Online conferencing session
Action Research: Teacher as Researcher
Arnold Mühren


1. Action research - what is it?
2. Definitions "from the book"

3. Purpose of action research
4. Effects and benefits
5. Obstacles
6. Your own investigations thus far
7. Possible problem areas
8. A specific problem
9. Action research cycle
10. Action research techniques
11. Enquiry made public
12. Follow-up activity?


Action research - what is it?

 

How would you define action research?
(if you are familiar with it)

What do you think action research is about?
(if you are not familiar with it, but might want to have a guess)


 

Web pages for further exploration

Action Research Resources
Action Research Electronic Reader

You may also want to check out who the following people were/are and what their contribution has been to the emergence of the action research and teacher-as-researcher movements.

Click on the picture for a start. A web search will yield more pages about them.


   

Kurt Lewin
(1890-1947)

Lawrence
Stenhouse
 
Donald Schön
(1930-1997)

This is a session within the framework of Prof. Dafne Gonzalez' Research Methods in Applied Linguistics course at Universidad Simon Bolivar, Caracas - Venue: alado.net/webheads - Date and Time: Tuesday 12 October 2004, 22:00 GMT