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Setlhare, Rubina; Wood, Lesley – Educational Action Research, 2020
Teachers working in under-resourced contexts struggle to provide psychosocial support to learners. In this article, we focus on 10 teacher participants' reflections of how a transformative action research process enhanced their collective capacity for initiating sustainable learner support. A linked participatory action learning and action…
Descriptors: Action Research, Teacher Researchers, Sustainability, Active Learning
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Stern, Julian – Educational Action Research, 2015
This article explores ways of studying loneliness and solitude in schools. Research methodologies are considered, and descriptions are given of various previous studies, as well as of the research carried out by the author for a "being alone" project. The deeply personal nature of being alone, in a broad theoretical tradition of…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Social Isolation, Research Methodology, Philosophy
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McLaughlin, Colleen; Ayubayeva, Nazipa – Educational Action Research, 2015
This article tells the story of an attempt to bring about major educational reform of the curriculum and educational values in Kazakhstan, using action research as part of that process. The article begins with a brief and selective review of the literature on aspects of emotion and moves to an account of the context and history of the reforms,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Action Research, Educational Change, Curriculum Development
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Burrows, Andrea; Thomas, Jonathan; Woods, Angie; Suess, Robert; Dole, Deborah – Educational Action Research, 2012
The focus of this article is the exploration of and an explanation of student researchers' affect and activity in an action research project. Using a hermeneutical theoretical framework we argue that the researcher group as a whole constructs a wave process and at the same time each individual researcher in the group creates a wave process that…
Descriptors: Action Research, Researchers, Personal Narratives, Graduate Students
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Burman, Erica – Educational Action Research, 2006
The paper addresses contemporary relations between emotions, gender and feminist action research. Starting from analysis of the increasing emotionalisation of everyday life, it explores the quasi-feminist--or what the author calls "feminised"--forms of incitement to reflexive confession that are increasingly gaining favour within professional and…
Descriptors: Feminism, Action Research, Individual Development, Psychological Patterns