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 cycle

 

- identify an area of practice to be investigated

- imagine a solution

- implement the solution

- evaluate the solution

- change practice in light of the evaluation …

- ... the cycle gets restarted

 

Let's concentrate on the second stage.

What solution(s) would you envisage for the problem you identified (see 8)?

 

Web pages for further exploration

http://www.sitesupport.org/actionresearch/sitemap.shtml
http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/gcm/ar/arp/guide.html

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