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Action Research Notes
Norton (2019)
Fundamental purpose of PedAR is to systematically investigate our own teaching and learning facilitation practice with the dual aim of modifying practice and contributing to theoretical knowledge.
An interest in how students learn and a readiness to explore and reflect on our teaching and assessment practices is all that is required.
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AR encourages us to think about teaching that is more active and experiential, so as to align with the learning needs of our students.
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Can be tempting to blame the university or the student when students are not learning or performing. By this stance does not help to move us on in improving our practice.
Use a bottom up approach, take ownership of our own professional development. Become reflective practitioners.
In AR we can work collaboratively to grow initiatives and begin to challenge and change established practices.
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Reflective Practice
The practice by which professionals become aware of their implicit knowledge base and in doing so, learn from their experiences. Norton (2019)
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A somewhat rhetorical or reified term, this has led to some difficulty. The terminology can be a problem. It's fuzzy and ill-defined.
Brookfield says the systematic approach to checking the accuracy and validity of our teaching assumptions. (2017)
Biggs and Tang say transformative reflection is better, as something needs to change (2011)
We must be careful not to over-do the reflection as it might negatively impact our self-confidence (Norton 2019). Ill informed psycho analysis (Moore 2012)
Best way to challenge assumptions is to use four specific lenses. Students eyes, colleagues eyes, personal experience and theory. This must be consistent and regular - daily, weekly, monthly. Not a one-time thing.
A common meta-assumption is that the meaning we ascribe to our teaching is the same as students. Brookfiled 2017
Colleagues can suggest perspectives we might have missed and responses to situations in which we feel clueless. Brookfiled 2017
McNiff (2016)
Becoming aware of what you need to do to improve your practice in your workplace, doing it, and then describing how you did it and why you done it.
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AR is a commitment to reflection, knowledge generation, participation and collaborative working, and practice tranformation.
AR is praxis. Informed, committed action that gives rise to knowledge and successful action.
Not possible to improve someone's learning or to educate them. People decide if they wish to be influenced by you. They have the right to improve and educate themselves.
Learning is done with, from and for others. So taking socially oriented action requires understanding of self in relation to others. Education is therefore about mental, spiritual, and physical growth, not getting a job or providing people with employable skills. Werner would say to educe what is already latent in the individual.
AR is showing personal and collective processes of learning with potential for generating personal theories of practice
Our responsibility as educators is to encourage others to interrogate their own behaviour and change them as they see fit.