Action Research

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Action Research

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Action Research is a method of systematic enquiry that teachers undertake as researchers of their own practice. As an action researcher , or teacher-researcher , you will generate research. Enquiring into your practice will inevitably lead you to question the assumptions and values that are often overlooked during the course of normal school life. Assuming the habit of inquiry can become an ongoing commitment to learning and developing as a practitioner.

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People and expertise o We have highly experienced educationalists and researchers who are able to support with school and classroom based action research. This support can take a range of forms from whole school teaching team presentations on Action Research to individual mentoring with classroom projects. To found that setting up small, collaborative working groups is both supportive and effective .

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Dr Malcolm Reed  approaches and theoretical frameworks for researching classroom activity,  observation as method,  different ways of writing on qualitative research. Previously an English teacher and PGCE tutor, Malcolm Reed teaches and supervises extensively on doctoral programmes in the fields of sociocultural theory and narrative research, writes about classroom culture from both standpoints, and is President of the International Society for Cultural and Activity Research (ISCAR). His work with Action Research includes:

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Starting out  come to facilitate a staff meeting as a one-off prompt to start a project;  help you to design and undertake a research enquiry;  visit your school on a regular basis to support a collaborative working group. When schools are starting out on action research we are happy to tailor our Continuing Professional Development offering to focus on supporting teachers and allied education professionals to develop as action researchers. We can also award credit for educational research work under our advanced offering of postgraduate, professional development programmes. In the first instance a member of staff at the School of Education can:

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Action research at master's and doctoral level The following routes into advanced study are available: Master's - this is a one year full-time or three to five year part-time taught programme. Doctoral - we offer study at doctoral both through individual research for a PhD and through the largely taught EdD programme. Action Research is a regular feature of both doctoral programmes.

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Case studies • The key feature common to all Action Research projects is that it involves practitioner researchers planning for and reflecting on the outcomes of a change in their practice in an ongoing cycle of plan-act-reflect. Some examples follow: • Piloting research with a local secondary school to explore through observation the activity of learners’ non-compliance. • Using a Participatory Action Research approach to develop therapeutic interventions for young people who experience social and emotional difficulties in a secondary school. • Supporting a collaborative group of mathematics teachers working on a module as part of a research project into widening participation in higher education. • Using an ethnographic approach to investigate the ways in which teachers’ use the multilingual and multicultural resources of migrant children and their families as assets for learning in school.

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