Zusammenfassung der Ressource
ACTION RESEARCH
- Conducts research and acts at the same
time. It was established in 1944 by MIT
professor Kurt Lewin.A
- Types of
action
research
- Participatory
action research:
emphasizes that
participants should
be members of the
community being
studied.
- Example: action
research for study
how could establish
tourism nature in the
four islands of
Windward Caribbean:
Santa Lucia, Grenada,
Dominica and San
Vincent.
- Practical action
research: focuses
more on how
research is
conducted and is
designed to
address and solve
specific issues.
- Education: - Efficacy
of technology in
enhancing student
learning outcomes.
- ACTION RESEARCH MODELS
- Operational Action Research
- Characterized by its
practical and
action-oriented
approach, it involves
relevant actors.
- Collaborating Action Research
- It highlights active
participation and
collaboration between all
those involved.
- Critical Reflection
- It involves examining our
own experiences, beliefs,
and assumptions.
- Action Research Purpose
- Solve immediate problems.
- Improve existing systems
- Advantages in action Research
- highly adaptable.
- Immediate and actionable path.
- Can be very empowering
- Disadvantages of action research
- Are plagued by very limited
generalizability and are very
difficulty to replicate
- Complicated to structure in an
ethical manner
- High risk for research biases
- Action Research in Education
- it is a form of systematic inquiry
because it priorizes reflection and
bridges the gap between theory and
practice
- A cicle of inquiry
- It is usually visualized in a spiral shape
following a series of steps, such as
“planning → acting → observing →
reflecting.”
- Action Research is
conducted in order to
solve a aparticular issue
immediately while case
studies are often takes
longer