ROSS

ROSS' IDEAS

"Action research is used as a general term to describe processes of planning, transformation and evaluation which draw on insider practitioner inquiry and reflection." Action research. Developing inclusive practice and transforming cultures. By Felicity Armstrong and Michelle Moore. Published by Routledge Falmer, 2004.

"Action research is a way of aligning one's vision for education, ethics, and practice. It is never accepting that anything is impossible, and acting strategically and politically to make new alliances and gain leverage on their organizational inertia." Susan Noffke and Bridget Somekh. The Sage handbook of educational action research. Sage, 2009.

"Knowledge produced within the reflective rationalist approach (one vision of collaborative inquiry) ... is likely to fall under a constructivist paradigm, dependent upon the interpretations of individual practitioners and invariably local and particular to the situations within which it emerges." Mike Radford. Action research and the challenge of complexity. Published in the Cambridge Journal of Education, Vol. 37, No. 2, June 2007, pp 263-277

"Philosophical research is indispensable to educational action research not only because it can bring conceptual clarification, but also because it promises the reintroduction of normative enthusiasm and the belief in radical social transformation - to denouncement of the present and the announcement of a possible future." Philosophical research and educational action research. Marianna Papastephenou. Published in the Journal of Philosophy of Education, Vol. 40, No. 2, 2006. pp. 187-203

A thought struck me as I was doing some research on my own project: do Surrey teachers have access to the journal articles in SFU and UBC Libraries? Yes, through EBSCO, but I wonder how many teachers are aware of this.

May 4 - May the fourth be with you. Here's a link to a slideshow on a Teacher Inquiry project, and a list of other Inquiry links. Unfortunately the slideshow presents a project where a teacher worked by herself on a quantitative pre vs post comparison. It isn't very good in terms of modeling a collaborative project.

But some of the links that follow are broader in their exploration of Inquiry.

http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nelliemuller.com%2FAction_Research_Projects.htm?gname=LitwICT