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Working as facilitators and co-researchers: opportunities, tensions and complexities in educational participatory research Educational Action Research Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Carmen Martinez-Vargas, Mikateko Mathebula, F. Melis Cin, Faith Mkwananzi
In this paper, we transcend the boundaries of conventional academic writing and embrace the African philosophical concept of conversationalism to create an honest and decolonial space, albeit imper...
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Taproot, rhizome, disappointment, possibility: action research with(in) sociomaterial perspectives Educational Action Research Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Cameron W. Smith
Inspired by the question ‘how might we do Action Research differently?’, this article provides an introductory diffractive mapping of the concepts and empirical studies intersecting Action Research...
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Student-driven teaching and educational action research combined: an approach to teaching development and student empowerment Educational Action Research Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Holen Rasa, S. Gjøtterud, T. C. Selsaas, M. S. Helvig
This paper presents an action research study in a student-driven context at a university. The study focused on students organizing and leading workshops for other students. We aimed to support stud...
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A study of the teaching of action research in an online setting Educational Action Research Pub Date : 2024-03-31 Stephanie A. Arthur, Allan Feldman
The combination of the COVID-19 pandemic and the rapid improvement in virtual communication provided the opportunity to examine the efficacy of teaching a graduate seminar on action research (AR) i...
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Professional development through collaborative action research for early career academics - a collaborative auto-ethnography during the COVID-19 pandemic Educational Action Research Pub Date : 2024-03-31 Dongmei Li, Lauren Bliss, Laura Henderson, Paige Clark
Early career academics (ECAs) constitute a significant part of the teaching responsibilities in higher education. However, ECAs, especially those employed on sessional or fixed-term contracts are p...
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Exploring the relationship between legislative theatre and critical participatory action research Educational Action Research Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Bartłomiej Bodziński-Guzik, Rafał Stożek
In this paper, we argue that Legislative Theatre processes, as presented by Boal in his book Legislative Theatre: Using Performance to Make Politics and initially implemented in Rio de Janeiro in 9...
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A Feminist Activist Research to mainstream awareness of gender-related violence in universities through photovoice Educational Action Research Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Barbara Biglia, Aloe Cubero, Alejandra Araiza
Sexual and gender-related violences (SeGReV) is more normalised in the university community than we might expect, even though there have been important changes in HEI politics and policies in this ...
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Student activists for racially equitable change: lessons for higher education leaders from a critical participatory action research project Educational Action Research Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Brandy S. Bryson, Mariah E. Webber
Student activists, and particularly student activists of Color, have contributed significantly to campus change movements for decades. Yet resistance to student activism from higher education leade...
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Collaboration and co-creation in autism research: a reflection on the challenges and benefits of participatory approaches in doctoral research Educational Action Research Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Ellen Taylor-Bower, Kate Plaisted-Grant, Stephanie Archer
Drawing upon ongoing research exploring lived experiences of sensory overload, meltdown, and shutdown in autism as a framework, this article reflects on the challenges and benefits of employing par...
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Devised theatre methodology to promote creativity in school Educational Action Research Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Camilla Steine Munk, Yngve Antonsen, Svein-Erik Andreassen
This study examines the use of a devised theatre methodology to develop more creativity in the professional learning community and among students. Data from focus groups in an action research proje...
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A square peg in a round hole: reflecting on using a participatory health research approach during my PhD Educational Action Research Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Meghan Gilfoyle
When reflecting on my years as a doctoral student, I recall several questions that often came to mind throughout my journey: what is participatory health research? Is such an approach to research t...
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Implementing action research to improve L2 classroom communication patterns: a grounded theory analysis approach Educational Action Research Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Mansoor Tavakoli, Saeedeh Kavoshian
The purpose of this paper is two-fold: it begins by exploring communication patterns in Iranian second language (L2) classrooms, then describes the implementation of action research in two differen...
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Democratic pedagogies in initial teacher education: co-constructing a supportive learning framework Educational Action Research Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Susan Raymond, Shaan Gilson, Rohan Ball
Initial teacher education programs in Australia require all preservice teachers to complete a mandated teaching performance assessment. This places significant performative pressure on preservice t...
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The transformative power of action research Educational Action Research Pub Date : 2024-02-25 Columbia Embury Dusty
Published in Educational Action Research: Connecting Research and Practice for Professionals and Communities (Vol. 32, No. 2, 2024)
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Teacher practitioner enquiry: a process for developing teacher learning and practice? Educational Action Research Pub Date : 2024-02-10 Brian Marsh, Mark Deacon
This article reports the impact of teachers undertaking practitioner enquiry projects as part of their professional development. This was a longitudinal study situated across five different schools...
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Using a theory of change approach to support teachers’ action research inquiries Educational Action Research Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Kirstin Kerr
Engaging teachers in action research (AR) in their own classrooms has long been established as a means to support their professional development and the quality of their practice. Yet it also prese...
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The role of ‘friendship as method’ with child co-researchers in the primary school environment Educational Action Research Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Holly Bennion, Nikki Rutter
Within social science research the complex nature of relationship-making and ‘friendship as method’ has gained enthusiasm. However, there is still a significant lack of research on ‘friendship as m...
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Involving students as collaborators in developing learning materials through action research Educational Action Research Pub Date : 2024-01-27 Rida Afrilyasanti, Yazid Basthomi, Eko Suhartoyo
This study focuses on English as a foreign language (EFL) students’ involvement in a school’s action research (AR) project. The study aims to demonstrate how students develop their communication, i...
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There’s ‘learning in that struggle’: journey mindsets and agency in action research and culturally responsive education Educational Action Research Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Elizabeth Severson-Irby, Hillary Parkhouse, Erin Drulis, Robyn Lyn
Working with ethnoracially diverse student groups is a reality in most K-12 classrooms. However, studies of the impacts of professional development for cultural responsiveness have tended to use a ...
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Exploring the foundations Educational Action Research Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Colleen McLaughlin
Published in Educational Action Research: Connecting Research and Practice for Professionals and Communities (Vol. 32, No. 1, 2024)
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Student participation in teachers’ action research: teachers’ and students’ engagement in social learning Educational Action Research Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Peter Johannesson
In the literature on professional learning communities, students are rarely considered participants. Research indicates that student participation is primarily designated as a ‘data source’, with s...
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YPAR and powerful partnerships for change: reconceptualisations of youth-led participatory action research and catalytic validity Educational Action Research Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Martin Cummings
Youth-led participatory action research (YPAR) empowers children and young people to platform their capability to create knowledge based on their lived experiences. It is this insider knowledge of ...
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How to identify actions to improve in the practices of a professional learning community: a study of an action research project Educational Action Research Pub Date : 2023-12-26 Jaana Nehez
This article presents an action research project conducted in a Swedish compulsory school. In the project the participants explored ways of identifying actions to improve in the practices of a prof...
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An analysis of prospective primary school teachers’ action research: the case of Lithuania Educational Action Research Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Daiva Jakavonytė-Staškuvienė, Linas Jašinauskas, Jolita Kudinovienė
Lithuanian education policy recommends organizing pupils’ learning based on research. Action research allows teachers to identify problems in educational practices and discover appropriate solution...
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Developing student-researchers in primary schools through inclusive inquiry Educational Action Research Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Kyriaki Messiou, Amy Lowe
This paper argues that more should be done to draw on the views of children and young people when using collaborative action research to promote inclusion in schools. Drawing on the findings of a c...
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Editorial: (Re)searching for integrity Educational Action Research Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Andy Convery
Published in Educational Action Research: Connecting Research and Practice for Professionals and Communities (Vol. 31, No. 5, 2023)
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“Mainstreaming action research”: Olav Eikeland’s legacy for our shared future Educational Action Research Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Davydd J. Greenwood, Lars Klemsdal, Johan Elvemo Ravn, Julie Borup Jensen
Published in Educational Action Research: Connecting Research and Practice for Professionals and Communities (Vol. 31, No. 5, 2023)
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What do we know about the selection of action research methodologies in primary science education? – A systematic literature review Educational Action Research Pub Date : 2023-09-28 Muhammad Zulfadhli Kamarudin, Mohd Syafiq Aiman Mat Noor
Since the development of the notion of the teacher-researcher, a range of published action research studies have focused on school-based pedagogy. Scholars agree that action research is an essentia...
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The influence of critical friendships on secondary student teachers engaged in collaborative action research Educational Action Research Pub Date : 2023-09-26 Brenda M. Capobianco, Veronica McCauley, Paul Flynn
In this study, we explore the following: a) How do secondary student teachers, engaged in collaborative action research, function as critical friends? b) What challenges do they encounter? How do t...
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Bringing utopian visioning to educational leadership: participatory action research as professional learning Educational Action Research Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Miriam Raider-Roth, Mindy M. Gold, Gail Dorph, Mel Berwin, Sarah Clarkson, Ilana Gelemovich, Merissa Rosetti
This article describes the Future Creating Workshop (FCW) and explores how it can create learning forums for participatory leadership. We investigate how FCW can be an effective form of professiona...
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“But once I did it, it was incredible”: practitioner action researchers’ experiences of transcription and using transcripts Educational Action Research Pub Date : 2023-09-13 Christina Davidson, Christine Edwards-Groves
ABSTRACT Predominant patterns of classroom interaction are notoriously difficult to change. This article examines teachers’ use of transcription and transcripts as methods for enabling changes to classroom interaction practices over the course of action research projects in primary school classrooms. We employ thematic analysis of interviews with 12 teachers and delineate four themes addressing teachers’
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Participatory and critical action research Educational Action Research Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Allan Feldman
Published in Educational Action Research: Connecting Research and Practice for Professionals and Communities (Vol. 31, No. 4, 2023)
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Editorial Educational Action Research Pub Date : 2023-08-13 Andrew Townsend
Published in Educational Action Research: Connecting Research and Practice for Professionals and Communities (Vol. 31, No. 3, 2023)
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“A little bit fun, a little bit frustrating:” utilizing photovoice to document university student responsibility during a global pandemic Educational Action Research Pub Date : 2023-08-06 Britteny M. Howell, Sara L. Buckingham, Carrie King, Terrence Kelly
ABSTRACT Photovoice is a popular visual participatory action research method for participants to identify strengths and opportunities for change in their community by taking, discussing, and displaying photographs. Although Photovoice has been used in educational research, the literature of its use in higher education in the U.S. is limited and individual participant experiences with Photovoice projects
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The significance of children’s olfactory experiences in a Norwegian kindergarten: an olfactory researcher-practitioner collaboration Educational Action Research Pub Date : 2023-08-04 Natalia Kucirkova, Monika Kamola
ABSTRACT This study is a researcher-practitioner action inquiry which was used to explore children’s sensory experiences with a focus on the sense of smell (olfaction). We critically considered the early childhood theories that positioned children's sensory learning within equitable, socially just early childhood approaches and connected them to an action inquiry approach. The data comprise a systematic
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Participatory pedagogies enhance engineering education for sustainability Educational Action Research Pub Date : 2023-08-02 Lake Sagaris, Javier Peñafiel, Romina Orellana, María Fernanda Guajardo
ABSTRACT Using a survey, interviews, and reflections by the teaching-research team, we explored the effects of almost a decade of experimentation, inspired by Freire’s pedagogy for liberation, which applied participatory action research in engineering courses and in cities to develop professionals who are more committed to sustainability and more able to interact with ‘ordinary’ citizens in all their
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‘I realised it when we played with the doll!’: nursing students’ learning from participation in an action research project that included manikins Educational Action Research Pub Date : 2023-08-01 Jorunn Aas Handeland, Andreas Prinz, Else Mari Ruberg Ekra, Mariann Fossum
ABSTRACT This qualitative educational action research study aimed to gain knowledge about nursing students’ learning from participating in a developmental project that included human-like manikins. Twenty-three second-year Bachelor of Nursing students, one teacher, and one researcher participated in the study conducted at a Norwegian university. In collaboration, they planned and executed a developmental
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Puzzle identification in action research in initial teacher education Educational Action Research Pub Date : 2023-07-19 Mónica Stella Cárdenas Claros, Ximena Paola Buendía Arias, Kimberley Dassonvalle
ABSTRACT The identification of suitable topics in action research can be challenging due to the complex nature of the educational context and the diverse factors that influence problem identification processes. This qualitative multi-case study explores problem identification among pre-service teachers involved in action research (AR). Twenty-nine participants (pre-service teachers, university-based
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The 7 C’s framework for participatory action research: inducting novice participant-researchers Educational Action Research Pub Date : 2023-07-12 Angela Feekery
ABSTRACT A key aspect of engaging in a large participatory action research (PAR) project is ensuring that novice participant-researchers have a general understanding of the PAR methodology. Lead researchers experienced in action research cannot expect novice participant-researchers to engage fully with the literature on PAR, but rather need a simple way to ensure their collaborative partners understand
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Leading with care: four mentor metaphors in collaboration between teachers and researchers in action research (Translated from the Swedish and revised by the authors) Educational Action Research Pub Date : 2023-07-02 Ulrika Bergmark, Ann-Charlotte Dahlbäck, Anna-Karin Hagström, Sara Viklund
ABSTRACT Mentoring is a central aspect of action research processes and raises ethical issues concerning roles and responsibilities, particularly when teachers and researchers collaborate. The purpose of the study is to explore mentoring and the roles of mentors in action research from an ethical stance. The theoretical basis is the philosophy of care ethics developed by the American educational philosopher
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Using cooperative learning strategy to increase undergraduate students’ engagement and performance Educational Action Research Pub Date : 2023-07-02 Andargachew Moges Agonafir
In the 21st century, preparing university students for real work and lifelong learning requires instructors to serve as facilitators of learning rather than as providers of information. Instruction...
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A culturally relevant action research model for Bhutanese secondary science teachers Educational Action Research Pub Date : 2023-06-30 Tshewang Rabgay, Gillian Kidman
ABSTRACT Action research has gained widespread recognition as a tool to improve teaching practices in many countries, and action research based on Kemmis and McTaggart’s model was recently introduced in Bhutan to raise teaching quality. This study explored how Bhutanese secondary science teachers carried out the process of action research and the factors which supported or constrained them. Focusing
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How can practitioner action research support the design, implementation, and evaluation of on-campus mental health and addiction services? Educational Action Research Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Sarah Pennisi, Anna Lathrop, Kelly A. Pilato
ABSTRACT In every sector, the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of mental health resources for wellbeing. Although scholars have long recognized the interdependent relationship between academic success and positive mental health, research that can be used to guide mental health service design and delivery in post-secondary institutions is relatively unexplored. Further, the experiences
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Correction Educational Action Research Pub Date : 2023-06-11
Published in Educational Action Research: Connecting Research and Practice for Professionals and Communities (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Collaborative qualitative research Educational Action Research Pub Date : 2023-06-02 Martin Cummings, Fatma Poyraz Ciddi
Published in Educational Action Research: Connecting Research and Practice for Professionals and Communities (Vol. 32, No. 1, 2024)
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Learning and the ‘change enterprise’: inclusion and ambivalences in an educational action research and development project Educational Action Research Pub Date : 2023-05-27 Katharina Zangerle
ABSTRACT Educational action research in development projects applies participative methods to include people with diverse backgrounds, experiencing learning collaboratively. In this article, I explore the learning activities, and their outcomes, unfolding in those settings. Based on project documents, 34 interviews with project staff and smallholder farmers, and participant observations for three months
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Nursing students’ experiences as academic and linguistic mentors – Practical participation-based action research Educational Action Research Pub Date : 2023-05-18 Liv Helene Jensen, Hjørdis Frisnes, Cathrine Atundi Sødal, Marthe Lyngås Eklund, Beate Lie Sverre
ABSTRACT Student mentoring is increasingly visible in professional practice, and in recent years, universities have integrated peer mentoring across different programs. To provide student mentors with appropriate support and contribute to the future development and success of student mentoring, it is necessary to investigate not only the benefits afforded to mentees but also student mentors’ perceptions
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Developing a school-based nutrition education programme to transform the nutritional behaviours of basic-level schoolchildren: a case from participatory action research in Nepal Educational Action Research Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Yadu R. Upreti, Bhimsen Devkota, Sheri Bastien, Bal Chandra Luitel
ABSTRACT Nutrition education at school can contribute to developing healthy nutritional behaviours in schoolchildren. This paper critically reflects on how participatory action research (PAR) empowered university researchers and a school community to co-develop a school-based nutrition education programme (SBNEP) that promotes healthy nutritional behaviours in basic-level schoolchildren (Grades 1–8)
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‘Annoying but helpful…’: Action Research Examining Secondary Students’ Active Reading of Assigned Texts Educational Action Research Pub Date : 2023-05-08 Erin Nerlino
ABSTRACT Despite the value of reading, research documents declining reading rates among American adolescents – a decline that exacerbates student dropout rates and academic performance. As a high school English teacher in a public, regional, suburban school, increasing the number of students who deeply read the assigned texts for class has been a career-long focus. Therefore, one of my goals for the
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Building the comprehensive educator research program: action research as a vehicle for empowerment, growth, and professionalization in K12 schools Educational Action Research Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Michelle Vaughan, Tricia Meredith, Agnes Timar, Melissa Mariani, Elisa Calabrese
ABSTRACT This article presents findings from a four-year collaboration focused on building the research capacity of educators at a university laboratory school. The Comprehensive Educator Research Program (CERP) intentionally builds the research capacity of educators, leadership, and counselors throughout the school using action research within their own practice. The foundational principles of the
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(En)action research: practice transformation through processes of participatory sense-making in educational action research Educational Action Research Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Kasper Lasthein Madsen, Ole Lund, Jens-Ole Jensen
ABSTRACT Scholars regard educational action research as contributing to change and developing sustainable teaching practices. The theoretical framework revolves around the idea that changes stem from human actions and draws inspiration from several philosophical traditions. However, the dynamo of transformation in the different approaches is generally a systematic self-reflective inquiry. In this study
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‘It wasn’t adults and young people […] we’re all in it together’: co-designing a post-secondary transition program through youth participatory action research Educational Action Research Pub Date : 2023-04-19 Carla Luguetti, Juliana Ryan, Bill Eckersley, Amy Howard, Sarah Buck, Aisha Osman, Chloe Hansen, Patrick Galati, Robinson Jack Cahill, Sarah Craig, Claire Brown
ABSTRACT This paper aims to contribute fresh insights into youth participatory action research (YPAR) by using bell hooks’ engaged pedagogy to illuminate the process of co-designing a program for transition beyond secondary school. Engaged pedagogy is a critical pedagogy that combines critical consciousness and radical wholeness and seeks to foster a learning community. The 10-week YPAR included six
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Youth participatory action research: schooling, learning, and entangled lines of flight Educational Action Research Pub Date : 2023-04-02 Thomas Albright
ABSTRACT This article focuses on an out-of-school youth participatory action research project to better understand both how schooling emerged and was challenged in a liberatory space. This project explores the entanglement of schooling, learning, and youth in a youth participatory action research (YPAR) setting. There were six youth and one academic researcher involved in the project which spanned
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Editorial Educational Action Research Pub Date : 2023-03-30 Franz Rauch
Published in Educational Action Research: Connecting Research and Practice for Professionals and Communities (Vol. 31, No. 2, 2023)
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An action research evaluation using films in a workshop for nursing clinical educators Educational Action Research Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Colleen Ryan, Margaret McAllister, Craig Batty, Robert Vanderburg
ABSTRACT Clinical nurse educators within Queensland, Australia, tend to be selected for the job based on their clinical expertise and consequently may lack knowledge of educational theories and practices. Within the Nursing School in which this project was based, there is interest in developing expertise in Transformative Learning theory. To share this knowledge with clinical educators, a workshop
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Action research in initial EFL teacher education: emerging insights from a CAR project Educational Action Research Pub Date : 2023-03-07 Eda Ceylan, Irem Comoglu
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to explore what insights pre-service EFL teachers developed through engaging in a collaborative action research (CAR) project which was embedded into an e-practicum course in Turkey. Using a qualitative holistic single-case study design, this study involved seven fourth-year pre-service teachers at a state university in the west of Turkey during the 2020–2021 academic
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Editorial Educational Action Research Pub Date : 2023-03-05 Tina Cook
Published in Educational Action Research: Connecting Research and Practice for Professionals and Communities (Vol. 31, No. 1, 2023)
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Action research in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Educational Action Research Pub Date : 2023-03-05 Neil Hunt, Sahbi Hidri, Phil Quirke
Published in Educational Action Research: Connecting Research and Practice for Professionals and Communities (Vol. 31, No. 1, 2023)
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Supporting school leaders in leading school development: an action research project Educational Action Research Pub Date : 2023-03-02 Lena Abrahamsen, Marit Aas
ABSTRACT School leadership and school development are tightly connected and significant to improve students’ learning. The latter requires leaders with knowledge about leading change and school development, and in such, coaching can contribute to enhance leadership capacity. This study focuses on school leadership groups taking part in an action research project in a Norwegian municipality where local
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Action research with projects to facilitate students to study research and prepare research proposals during the Covid-19 pandemic Educational Action Research Pub Date : 2023-02-26 Hasianna Nopina Situmorang, Freddy Tua Musa Panggabean, Manihar Situmorang
Knowledge and skills in the field of research are key requirements for the successful completion of studies for students, including prospective teachers. However, the outbreak of the COVID-19 coron...