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Action research: A powerful design

By Learning Forward
Categories: Learning designs
October 2016
Vol. 37 No. 5
In their chapter on action research in Powerful Designs for Professional Learning (Easton, 2015), Cathy Caro-Bruce and Mary Klehr describe a challenging issue that a teacher bravely takes on as an action research project. Using the classic steps for action research, she discovers what needs to be done, does it, and then reflects on and shares the results. The authors share strategies and techniques for making action research productive in today’s schools. Picture a spiral going around and around. Or a long mobile, spinning slowly in the breeze. Or a rare shell whose design conveys circular motions evolving over time. Or even a Möbius strip. These are all images of action research. Action research is an iterative form of inquiry through which participants actively engage

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References

Easton, L.B. (2015). Powerful designs for professional learning (3rd ed.). Oxford, OH: Learning Forward.

Watts, H. (1985, Spring). When teachers are researchers, teaching improves. Journal of Staff Development, 6(2), 118-127.

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