Introduction to Action Research & Innovation: 20 flashcards
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1. Who first coined the term 'action research'?
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Kurt Lewin
2. Action research is a philosophy and methodology of research generally applied in which field?
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The social sciences
3. What kind of change does action research seek?
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Transformative change
4. What links action and research together in action research?
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Critical reflection
5. Are action, research, and reflection sequential stages or simultaneous?
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Simultaneous
6. Who typically conducts action research according to the source?
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Teachers
7. What two things do teachers use action research to understand?
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Their own teaching and their students
8. What kind of knowledge is action research most interested in?
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Knowledge that can be directly applied to the teacher's own teaching context
9. Action research is both a ______ and a ______.
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Philosophy and methodology
10. What is the research setting in action research?
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The teacher's own classroom
11. What is the typical first step in an action research cycle?
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Identify a problem in your own teaching context
12. What happens after 'act and observe' in the action research cycle?
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Reflect critically
13. What does each turn of the action research cycle produce?
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Both new practice and new knowledge
14. What does the philosophy of action research hold about practitioners?
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Practitioners are legitimate producers of knowledge about their own work
15. What distinguishes action research from everyday teaching?
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Deliberate, systematic, reflective inquiry
16. What happens if reflection is skipped in action research?
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Action and research become two disconnected activities
17. Why is action research knowledge described as 'situated'?
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It is valid and useful in the context that generated it
18. Does action research need to generalize widely to be valuable?
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No — its value is measured by usefulness in its own context
19. What is the goal of action research beyond description or explanation?
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Transformative change
20. Why does action research not need to translate theory into practice?
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Findings are produced in practice, in the classroom itself
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