Action Research Jessica Darinka Marrufo Mercado Action Research

Action Research Jessica Darinka Marrufo Mercado

Action Research § “Action Research is part of a broad movement that has been going on in education generally for some time. It is related to the ideas of ‘reflective practice’ and ‘the teacher as researcher’. AR involves taking a selfreflective, critical, and systematic approach to exploring your own teaching contexts. ” § Burns (2010, p. 2)

Action Research § “In AR, a teacher becomes an ‘investigator’ or ‘explorer’ of his or her personal teaching context, while at the same time being one of the participants in it. ” § “So, one of the main aims of AR is to identify a ‘problematic’ situation or issue that the participants – who may include teachers, students, managers, administrators, or even parents – consider worth looking into more deeply and systematically. ” § Burns (2010, p. 2)

Action Research § “The central idea of the action part of AR is to intervene in a deliberate way in the problematic situation in order to bring about changes and, even better, improvements in practice. ” § Burns (2010, p. 2)

Steps in action research § At the simplest level, therefore, action research involves a spiral or cycle of planning, action, observation, and reflection.

Planning § “In this phase you identify a problem or issue and develop a plan of action in order to bring about improvements in a specific area of the research context. ” § Burns (2010, p. 8)

Action § “The plan is a carefully considered one which involves some deliberate interventions into your teaching situation that you put into action over an agreed period of time. The interventions are ‘critically informed’ as you question your assumptions about the current situation and plan new and alternative ways of doing things. ” § Burns (2010, p. 8)

Observation § “This phase involves you in observing systematically the effects of the action and documenting the context, actions and opinions of those involved. It is a data collection phase where you use ‘open-eyed’ and ‘open-minded’ tools to collect information about what is happening. ” § Burns (2010, p. 8)

Reflection § “At this point, you reflect on, evaluate and describe the effects of the action in order to make sense of what has happened and to understand the issue you have explored more clearly. . ” § Burns (2010, p. 8)

Real Action Research Projects § http: //centerx. gseis. ucla. edu/principal-leadership/fw-examples/meise/projectwebpages/project-6 -action-research-project-problem-based-learning-in-math § http: //www. edutopia. org/knowledge-in-action-PBL-research

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