Action Research in Education – 10 Ways of Improving My Teaching Practice

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This list presents the key findings of a recent action research (AR) learned study on the development of curricula in a military college. I hope you will find some reasons to see you involved in AR.

First The four types of knowledge: experience, presentation, propositional, practical. I see them now more explicitly in the classroom, I am planning and construction at the university. I evaluate applications in knowledge on the basis of this framework. I am looking for ways to integrate all four in all subjects. I introduced the idea in our program, faculty development, because it told a synergy with our philosophy of education.

Second Unproductive exercise in communication: a useful set of techniques to look for a formal and systematic problem areas. This is a difficult area for me as a communicator in general, to the time and effort and rework that comes so easily to me to spend. But we know that in such cases, you get a good price by using your strengths, not only to correct deficiencies. Made me aware of my communication methods and frameworks.

Third The profile of the development of leadership qualities: fascinating and useful model for the participation of organizations Torbert large-scale transformation through self-awareness and a sense of what is possible to predict and calibrate the friction points. I shall not be capable of it yet, but I can see how powerful they may be within my college, because it is a scaffolding around the organization of the work we already do with the transformation of individual leaders.
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Real World Challenges in Qualitative Research in Education – Theory Meets Practice

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In a recent consultation, I worked with a group that the problem is a concept that their group shot participatory action research is described as the voice. This is a non-technical term at this moment they have a certain way for purposes that had them as part of their college environment suitable. They had been defined with sufficient precision, he had almost dogmatic significance for them.

The challenge now is to make this operational definition, and then see if there are other terms with similar meaning from other, already existing in the world of theory, even if this theory is far from the area of ​​research interest.

I help them make the literature of the theory. Based on what I found in my research, or can not I do a lot of packaging and rework in order to integrate it into the classic lines of the theory. As far as I change the meaning and purpose of their building, but I do a disservice to those in the group of participatory action research, so I have to consider their views as well. He never cut and dried, right?
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The Need for Cyber Law Research in Education

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E right to education is a topic that is ripe for scientific research and analysis. The importance of this issue grows exponentially with the meteoric rise of social networks and other online forums that are to be a primary source of interaction between pupils of compulsory school age. One result of this “virtual” relationships is a blurring of the lines of jurisdiction over disciplinary responsibility. If a student’s actions are not within the competence of his school? When students use school equipment for reasons of scientific analysis is very clear, but the law has a continuum, the objective definition of where the court ends defies created. Similarly, if a teacher or administrator actions to leave the authority of the employer and protected by their right to privacy? To address the question of jurisdiction before significant processes are implemented to have the damage that online actions on the school system can be calculated.

The damage in the hands of students caused by activities, cyber damage the reputation of teachers and administrators to harass other students and threaten the security of tests and other educational information. Also, teachers often cause damage by their own cyber-activities with online forums improperly at the expense of their school or neighborhood. These actions may affect the safety and morality of their students and the integrity of the educational system itself. However, some restrictions may violate those shares for the constitutional rights of free expression and privacy. Needless to say, there is a careful balancing process and the development of law in this area must be maintained. And decisions of our courts and legislatures of our texts should be monitored and influenced by educators and specialists in education law.
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