Thoughts from the Initial Chapter of Carspecken

In my vision of this dissertation, I envisioned it as a piece of critical research. Critical research as it is commonly explained as research that deals with an oppressed class, the nature of the power structures that keep the oppression in place and the avenues of empowerment available to that class. In my vision and experience, the teacher in the American public school system is increasingly an oppressed class, robbed of its creativity and professionalism by the demands of a system with a reactionary power structure meant to preserve the culture and methods of an industrial age school system. In developing methods, I delved into Carspecken's Critical Ethnography in Educational Research.