What+is+Action+Research?

Just a few first thoughts and links - feel free to re-edit - remix - add pages.

Face to Face meetup to discuss/ explore - hold a TeachMeet Action Research

What is Action Research?

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History?

@http://winsome-words.blogspot.com/2007/02/lawrence-stenhouse-teacher-as.html

Exemplars out there?

How effective is it?

So why isn't it more widespread - can a distributed community joined by tech outside of institutions help? Is there a model for this?

Can it be redefined in the light of grass roots activity?

How to encourage and model professional iterative practice?

Light touch to much more academic? Ethical and other concerns - different protocols.

The process applied to pupils, parents, students as well?

DMZ or commons for academic / cross institutional working - is it possible? Where are the crossing points?

Crowdsourcing dissemination / feedback networks?

What would a loosely federated distributed network of action research look like?

Aggregation and curation of resources? Sustainability or a living expertise network - mutually exclusive?

Opportunities for formative assessment and iterative design in the classroom.

Accreditation inside/ outside of the system? How valuable is informal AR - motivation - itrinsic / extrinsic? Would it still be called AR?