• By André Koffeman; Dymphna Snijders-Blok; Wybe Stavenga; Birgit Rusbach; Jetske Meelker

    Promoting inclusive school cultures and, more specifically, addressing inequality of opportunity is high on the European education agenda. This is reflected in the policies and ambitions of many teacher training institutes. As inequality is . . .

    Utrecht, NL

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    By Dane Stickney

    We at the University of Colorado-Denver frame our master’s level Curriculum Theories course with a contentious quote: “Curriculum in any time and place becomes the site of a battleground where the fight is over whose values and beliefs will achieve the legitimization and the respect that acceptance into the national discourse provides” (Kliebard, 1995, p. 250-251). While the battlefield language is a bit . . .

    Denver, CO, US

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    By Tara Kiran Kurre

    To overcome the difficulty in learning Chemistry for students and in particular to help with their understandings of Organic Chemistry reactions, I used mind maps as a technique. Mind maps are an outline of ideas that emerge from a central theme or concept. Each student developed their own mind maps after I taught them first, and the students then used them consistently . . .

    Bangalore, IN

  • Online teaching

    By Sureka Fernando

    The closure of academic institutions in Sri Lanka for a long period due to the COVID 19 pandemic has necessitated a transformation from face-to-face teaching to virtual teaching in the country. The sudden shift to online instruction without research-based strategies or training has resulted in . . .

    Negombo, LK

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    By STAR Community

    The Action Research Network of the Americas (ARNA) was created in 2012 by five “network initiators” with a vision to support and promote a wide variety of forms of participatory research. The goal was to increase knowledge production, dissemination, and democratization . . .

    San Diego, CA, US

  • Democratizing Participatory Research

    By Carmen Martinez-Vargas

    In this book Martinez-Vargas explores how academic participatory research and the way it is carried out can contribute to more, or less, social justice. Adopting theoretical and empirical approaches, and addressing multiple complex, intersectional issues, this book offers inspiration for scholars and practitioners to open up alternative . . .

    Bloemfontein, ZA

  • Clean School

    By Lummini Gunathilaka

    A pleasant environment contributes to a peaceful mind as well as success in education. A stress-free mind for students is facilitated by a pleasant school environment created by the students by cleaning the school environment before the commencement of the school day. That was the focus of the project reported in this paper. The school where I was first appointed as a teacher is located in a . . .

    Kandy, LK

  • Microteaching as a Method to Enhance Prospective Teachers’ Teaching Skills

    By H.M. Nalini Dhammika Kumari

    Microteaching and teaching practice are two integral parts of pre-service teacher education programmes. Microteaching has been used since the 1960s in teaching and learning environments including teaching practices of pre-service teachers. The emphasis of professional development in teacher education has been on . . .

    Gampaha, LK

  • Action Research Tradition of Sports Sciences in Sri Lanka

    By Thanuja Liyanage

    The Department of Sport Sciences and Physical Education, Sabaragamuwa University, Sri Lanka, has earned a reputation as a leader in sports education and has been recognized nationally since 2008 for the delivery of two full-time undergraduate degrees in Physical Education and Sport Sciences & Management. Students complete two action research studies in partial fulfillment of . . .

    Colombo, LK

  • Welcome to The Action Research Podcast

    By Adam Stieglitz; Vanessa Gold; Shikha Diwakar; Joe Levitan

    The purpose of this project is to expose a new form of knowledge inquiry and dissemination through the use of podcasting. Dr. Joe Levitan and Adam Stieglitz created “The Action Research Podcast” as an attempt to push back on the standard approach to accessing meaningful knowledge, specifically in the academic realm. As co-hosts, Adam and Joe feel it . . .

    Calca, PE

  • Room 7 and a Feminist Participatory Action Research Website

    By Patricia Maguire

    This short essay explores why I recently created a website to digitally codify a slice of my life work in feminist participatory action research and teacher action research. My website - part repository, part memoir - includes freely downloadable PDF files of publications, presentations, and teaching resources. In this essay, I briefly explore why I included personal Backstories to . . .

    Saint Augustine Beach, FL, US

  • My Life in the Pandemic and How I Learned to learn

    By Ruth Oros Macías

    This short essay describes my life as a teacher in a teacher training school during confinement generated by the COVID-19 pandemic in the city of Chihuahua, Mexico. Through this writing, I allow myself to recount my experiences during a period that has been long, complicated, and with . . .

    Chihuahua, MX