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Entries Tagged as 'action research'

Margaret Farren – Creating a ‘Pedagogy of the Unique’

January 7th, 2008 · No Comments

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In this recent paper in Action Research Expeditions, Margaret Farren reports on her PhD thesis, which examines the growth of her educational knowledge and development of her practice over six years of self-study.
As an E-Learning development officer, working with mid-career Engineering Masters students who are completely new to online collaboration, I particularly enjoyed [...]

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Tags: Educational philosophies · action research

Ethical Action Research

November 29th, 2007 · No Comments

For this evening’s MA session with Jack Whitehead I’ve been thinking about an article by Amanda Nolan and Jim Vander Putten in Educational Researcher (October 2007).
The article talks about the ethical dilemmas and difficulties that are particular to educational action research. Many of the issues raised are only relevant to teacher-researchers who work with minors [...]

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