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Action Research Reports

Encouraging Reflective and Critical Thinking in the Context of a Literacy Program:
An Action-Research Exploration of Teaching and Learning in a Primary Classroom

 

by Jennifer Webster,
Upper Canada DSB

2003


This M.Ed. thesis, completed in 2003, reports an Action Research investigation set in the context of teaching literacy in a Grade 3 classroom. The study also explores the development of a learning community in which teachers can engage in professional development.

The Improvement of Student
and Teacher Learning

by Michael Prendergast, Principal,
Hastings-Prince Edward DSB

 

 

Ontario Principals Council Research Report, August 2002


 

The practice of action research is an alternative perspective of teachers being reflective learners who challenge the assumptions of the culture in our schools. What we have never learned to do in the teaching profession is to write and converse about our teaching and share our results with colleagues. Is it any wonder that we feel isolated and that we don't have a common culture of improving teaching quality? As an educator I feel I am a learner. It creates a messy and clouded view in the belief that learning and teaching are synonymous and occur simultaneously. To do action research successfully it must be built into system and school improvement frameworks that are well supported by administrators and funded with the necessary resources. Teachers and administrators must work within a supportive context to conduct action research in meaningful ways. School improvement must be shared by all staff and decision making processes need to be encouraged. This is based on the assumption that real change in program and instruction will only occur if supported from within the class room of our schools.


Links to other Action Research Sites

Center for Collaborative Action Research
http://cadres.pepperdine.edu/ccar/

The Ontario Action Researcher (on-line journal for teachers)
http://www.nipissingu.ca/oar/

Passion in Professional Practice II (Grand Erie District School Board)
http://schools.gedsb.net/ar/passion/pppii/

Action Research in the Grand Erie District School Board
http://www.actionresearch.ca/

Action Research at Bath University (UK)
http://www.bath.ac.uk/~edsajw/

WEB Links To Participatory Action Research Sites
http://www.goshen.edu/soan/soan96p.htm

Educating as Inquiry A Teacher / Action Research Site
http://www.lupinworks.com/ar/

NETWORKS--An On-Line Journal for Teacher Research
http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/~ctd/networks/

Action Research Resources at Southern Cross University, Australia
http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/gcm/ar/arhome.html

The Teacher Inquirer (BC Teachers' Federation)
http://www.bctf.bc.ca/inquirer/

Action Research Electronic Reader at University of Sydney, Australia
http://www2.fhs.usyd.edu.au/arow//reader/

Collaborative Action Research Network University of East Anglia, UK
http://www.uea.ac.uk/care/carn/

Faculty of Education, Duncan McArthur Hall
Kingston, Ontario, Canada. K7M 5R7. 613.533.2000