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Direct linkPostholm, May Britt – Educational Research, 2020
Background: This article focuses on the complementarity between formative interventions research conducted within the framework of cultural historical activity theory, action research and learning, as well as how this complementarity influences the researcher's role. Purpose: The study suggests how action research, learning and formative…
Descriptors: Action Research, Active Learning, Intervention, Educational Research
Postholm, May Britt; Skrøvset, Siw – Educational Action Research, 2013
This article focuses on the challenges and opportunities a researcher may encounter in practice, and presents four narratives that take the reader into situations which may arise when the researcher steps into the practice field. Episodes that challenge the researcher both cognitively and emotionally are depicted in the narratives. The authors…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Researchers, Personal Narratives, Action Research
Postholm, May Britt – Educational Action Research, 2009
This article focuses on the theoretical frame of action research and the teacher as researcher, working through a Norwegian Research Council-funded project in a school that explored learning strategies for pupils' subject and social development. Action research is here called research and development (R&D) work as the term envisages that…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Action Research, Learning Strategies, Adult Education
Postholm, May Britt; Pettersson, Tove; Granum, Marianne Wold; Flem, Annlaug; Gudmundsdottir, Sigrun – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2004
This paper brings into focus what can happen when a person is both a researcher and a teacher in two different classrooms almost at the same time. In the two classrooms project work is the subject of inquiry and the working method used. The aim of the research was to figure out how group work and collaborative processes function during project…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Interaction, Foreign Countries, Secondary Schools
Postholm, May Britt – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2008
Problem-based learning, group work, project work and fieldwork are prescribed learning methods aimed at replacing or complementing traditional lectures in higher education in Norway (Innst. S. nr 337, 2000-2001) [Proposal to the Norwegian Parliament no. 337 (2000-2001)]. This is based on the belief that student activity can enhance learning. The…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Problem Based Learning, Group Dynamics, Foreign Countries
Postholm, May Britt – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2008
The article is based on a research and development work project (R&D project) conducted in a Norwegian lower secondary school. The purpose of the text is to describe the researchers' and teachers' roles during the initial phase of such a project, and what this phase and the close cooperation between the researcher and teachers mean for the…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Teacher Role, Educational Researchers, Foreign Countries
