always involve a process of sampling, since one cannot possibly study everything. It is therefore important to be clear as to the purposes of such sampling.
