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Dear friends,
I worked hardly two days and two nights to
translate and title video recordings where you could see live example
of our
effort to apply action research in our educational practice.
First video (available at http://www.e-lar.net/videos/Creativity-en2.wmv
11 Mb[1])
was starting point in Vesna Simic’s and my action research. Our shared
value is
creativity, so we try to find a way how to fulfil this value. We
realised that
creativity is enough fulfil in her teaching of arts. But she confessed,
and we
find evidence for that when we analysed other video recordings of her
teaching, that
she realised subject society and nature[2]
on traditional and uncreative way. So we decided to improve creativity
in that
part of her educational practice.
On second and third videos (available at http://www.e-lar.net/videos/AI2_0002.wmv
30.5 Mb and at http://www.e-lar.net/videos/Validation.wmv
29 Mb) we could find that children should not be treated only as
participants
in action research of adults (teachers) but also as co-researcher or
standalone
researchers. Marica Zovko, class-teacher was mentor to her students and
I was
mentor to her. Her students evidenced that they understand process of
action
research and know how to apply them to improve their living practice.
Warm regards,
Branko