1950’s Civil Rights Movement A Jack Marty and Paul Elliott Presentation.
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What is good action research?Reflections on Elliott's – What is Good Action
Research?
By W.P.N Pietrek
The Main features
• Pedagogical aim and ideal to which all participants are committed to realising in practice
• The changing of practice to reflect the pedagogical aim
• Gathering of evidence
• Awareness of inconsistencies between aspiration and practice problematises the assumptions and beliefs which underpin practice in classrooms
• The testing of new approaches to realise aspirations which will in turn reconstruct theories and guide future practice
• Teacher reflexivity
• The essence of good action research is identifying an issue and developing responses to address it in practice.
• A key test of the effectiveness of action research – 'does it improve interaction between teacher and pupil?'
• If there is no evidence that research is bringing about positive changes to practice, then it is dubious that it is effective action research – effective action research should "fuse teaching and research into a singular activity".
Impact on the curriculum
• Effective action research should impact upon the curriculum:• It should examine how content within subjects is best delivered
• Always consider how your subject is best articulated
Where does the data come from?
• Action research needs to be reflexive as well as reflective.
• Data needs to come from a wide range of perspectives:• Teachers' own accounts of their practice
• Students' accounts of their teachers' practice
• Peer observations
• Outsiders' observational accounts of their children's experiences
• Video and audio recordings of interactions between teachers and pupils