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Research Studies 1 |
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| Code: |
EDTL 692 |
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| Semester: |
Fall 2003 |
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| Instructor: |
Dr. Marianne Lovik-Powers |
Reflection
I have learned to work with principles, concepts and techniques of Action
Research. Action research is the way of researching and acting at the
same time. It is also learning and doing. However, it is not only just
researching (learning) and acting (doing); it has to be done by self-reflecting.
Moreover, it is also a cycle process that allows me to explore and use
my own reflection to improve my profession. I have to analyze what happened
and what different I should do along with researching and acting. Through
the action research, I will be able remove the gap between what is going
on now and what should be done to enhance my teaching and learning.
This course provided me the opportunity to gain an insight about becoming
a critically reflective teacher. By reading Brookfield’s book, I
have gained insightful information about how to develop yourselves, your
students, and your colleagues to become critically reflective thinkers.
It is not only to be able to reflect and to be reflected from four critically
reflective lenses, but also to agree and to be willing to learn something
new and difficult on regular basis as mean of gaining new insight into
teaching process.
Becoming a professional educator, teachers need to enhance their qualities
of teaching. The question is "How can teachers develop their teaching
to become a professional educator?" Utilizing the action research
and becoming critically reflective teacher are able to help everyone,
not only those in educational careers, solve this problem. The action
research process is to gather the information needed to solve the problems
and analyze that information to develop teaching knowledge and skills.
The critically reflective teacher is one who emphasizes the importance
of learning from her/his mistake by listening to not only from self, but
from outside as well.
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Books |
| Stephen D. Brookfield. Becoming a Critically Reflective
Teacher. |
| Geoffrey E. Mills. Action Research: A Guide for the Teacher
Researcher. |
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