Tuesday, May 13, 2008

More Information About Action Research


Action Research project aims to reduce teacher-student barrier by inviting students to be evaluators. A democratic relationship between teacher and students will be established if the teacher is receptive to criticism and students are not scared of giving constructive criticism. It is hope that by going through this process explicit change in action research group may bring forth implicit change in organization (school).

Nevertheless, this practice is too sensational and it may appear to be alienated to most of the teachers. It involves great courage to make a 'change' as in our normal practice, teachers are not used to be assessed by their students. It is indisputable that 'change' is uncertain and risk-taking. and at times, it can be precarious. Change under compulsion is defensive, superficial and short-lived (Fullan 1994, p.3.). As such, we can see that action research which involves 'change' is more of a political process (Kemmis & McTaggart 1988, p.22)

It is understandable that most of the time action researchers are left working on their own. This is particularly true in Malaysian schools where any teacher who is willing to take up action research may have great problem in getting colleagues to be involved in his or her action research project. Teachers need a platform to have a better understanding of the processes leading to the results of schooling (Kemmis & McTaggart 1988, p.32).

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