Facilitating teachers as action researchers and reflective practitioners: new issues and proposals |
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| Authors: | Sofia Avgitidou |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Early Childhood Education, University of Western Macedonia, Florina, Greecesavgitidou@gmail.com https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7157-4720 |
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| Abstract: | ABSTRACTIn this article I reflect on my experiences facilitating teachers as researchers and reflective practitioners and the importance of enhancing the dynamic and complementary relationship between theory, research, practice and reflection at every step of action research. Given the complexity of teachers’ participation in action research, I drew on a reflexive research-based account within a second-order process of action research to support a group of teacher-researchers to rethink their understanding of participatory education and transform their own practices. This research-based account describes the challenges faced, the decisions made, and the actions taken, all shaped by ongoing dialogues with teachers’ beliefs and practices, with the goals of action research, and with the processes of gradual transformations observed in both the teachers’ thinking and practice and in my own as a facilitator. The present study adds to the discussion of the interrelationships between theory, research, practice and reflection by providing an example of their enactment at every step of action research in order to support participatory education. |
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| Keywords: | Facilitator’s role second order process of action research teachers as researchers and reflective practitioners participatory education |
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