action research
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Origin and FounderKurt Lewin is generally considered
the ‘father’ of action research, first coined the term “action research” in 1944.
A German social and experimental psychologist, and one of the founders of the Gestalt school,
He was concerned with social problems, focused on participative group processes for addressing conflict, crises, and change, generally within organizations.
“Inquiry or research in the context of focused efforts to improve the quality of an organization and its performance.”
Action research is known by many other names;
Participatory Research, Collaborative Inquiry, Emancipatory Research, Action Learning, And Contextual Action Research
but all are variations on a theme.
As You Implement the Plan . . .
Control the progress
Collect the data (evidence)
Present periodic reports
In a nutshell . . .
1.Stimulate Learning and
2.Make a Difference.
Action Research seeks to accomplish two goals:
What is Not Action Research?
It is not a library project where we learn more about a topic that interests us.
It is not about doing research on or about people, It involves people working to improve their skills, techniques, and strategies.
It is not about learning why we do certain things, It is about how we can change our instruction to impact students.
CharacteristicsUtility aspect of the people’s point of view.Produces knowledge to guide practice in modification.Action taking and evaluating.Collaboration between action and result.It modifies a given reality or develops a new system.Knowledge is generated, used, tested and modified in it.
The systematic efforts to gather information from various sources
that will help us identify the needs of victims in our
community to do research.
Needs Assessment
Objectives
School Improvement
Improvement in professional
practice
Provide opportunity for
faculty to research
Raise community engagement in
research
Encourage students to
research
Types of Action research
Contextual Action Research (Action
Learning)
Traditional Action Research
Educational Action
Research
Radical Action Research
Limitation
1.Lack of Time
2.Validity as Research
3.Unfamiliarity with Research methods
4.Action Research produces results which
are not Generalizable
5. Representations of the process of action
research may confuse, rather than
enlighten
6. The Rhetoric of Action Research may be
Confusing, or in contradiction with the
main principles of the process