Foreword: Authentic Inquiry: A Bold Vision for the Learning Sciences -- Foreword: Getting the Most from Difference -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Teacher Voices in Generating Theory -- The “Objectivity” of Research, Knowledge and Knowing -- Why Authentic Inquiry? -- Authentic Inquiry as a Construct for Sociocultural Research -- Reflexive Axiologies and Epistemologies -- Using This Primer -- Sociocultural Theory and Teaching and Learning -- What is Knowledge? -- Sociocultural Framework -- Social Interactions -- Sociocultural Research in Teacher Education -- Teachers and Research on Teaching -- Classroom Research -- Teacher Knowledge through Systematic Research -- Elements of a Sociocultural Research Framework -- Hermeneutic Phenomenology -- Epistemologies and Ontologies -- Axiology -- Criticality -- Bricolage -- Methodologies and Methods -- Authentic Inquiry Research -- Heuristics -- Authentic Inquiry Research Framework -- The Authentic Inquiry Heuristic -- Tensions, Ethics, Conflicts, and Vulnerabilities -- The Belmont Report -- Possible Tensions -- Research for Public Dissemination and the IRB -- Recruiting Our Students as Participants -- Benefits Versus Harm -- Consent Forms -- Some Additional Thoughts on IRBS -- Doing a Research Project -- Deciding and Selecting Participants -- Multi-Level Methods and Data Resources -- Choosing Research Questions -- A Framework for the Research -- Findings -- Generalizability -- Writing up an Informed Proposal for Your Research -- Doing Authentic Inquiry and Creating Interventions -- Writing up and Presenting Your Research -- Literature Review -- Manuscript or Thesis Component Descriptions -- Flow Chart -- Presentations -- Some Additional Suggestions -- My Beginnings as a Teacher Researcher: The Spring 2007 Research -- The 2007 Physics Class -- Spring 2012 Study (The “BC Study”) -- Challenges in Being Both the Principal Investigator and the Course Instructor -- Final Remarks -- Research as Transformative -- The Teaching Learning Researching Dialectic -- Practice Theory Dialectic in Writing This Book -- Transformations.