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Action Research and Professional Development

Personal knowledge is the most precious gift in the life of a (wo)man.Polanyi (1958, 1975). Outline of session. Pair work activity Action Research cycle What is Action Research? Context: Developing teaching and learning Methodologies Kemmis Whitehead Case study Web resources an

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Action Research and Professional Development

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    1. Action Research and Professional Development Margaret Farren Computer Applications Dublin City University Presentation to Masters in ICT in Education, Trinity College, Dublin. February 2002

    2. Personal knowledge is the most precious gift in the life of a (wo)man. Polanyi (1958, 1975)

    3. Outline of session Pair work activity Action Research cycle What is Action Research? Context: Developing teaching and learning Methodologies Kemmis Whitehead Case study Web resources and bibliography

    4. Pair work Part one: One person talk to partner about something in your teaching practice that you have worked on to improve. Other person listens to see if they can understand what the values are that are motivating them to improve. Feedback from pair work.

    5. Pair work Part two Focus on claims made about improvement. Focus on kind of data required to enable you to make a judgement on the effectiveness of the actions taken.

    6. What is Action Research? Practitioner based research Systematic enquiry made public Improving student learning Developing teacher as learner Enquiry made public Values/criteria in Action Research

    7. Why do Action Research? Living our values/criteria in our professional practice � you need to be clear about what you are doing and why your are doing it. Empowering us as teachers to bring about improvement. (Praxis versus techne.) Teaching as a form of enquiry, leading to knowledge and understanding of practice. Developing awareness of practice by being critical of practice. Helping to bring about a more participatory/collaborative view of teaching and learning.

    8. Kemmis model

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