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