השוואת שיטות

	מחקר פעולה חינוכי	תצפית בכיתה	אתנוגרפיה
תחום	שיטות שדה	שיטות שדה	איכותני
משפחה	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
שנת המקור	1940s (Lewin); educational context developed 1970s–1980s	1960s (Flanders Interaction Analysis); refined through 1990s–2000s	c. 1922 (Malinowski's Argonauts of the Western Pacific)
הוגה השיטה	Kurt Lewin (action research foundations); Lawrence Stenhouse and John Elliott (educational adaptation)	Ned Flanders (systematic interaction analysis); Robert Pianta et al. (CLASS system)	Bronisław Malinowski (modern ethnography); rooted in 19th-century anthropology
סוג	Participatory qualitative research design	Qualitative and quantitative observational research	Qualitative fieldwork tradition
מקור מכונן	Elliott, J. (1991). Action Research for Educational Change. Open University Press. ISBN: 978-0335096190	Flanders, N. A. (1970). Analyzing Teaching Behavior. Addison-Wesley.	Hammersley, M. & Atkinson, P. (2019). Ethnography: Principles in Practice (4th ed.). Routledge. ISBN: 978-1138504462
כינויים	EAR, practitioner research, teacher action research, classroom action research	classroom observation research, structured classroom observation, instructional observation, lesson observation	Etnografi, participant observation, fieldwork, ethnographic research
קשורות	6	6	5
תקציר	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.	Classroom observation is a field research method in which a trained observer systematically watches, documents, and analyzes teaching and learning events as they occur in a real classroom setting. It can be structured (using a predefined coding instrument such as Flanders Interaction Analysis or CLASS), semi-structured, or open-ended (ethnographic notes), and is used across educational research, teacher professional development, school evaluation, and curriculum studies to generate ecologically valid evidence about instructional practice.	Ethnography is a qualitative research tradition in which a researcher immerses themselves in a social group or community over an extended period — typically three to six months or longer — to study its culture, values, and behaviours in their natural setting. Originating in social and cultural anthropology, and consolidated as a rigorous method by Bronisław Malinowski in the early twentieth century, ethnography produces rich, contextualised accounts of how people live, work, and make meaning together.