2011
DOI: 10.1080/09650792.2011.547688
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Collaborative action research approaches promoting professional development for elementary school teachers

Abstract: Action research in classrooms can be challenging for novice teacher researchers. This paper reports on a study involving eight action research teacher teams. Analysis of the teams as they conducted action research resulted in the identification of three collaborative action research approaches promoting professional development. The findings showed that collaborative engagement of teachers in these approaches was influenced by three factors -time to engage and collaborate, workload, and group dynamics -and tha… Show more

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“…e-ISSN: 1989-9289 68 puede contribuir al desarrollo del pensamiento crítico por parte del alumnado. La investigación se fundamentó en los principios de la investigación naturalista e interpretativa, en contextos reales (Barton, 2006) mediante el método de la investigación colaborativa (Miskovic y Hoop, 2006;Jaipal y Figg, 2011;Ducharme et al, 2011). Se optó por este método porque permite trabajar en contextos reales de aula, con profesorado en activo, y conseguir resultados complejos e imprevisibles.…”
Section: Una Investigación Sobre El Desarrollo Del Pensamiento Críticunclassified
“…e-ISSN: 1989-9289 68 puede contribuir al desarrollo del pensamiento crítico por parte del alumnado. La investigación se fundamentó en los principios de la investigación naturalista e interpretativa, en contextos reales (Barton, 2006) mediante el método de la investigación colaborativa (Miskovic y Hoop, 2006;Jaipal y Figg, 2011;Ducharme et al, 2011). Se optó por este método porque permite trabajar en contextos reales de aula, con profesorado en activo, y conseguir resultados complejos e imprevisibles.…”
Section: Una Investigación Sobre El Desarrollo Del Pensamiento Críticunclassified
“…Not only did action research provide the professionals with an opportunity to research, reflect upon and change their everyday practice, they simultaneously accomplished this change while developing collaborative competencies. This finding is significant because there is substantial literature to support that teachers believe that their practice is more deeply influenced by the action research process compared with other professional development training (Jaipal and Figg 2011;López-Pastor, Monjas, and Manrique 2011) but there is little research to show the benefits of the same in an interprofessional context (Watts and Jones 2000).…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 84%
“…Research into action is useful because it includes exceptions to teaching more effectively, deepens, broadens the teacher's understanding of the work they do. Action research is used as the development of teacher professionalism in the teaching and learning process (Jaipal Figg, 2011). The teacher occupies a strategic position having professionalism competencies (UUD No.…”
Section: Action Researchmentioning
confidence: 99%