Action Research and When Suitable

Action research is applicable when an educationist or any researcher doing research in education seeks to acquire information by solving a particular education problem. For example, in a school setup action research serves as a reflection tool that educators use to evaluate on their practices. Types of Action Research Design Different groups view action research from different dimensions. From an educational dimension, there are two critical types of action research design, each of them with different applications. They include participatory and practical action research. • A teacher-researcher selects a localized area of concern, decides data compilation approaches, conducts analysis, interpretation, and development of a model or conclusions that help in formulation of action plans. • A teacher-researcher has specific identifiable procedural methods for reflecting on their practices.

• A teacher-researcher has an action plan power to research on an educational practice for personal benefits in career development. In summary, a teacher should collaborate, form a professional well-structured approach to research, and implement an action plan in the education sector in a local setting. b. Third, it is a practical and shared or mutual. Researchers seek to identify and know the spread of knowledge, communication, unproductive, and unsatisfying relationships. Moreover, aims at freeing people from unjust structures that bar individuals from acting freely because of the commons syndrome of uncultured beliefs. The fifth aspect is that PAR is critical because of provides logics for people to become free agents and act independently from social media issues of socialization. Lastly, participatory action research is reflexive as it allows for a spiral of reasoning and acting.

Fifth is that action research has a plan of action that seeks to respond to the real problem through a series of presentations and execution of research agenda, or it could be a written plan either formal or informal indicating the approaches to use in research. The last characteristic of action research is the sharing of research to educators interested in using the results. The sharing might be with a local institution, community, and any interested educationists. Ethical Concerns in Action Research Action research entails collaborations among interested parties and it attracts ethical concerns. The closeness and mutual arrangements between researcher and respondents means that the acquired data is not coercive. Besides, data analysis followed the participatory action research conventions and the teacher-researcher with the external evaluator had chances of asking the learners if this research empowered them.