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Download full textJackson, Charles – 1998
Thirty-four representatives of the Department for Education and Employment and other national organizations in the United Kingdom, researchers and educators in the fields of career education and guidance, and guidance practitioners from careers service companies and higher education institutions explored ways of developing a research culture in…
Descriptors: Action Research, Career Education, Career Guidance, Educational Research
Peer reviewedMiller, Donald M.; Pine, Gerald J. – Journal of Staff Development, 1990
Teachers can contribute to educational improvement by conducting classroom research concerning teaching and learning processes. Action research as staff development advances professional inquiry, improves education, and promotes teacher development. The article lists seven conditions necessary for the school environment for action research to…
Descriptors: Action Research, Classroom Research, Educational Improvement, Elementary School Teachers
Direct linkHansen, Soren – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2004
Most work done by engineers today is organized in projects and very often as teamwork. When educating towards employability, it is therefore important that the students develop competencies in areas such as project management, collaboration and teamwork. In companies using human resource management, we find similar expectations to the engineers'…
Descriptors: Group Dynamics, Human Resources, Supervisors, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
Hammond, Joyce D.; Hicks, Maria; Kalman, Rowenn; Miller, Jason – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 2005
In the past two years, three graduate students and a senior faculty member have co-taught a participatory action research (PAR) course to undergraduate and graduate students. In this article the co-teachers advocate a set of pedagogical principles and practices in a PAR-oriented classroom that establishes congruency with community PAR projects in…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Action Research, Faculty, Teaching Methods
Vecchiarelli, Stephanie; Prelip, Michael; Slusser, Wendelin; Weightman, Heather; Neumann, Charlotte – American Journal of Health Education, 2005
Rates of overweight children and adolescents have nearly tripled over the past 30 years. Many barriers exist to healthy eating and physical activity for children and adolescents, including factors in the school and community environment. It is these modifiable school environmental factors that led to the development of the Nutrition Friendly…
Descriptors: Health Services, Urban Schools, Physical Education, Obesity
Caldwell, Joyce Y.; Davis, Jamie D.; Du Bois, Barbara; Echo-Hawk, Holly; Erickson, Jill Shepard; Goins, R. Turner; Hill, Calvin; Hillabrant, Walter; Johnson, Sharon R.; Kendall, Elizabeth; Keemer, Kelly; Manson, Spero M.; Marshall, Catherine A.; Running Wolf, Paulette; Santiago, Rolando L.; Schacht, Robert; Stone, Joseph B. – American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research: The Journal of the National Center, 2005
This article describes the collective experience of a multidisciplinary network of researchers, practitioners, and program evaluators who support appropriate research and evaluation methods in working with Native peoples. Our experience underlines the critical importance of culture in understanding and conducting research with the diverse…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Evaluators, Evaluation Methods, Alaska Natives
Zuelke, Dennis C.; Nichols, Teresa M. – 1995
Recent calls for collaborative efforts appear to be aimed at universities doing a better job at supporting school-improvement efforts. This paper describes outcomes of a project in which university faculty supported and trained local administrators and teachers at one school in the use of collaborative action research to improve teaching and…
Descriptors: Action Research, College School Cooperation, Cooperative Planning, Data Analysis
Jiggins, Janice; Roling, Niels – 1994
Over the last decade, there have been rapid developments in field methodologies within participatory approaches to rural and agricultural development. At the same time, the use of "soft systems" methodologies for bringing potentially conflictual or disparate actors together for action has spread from the business world to other applications. These…
Descriptors: Action Research, Change Agents, College Curriculum, Community Action
Harmon, David J.; Jones, Jeanie – 1994
Action research in the Cobb County (Georgia) school district is described. This research is being conducted in the district under three main approaches: (1) co-researcher projects addressing central level issues; (2) district-wide projects; and (3) school-focused action research, including minigrants to teachers. The first three…
Descriptors: Action Research, Cooperation, Data Collection, Elementary Secondary Education
Rogan, Robert Patrick – Online Submission, 2006
Democratic education is a learning approach that encourages and respects the voices of students. Unfortunately, much of the research on student empowerment and democratic education utilizes antiquated techniques that are researcher driven and disempowering to the objects of their study, the children. The current research incorporated a…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Research Design, Student Empowerment, Projective Measures
Rohleder, P.; Fish, W.; Ismail, A.; Padfield, L.; Platen, D. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2007
The authors report on their experiences as participants in the Community, Self and Identity Project; a collaborative teaching and research project between the University of the Western Cape and Stellenbosch University. The project aimed to provide fourth year social work and psychology students the opportunity to become part of a shared…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Psychology, Social Work, Communities of Practice
Northfield, Jeff – 1996
This paper considers the value of the self-study perspective and discusses quality factors in self-study research by educators. The context of the paper is the experience of the Self Study of Teacher Education Practices (SSTEP) special interest group. Reasons for increasing interest in self-study among teachers and teacher educators include its…
Descriptors: Action Research, Educational Quality, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria
Scherer, Marcia J.; And Others – 1993
An approach to educational research that is receiving renewed attention is participatory action research (PAR), which emphasizes a bottom-up approach to research as well as useful outcomes. PAR is a philosophy, and not a methodology per se. It is a deliberate, goal-directed, structured, and applied means of obtaining information that looks to…
Descriptors: Action Research, Check Lists, College Students, Deafness
Spatig, Linda; Grimes, Courtney; Farrar, Jennifer; Gaines, Shelley; Terry, Elizabeth; Vance, Virginia; Sadler, Christina – 2001
The Girls' Resiliency Program is a youth empowerment program for girls in a rural, economically depressed area of West Virginia. Girls develop leadership skills by participating in board meetings, discussion groups, recreational events, song writing and poetry workshops, action research, and school and community service projects. Evaluation…
Descriptors: Action Research, Adolescents, Adult Child Relationship, Empowerment
Patten, Herb; Ryan, Robin – Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2001
When the Australian government's Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation terminated at the end of 2000, a people's foundation took up the work. A knowledge of Australian Aboriginal history would foster the respect necessary for reconciliation. Research can help by implementing emerging canons in which Aboriginal perspectives provide the framework…
Descriptors: Aboriginal Australians, Action Research, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Awareness
