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Acting Introduction Slides: Focus areas: - Practitioner inquiry - Teaching as praxis - Professional knowledge Key words: - Practitioner inquiry; - practitioner research - Action research; - Teacher research;

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Reflective practice; Educational reform; Local knowledge

Key questions to consider: - Why might practitioners wish to engage in research? - Can practitioner inquiry contribute to improving educational opportunities for all? - How do institutional contexts enable and constrain practitioner inquiry? Questions to get going: - What is my concern? - Why am I concerned? - What do I think I can do about it? - What will I do? - How will I be able to show whether I am influencing the situation for good? - How will I judge whether any conclusions I come to are reasonably fair and accurate? - What will I do then? Why might practitioners want to do research? - An interest in knowing how students learn; - An interest in curriculum innovation; - A desire for change in one’s teaching; - A search for connections and meaning; - A concern for improving practice Types of action research: - Individual teacher research: usually focuses on a single issue in the classroom; - Collaborative action research: may include as few as two teachers or a group of several teachers and other interested in addressing in a classroom or department issue; - School-wide research: focuses on issue common to all Different paradigms and purposes for the research and action: - Technical: solving an immediate problem; - Practical/interpretive: a search for personal meaning; - Emancipatory/critical: building a more equitable and just system...