Төрехан Айдана маш-911 Action Research in Education

The day-to-day activities of teaching normally constitute a sufficiently demanding workload for most teachers, so an appropriate question is, why add research to a teacher’s workload? Advocates of action research suggest that this concern reflects a misunderstanding of action research. Because action research is research based on teaching, it is best thought of as adding a research dimension to existing practice as a way to better understand and improve such practice. It also seeks to redefine the role of the teacher by giving teachers the means to set their own agendas for improvement and by shifting the responsibility for change or improvement from an outsider (a school board, a principal, a supervisor, a researcher) to teachers themselves. As Sagor comments, “By changing the role of teachers, we can profoundly change the teaching and learning process in our schools.”