Elaine Wilson Action Research

Start End 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 judgements Knowledge in action Reflective judgements Knowledge of action Deliberative Judgements Knowledge 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