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Educational Action Research

Educational action research is a cyclical, practitioner-led inquiry method in which educators systematically investigate a problem or opportunity in their own classroom or school, implement a change, observe its effects, and reflect on findings to guide the next cycle. Rooted in Kurt Lewin's action research framework and developed for educational contexts by Lawrence Stenhouse and John Elliott, it bridges the gap between educational theory and classroom practice by making teachers agents of rigorous inquiry.

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Educational Action Research
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / field-methods
  • Elliott, J. (1991). Action Research for Educational Change. Open University Press. · ISBN 978-0335096190
  • Kemmis, S., McTaggart, R., & Nixon, R. (2014). The Action Research Planner: Doing Critical Participatory Action Research. Springer. · DOI 10.1007/978-981-4560-67-2
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Taxonomic bucketClassroom Observationmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Taxonomic bucketDesign-based Researchmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyEthnographymachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Taxonomic bucketLesson Studymachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyParticipatory Action Researchmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Taxonomic bucketProgram Evaluationmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.

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