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Hayhurst, Lyndsay M. C.; Giles, Audrey R.; Wright, Jan – Sport, Education and Society, 2016
This paper uses transnational postcolonial feminist participatory action research (TPFPAR) to examine two sport for development and peace (SDP) initiatives that focus on Indigenous young women residing in urban areas, one in Vancouver, Canada, and one in Perth, Australia. We examine how SDP programs that target urban Indigenous young women and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Knowledge, Urban Areas, Indigenous Populations
Smith, Prudence M.; Hackling, Mark W. – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2016
Students' thinking and learning in inquiry-based science is contingent on them being able to participate in substantive conversations so they explore their ideas and develop reasons and explanations for the outcomes of their investigations. While teachers understand the importance of talk for student learning, they are often unaware of the impact…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Science Instruction, Elementary School Science, Discussion (Teaching Technique)
Wyatt, Mark; Pasamar Márquez, Carmen – Language Teaching Research, 2016
Adopting an "exploratory action research" design and drawing primarily on a reflective journal and interviews, this study recounts the process of supporting first-year Applied Languages students (learning French, German and Spanish) as they started to engage in language research. Certain challenges they faced in engaging with the…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Language Research, Action Research, Diaries
Sangsongfa, Chalothorn; Rawang, Wee – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
Research and Development (R&D) was used with 364 students, 44 teachers and 3 school directors before designing innovation, and evaluating the model efficiency with 30 voluntary students by Action Research (AR). The research used questionnaire, interview form and innovation efficiency evaluation form, and statistically analyzed by percentage,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Environmental Education, English (Second Language), Communicative Competence (Languages)
Roberts, Pauline – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2016
Reflection has been a component of teacher education programs for many years. The introduction of the Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF) and the National Quality Standard (NQS) into Western Australian schools appear to have brought a renewed focus to this. For universities involved in teacher education, reflection remains a complex construct…
Descriptors: Reflection, Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education
Tsouvala, Maria; Magos, Kostas – Research in Dance Education, 2016
This paper describes a dance-based research project conducted at the Department of Early Childhood Education of the University of Thessaly. The main aim of the project was to explore the possibilities of dance in understanding the self in relation to the world, under the perspective of the transformative learning theory. The methodology applied…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dance Education, Transformative Learning, Research Projects
Kerr, Rachel A. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
The purpose of this action research study was to design, implement, analyze, and evaluate a series of interventions to increase the elementary teachers' utilization of the RtI process. Another purpose of the study was to determine the teachers' background knowledge and perceptions about the Responsiveness to Intervention (RtI) process at the…
Descriptors: Response to Intervention, Elementary School Teachers, Action Research, Knowledge Base for Teaching
Stauber, Leah S. – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2017
What happens when a team of university education researchers initiates a social justice learning project in a local high school, and--despite the overall project's considerable successes in cultivating students' critical political "voice"--is confounded by the periodic, apparent "silences" of some of its young female students?…
Descriptors: Social Justice, High School Students, Consciousness Raising, Political Issues
Chang, Aurora – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2017
Using a combination of counter-storytelling, testimonios, and Chicana feminist epistemology, I report on the findings of an ethnographic study that explores and analyzes the educational experiences of geographically isolated Latina high school students in a rural city in Wyoming. I demonstrate the labeling of these students by peers and teachers…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, High School Students, Females, Story Telling
Scaffolding Teachers to Foster Inclusive Pedagogy and Presence through Collaborative Action Research
Juma, Said; Lehtomäki, Elina; Naukkarinen, Aimo – Educational Action Research, 2017
Teachers can be influential change agents in transforming their schools if they regularly reflect on their pedagogical practices, looking for improvements that will help all learners reach their full potential. However, in many sub-Saharan African countries, teachers seldom get an opportunity to collaboratively reflect on their practices. Action…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Action Research, Partnerships in Education, College School Cooperation
Banks, Sarah; Herrington, Tracey; Carter, Kath – Educational Action Research, 2017
This article introduces the concept of "co-impact" to characterise the complex and dynamic process of social and economic change generated by participatory action research (PAR). It argues that dominant models of research impact tend to see it as a linear process, based on a donor-recipient model, occurring at the end of a project…
Descriptors: Action Research, Community Organizations, Participatory Research, Social Change
Covarrubias, Alejandro – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Daily experiences of isolation and invalidation create adverse campus climates that often lead to men of color dropping out of higher education. Student leadership positions can increase feelings of belonging, provide greater access to campus resources and increase retention for men of color, particularly when they centralize identity exploration.…
Descriptors: Males, Undergraduate Students, Minority Group Students, Racial Differences
Butuner, Suphi Onder – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2015
Within recent years, history of mathematics (HoM) has become an increasingly popular topic. Studies have shown that student reactions to it depend on the ways they use history of mathematics. The present action research study aimed to make students deduce volume rules of frustum pyramids using the dissection method. Participants were 24 grade…
Descriptors: History, Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction, Geometric Concepts
Boon, Stuart Ian – Education 3-13, 2015
Peer assessment is where students assess the quality of a peer's work. Studies have demonstrated its positive impact on learning yet most of these are in higher education. This study used training to improve the quality of written feedback in a year six primary school classroom. Action Research was selected as a research strategy given the need to…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Skills, Training, Student Improvement
Al Mutawah, Masooma Ali – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2016
This study was conducted on year 4 students enrolled in the Bachelor of Education program for Cycle one teacher candidates. The effect of practicing mental calculation strategies in improving students' numeracy proficiency was put under some tests to measure its effect in a scientific way. A Pre-quiz was conducted before with no prior practice…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mental Computation, Learning Strategies, Preservice Teachers