Action research

Action research

1. What is it?

   • Aims
     • Identifying and solving
       • Problematic situation
       • Issue
     • intervene
       • Action plan
     • bring changes
       • solid information
     • improvements in practice
       • theory
       • experience
       • hypothesis
     • AR may be:
       • means oriented
       • ends oriented
       • theory oriented
       • institution oriented
       • society oriented
       • teacher oriented
   • teacher as researcher
     • Teacher profile
       • Investigator
       • Participant
       • Explorer
     • Teaching contexts
       • Approaches
         • Critical
           • Questioning
           • problematizing
         • systematic
         • Self - reflective
           • New teaching

2. Why should we do it?

   • Research to
     • Confront reality
     • look for issues
       • Improvement - Solutions
         • Evolve
           • Personally
           • Classrooms

3. Steps

   • Kemmis & McTaggart's
     • Planning
     • Action
     • Observation
     • Reflection

4. AR vs other researches

   • Mckay & Wallace
     • Problem
     • Data
     • Analysis
   • Polanyi
     • Personal knowledge
   • Burns
     • Theory - practice

5. AR = reflecting teaching?

   • Reflecting experiences
     • Reflecting - IN - Action
     • Reflecting - ON - Action
   • Thinking and acting
     • Evaluation - Questioning - Empowering
   • Focus on needs

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