什么是行动研究-外语教学与研究出版社.ppt

行动研究理论篇 北京外国语大学中国外语教育研究中心 文秋芳 Email：wenqiufang@bfsu.edu.cn 研修目标 通过上午的研修，你们期待着能够回答下列问题： 什么是行动研究？ 为什么要从事行动研究？ 行动研究的流程是什么？ What is action research (AR)? What have you already known about doing action research? Please give one example to illustrate your understanding if you can. Paper One Defining action research(1) It seeks to bring together with action and reflection, theory and practice, in participation with others, in the pursuit of practical solutions to issues of pressing concern to people, and more generally the flourishing of individual persons and their communities (Reason and Bradbury, 2001: p.1) Paper One The journey to action research (2) David Brown’s description of the journey captures what many of us seem to feel (P. 13 ) Paper One A shared commitment to democratic social change (3) “research into our ways of life cannot be conducted in the same, value-free way as in the natural sciences”(p.13) Knowledge comes from doing. Action researchers feel compelled to act collectively on and with that knowledge (p.14). Action researchers are doers. Paper One The integration of theory and practice(4) ….action research goes beyond the notion that theory can inform practice, to a recognition that theory can and should be generated through practice, ….that theory is really only useful insofar as it is put in the service of a practice focused on achieving positive social change (p.15) There is much work left to be done in adequately articulating strong theoretical foundations for our work as action researchers (p.16) Paper One Relationships for learning and action (5) ‘There are those who say that direct action is not, nor should be, the responsibility of social scientists (p.17). Paper One Defining action research(1) It seeks to bring together with action and reflection, theory and practice, in participation with others, in the pursuit of practical solutions to issues of pressing concern to people, and more generally the flourishing of individual person