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Hi Mark

Thanks for sharing the document.  I really enjoy reading about how others teach action research.  Do you have them work through multiple cycles?  I did not see any discussion of that in your template.  Do you talk about the iterative process of action research?  There are lots of good ideas that could be add to our  teaching action research wiki
(ccar.wikispaces.com.  The site is laid out in a way similar to your paper and you might want to add any of the sections.  We also have a place for sharing syllabi and I  you share the whole document as a course syllabus.  It would be great if you did this.  I think that the more we see how different people action research, the more ideas we will gather.  I recently added a section on ethical issues because a number of people in the US are dealing with IRB (instutional review Boards) at their universities.  Do you have a similar process at your university?  The challenge of action research done in cycles is that they cycles lead into each other and change is constant.  A review process suggests a static design.  In action research, the design is more fluid.  There is  a one-question poll that it would be great if people from this list would take.

Margaret

On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Jack Whitehead <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

On 6 Aug 2011, at 16:20, geisha rebolledo wrote:

Thank you Jack and Lonnie for the references!! I appreciate this  so much. From this part of the world it  is very difficult to keep up to day with  recent publications  like those you mentioned. Take care . Greetings, g.

Dear Geisha (and all), good to know that the references are useful. I do hope that you will post details of your work/research with neighbourhoods in Caracas, Venezuela. I'm convinced that you have much of value to share, especially in relation to your relational expression of values of community.

Dear All - Here are some details of a symposium on the 7th September at the 2011 British Educational Research Association Annual Conference with m
embers of the Practitioner-Researcher Group of the Centre for the Child and Family of Liverpool Hope University,
 on Transforming Educational Knowledge through Practitioner-Research at

http://www.actionresearch.net/writings/bera/bera11sympropnojw.pdf

Nigel is presenting on, How can I continue to improve my practice as a manager and a leader in Children's Services at a time of transformational change?
Christine is presenting on, 
How Can I Continue to Improve My Practice as a Senior Inclusion Officer?
Marie is presenting on, 
How do I improve what I am doing with a living theory praxis?

Mark Schofield has posted the following note to the Action Research Africa Network with details of how he has helped to begin school-based research activities. Participants have already responded with their thanks for the ideas:

Begin forwarded message:

From: Mark Schofield <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 4 August 2011 14:42:33 GMT+01:00
Subject: Re: action research with school leaders
Reply-To: Action Research Africa Network <[log in to unmask]>

Dear Colleagues
Attached is a tool which I have used colleagues and students to use to
get into school based research activities. It can be adapted and
customised and I know it is not perfect. You may think it is useful, or
terrible, but I offer it in the spirit of sharing and a hope that it may
be useful somewhere.
Best wishes and regards to you all
Mark (from a wet, rainy England)

Professor Mark Schofield
Dean of Teaching and Learning Development
Academic Director, the SOLSTICE Centre for Excellence in Teaching and
Learning
Director of the Centre for Learning and Teaching Research
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National Teaching Fellow
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