ABSTRACT
This chapter suggests ways of interpreting others research encountered in the literature as well as offering support and encouragement for those embarking on their own reading research. The British Educational Research Association (BERA) and the Royal Society for the Arts (RSA) published a report which offers a clear message: Research and the Teaching Profession: Building the Capacity for a Self-improving Education System. A very important reason for teachers to be both reading and undertaking research is that active engagement in research themselves gives them a firm position from which to review other people's research and exercise discrimination rather than adopt ideas uncritically. One particular reason for teachers to undertake such research is because the process may help them develop their pedagogy and hence make a difference to their student's learning. Theoretical perspectives are adopted deliberately and overtly by researchers, as compared with ontological and epistemological stances which tend to be more subliminal.
