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What is Research?
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Elaine Wilson
Action Research
What is research? What is action research? Big Questions?
Validity of Action
Research
What is Research?
Make it so
What is Action Research?
What if you want to do more than produce
knowledge?
What if your goals are to go beyond
evidence and recommendations?
What if your research goals include doing,
shifting, changing or
implementing?
Action Research tackles real world problems in a participatory and collaborative way in order to produce action and knowledge in an integrated fashion through a cyclical process. Process, outcome, and application are inextricably linked
Intuitive judgementsKnowledge in action
Reflective judgements
Knowledge of action
Deliberative JudgementsKnowledge for action
Action Research is a philosophical
perspective which links the production of
knowledge with action to effect change
and also examines the underlying assumptions and priorities
Reflexivity is an interactive process ……
which takes into consideration the relationship between teacher, students and learning
that shape interaction within a given time, place and situation.
Knowledge
Practice based knowledge
Changing how we think Changing what we do
Changing how we relate
Changing practice
Final Thoughts
Educational researchers want to change educational practitioners practice so they will conform with educational theorists theories about how practice should be conducted
Theorist theories are formed by their way of doing research
Practitioner theoretical findings are formed by their way of doing
Action Research gives practitioners intellectual and moral control over their practice
So we need to do this rigorously