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1. It is not just problem solving. Action research involves problem posing. It starts from a view of
problems as pathologies. It is motivated by a quest to
improve and understand the world by changing it and learning
how to improve it from the effects of the changes made. |
2. It is not research
on other people. Action research is research by particular
people on their own work to help them improve what they do. Action research
does not treat people as objects. It treats people as
autonomous, responsible agents who participate actively in
making their own histories by knowing what they are doing. |
3. It is not the
scientific method applied to teaching. It is not Clinical Research. It is concerned with changing
situations, not just interpreting them. It takes the
researcher into view. Action research is a systematically
evolving process of changing both the researcher and the
situations in which he or she works. |
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