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Matt LeClair

http://www.actionresearch.net/writings/jack/arplanner.htm - 0 views

  • expression and communication of these values is essential in any valid explanation of your educational influence in your own learning and in the learning of others.  I am thinking here of values such as freedom, justice, care, love, compassion, respect and knowledge-creation
  • three assumptions
  • 'How do I improve what I am doing?'  in  your professional practice.
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  • onversations between pairs of practitioner-researchers in which we take some 4 minutes each to outline our contexts, what really matters to us, and what we would like to improve
  • motivating you to improve your practice it often helps in the development of realistic action pla
  • After the initial conversation on values and context in relation to your desire to improve practices that relate to helping students, yourself and/or colleagues to improve their learning, I believe that you may find the following action planning process most useful.
  • 'How do I improve what I am doing?'
  • tions, ideas and actions that can distinguish an action reflection cycle: 1) What do I want to improve? What is my concern? Why am I concerned? 2) Imagining possibilities and choosing one of them to act on in an action plan 3) As I am acting what data will I collect to enable me to judge my educational influence in my professional context as I answer my question?  4) Evaluating the influence of the actions in terms of values and understandings. 5) Modifying concerns, ideas and actions in the light of evaluations.
  • Making public a validated explanation of educational influences
  • 7) As I evaluate the educational influences of my actions in my own learning and the learning of other, who might be willing to help me to strengthen the validity of my explanation of my learning about my influence with responses to questions such as: i)               Is my explanation as comprehensible as it could be? ii)             Could I improve the evidential basis of my claims to know what I am doing? iii)            Does my explanation include an awareness of historical and cultural influences in what I am doing and draw on the most advanced social theories of the day? iv)            Am I showing that I am committed to the values that I claim to be living by?
  • nhancing professionalism with TASC (Thinking Actively in a Social Context)
  • .  In producing a valid explanation for our educational influences in the learning of others I believe it to be necessary for the other's explanation of their own learning to be included in our explanation. 
  • ecognises the creativity of the other in engaging with ideas
  • I believe that Sally's writings make an original contribution to educational knowledge whilst showing that she has found useful some of my own ideas  in making this contribution.
  • Educational Enquiry (EE), Research Methods in Education (RME), Understanding Learners and Learning (ULL) and Gifts and Talents in Education (G & T) you can access these at: http://www.actionresearch.net/writings/mastermod.shtml .
  • To see the criteria used in assessing these units click on this link for the MACriteria.
  • virtual learning space for this CPD project go to http://www.spanglefish.com/livingvaluesimprovingpracticecooperatively/ . You can also read Walton's (2011 a&b) ideas on developing a collaborative inquiry.
  • In an inclusional way of being and knowing an individual recognises that they exist in a relational dynamic of space and boundaries. Hence one of the tasks of the practitioner-researcher is to express and communicate this relational dynamic in explanations of educational influence.
  • An example here would be the use of Foucault's (1977) ideas on Power/Knowledge to understand the relationships between the Truth of Power and the Power of Truth in the workplace when seeking academic legitimation for new living standards of judgment.
  • Appendix 1 Action Planner
  • You can access this curriculum at http://www.actionresearch.net/writings/bishops/bish99.pdf
  • How do we contribute to an educational knowledge base
  • Hymer, B. (2007) How do I understand and communicate my values and beliefs in my work as an educator in the field of giftedness?
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    "Action Planning In Improving Practice And Generating Educational Knowledge In Creating Your Living Educational Theory"
Matt LeClair

Beginners' guide to action research - 0 views

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    "action research is briefly described, and the simultaneous achievement of action (that is, change) and research (that is, understanding) is discussed"
Michelle Green

The Ontario Action Researcher - Welcome - 0 views

  • this journal strives to: Publish accounts of a range of action research projects in education and across the professions with the aim of making their outcomes widely available, providing models of effective action research and enabling educators to share their experiences Demonstrate connections between practice and theory through articles of a general nature on methodological and epistemological issues related to action research Disseminate reviews of books, websites and products related to action research And finally, to provide a forum for dialogue on the various action research projects that are taking place around the province
Matt LeClair

Action Research @ actionresearch.net - 0 views

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    n a living educational theory approach to action research, individuals hold their lives to account by producing explanations of their educational influences in their own learning in enquiries of the kind, 'How am I improving what I am doing?' They do this in contexts where they are seeking to live the values they use to give life meaning and purpose as fully as they can. The living educational theories of professional educators and other practitioner-researchers usually explain their educational influences in the learning of their students and can also explain their educational influences in the learning of social formations. See www.actionresearch.net/writings/livtheory.html.
Matt LeClair

Qualitative evaluation for program improvement - 0 views

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    "evaluation process in the general style of action research illustrates some points about qualitative research and evaluation"
Matt LeClair

Online Learning Circles - 0 views

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    Learning Circle Model and Phases; Specific Learning Groups addressed: Elem/HS students/university students/teachers/action researchers, evaluation researchers/other
Andrea Flagiello

OERL : PD Modules : Methodological Approach and Sampling : Key Topics - 0 views

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    Information about how to gather data and how to design your research study. Can help with action research. 
Matt LeClair

CRADLE - Center for Research on Activity, Development, and Learning - University of Hel... - 0 views

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    The purpose of CRADLE is to create a strong research community with high international impact, a national and international cradle of activity-theoretical and socio-cultural research.
Matt LeClair

OMNI - Essentials of Planning and Conducting Focus Groups - 0 views

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    Resources on: Participatory Action Research Summary Articles - Part 1 & 2 Toolkit for Conducting Focus Groups
Matt LeClair

Emotional Intelligence 2.0 Action Plans.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 0 views

Matt LeClair

Action Research for Everything - 0 views

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    Dr. E Alana James
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    Website mentioned by Dr. E Alana James
Matt LeClair

Action Research for Business, Nonprofit, and Public Administration: A Tool ... - Traces... - 0 views

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    E. Alana James - presenter at MALT AR Conference.
Matt LeClair

Qual Page - 2 views

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    Resources for Qualitative Research
Matt LeClair

Emotional Intelligence 2.0 | #1 Selling Emotional Intelligence Book - 0 views

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    For the first time, TalentSmart unveils its step-by-step program for increasing emotional intelligence via 66 proven strategies that teach: self-awareness self-management social awareness relationship management The book also includes access to the enhanced online edition of the world′s most popular EQ test-the Emotional Intelligence Appraisal-that pinpoints the strategies that will increase your emotional intelligence the most and tests your EQ a second time to measure your progress.
Matt LeClair

DoctoralNet - 0 views

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    follow our doctoral net acaemy map
Margaret Riel

Reciprocity - 0 views

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    community-based action research
Michelle Green

Presenters Final.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 0 views

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    more action research project to review
Matt LeClair

WebHome < Main < WikiTADA - 0 views

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    "The Text Analysis Developers Alliance is an international group of designers and developers of text analysis tools. The mission of TADA is to encourage collaboration among researchers and to provide useful resources to developers and users."
Matt LeClair

Survey Results Action Plan Guide - 0 views

  • Purpose The purpose of this guide is to offer suggestions for Federal agencies for successfully using their employee survey results in planning and implementing positive organizational change.
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    The purpose of this guide is to offer suggestions for Federal agencies for successfully using their employee survey results in planning and implementing positive organizational change.
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