Practitioners are supposed to constitute the major part of educational researchers together with theoreticians.How-ever,the social division of labor has caused practitioners to lose their voices in educational research.This study treated ten practi-tioners with extensive research experience as the research subjects,and an autobiographical method was adopted to explore their experiences in conducting educational research.The research logic of the educational practitioners consisted of three spiraling stages,including"developing a desire for research in confusion","expressing the research proces...