A Comparison of Teacher Research and Qualitative Case Study Research

When looking back at their own classrooms carefully, teachers are likely to wonder about many issues and raise many questions. Such wonderings then lead to an inquiry for teacher research. Lankshear and Knobel (2004) define teacher research as “a systematic approach to studying teaching for the improvement of teaching and learning” (as cited in Castle, 2012, p. 3). Thus, the approach of teacher research makes a great contribution to the archive of educational research.