Search results for "Action research"

Developing inclusive education policy and practice in Zanzibar : collaborative action research

2018

This doctoral dissertation, which consists of three interrelated sub-studies and an overarching summary, explores the inclusive education development process in Zanzibar, Tanzania. The purpose of the research is to contribute to the development of inclusive policies and practices in order to increase the presence, participation and achievement of all learners. The overarching research question investigated in this research was as follows: How is inclusive education developed in Zanzibar, and how can it be better integrated into the education system? This question was divided into six sub-questions. Each of the three interrelated sub-studies in this dissertation focused on specific sub-quest…

Introduction: The Pedagogical Obstacle of the Phenomenal Forms

2016

This book is a further development from a previous one, published only in Spanish, whose title can be translated as The Copernican turn and the social sciences (Villacanas de Castro, 2013). It was a philosophical work relating to a general epistemological problem lying at the heart of the social and natural sciences. On the other hand, the present volume is firmly rooted in pedagogy. This difference reflects the professional journey that I have made in the meantime, from being a Graduate Student at a Faculty of Philosophy to becoming a member of staff at a Faculty of Education, where I currently lecture and carry out research. Despite the various shifts brought about by this transition, an …

Teaching programming by emphasizing self-direction: How did students react to the active role required of them?

2013

Lecturing is known to be a controversial form of teaching. With massed classrooms, in particular, it tends to constrain the active participation of students. One of the remedies applied to programming education is to use technology that can vitalize interaction in the classroom, while another is to base teaching increasingly on programming activities. In this article, we present the first results of an exploratory study, in which we teach programming without lectures, exams, or grades, by heavily emphasizing programming activity, and, in a pedagogical sense, student self-direction. This article investigates how students reacted to the active role required of them and what issues emerged in …

Scaffolding teachers to foster inclusive pedagogy and presence through collaborative action research

2017

Teachers can be influential change agents in transforming their schools if they regularly reflect on their pedagogical practices, looking for improvements that will help all learners reach their fu...

RIE : revista de investigación educativa

2016

<p class="RESUMENCURSIVA">En este trabajo presentamos una experiencia de investigación educativa llevada a cabo en un centro de Educación Secundaria Obligatoria (ESO), cuya finalidad es conocer las problemáticas derivadas de la comunicación entre el alumnado del primer ciclo de secundaria dentro del mundo virtual, así como mejorar la calidad de vida de las personas involucradas en dicha problemática.</p><p class="RESUMENCURSIVA">El diseño del proceso de investigación empleado es emergente y su metodología mixta. El curso y necesidades de la investigación nos llevaron a comenzar un proceso de investigación-acción participante, en la que el propio alumnado y sus familiares f…

Ympäristölähtöisen terveyskasvatuspedagogiikan kehittäminen narratiivisena toimintatutkimuksena

2009

The Art-Based Methods in Developing Transversal Competence

2019

This article describes a project called “The art based methods in developing transversal competence” funded by The Finnish National Board of Education. The article is based on the hermeneutic phenomenological approach in action research. The project developed learning environments as well as project-based learning with emphasis on the art-based methods and transversal competence approach to learning. The aim was to develop unique and communal well-being in learning. The project offered tools to strengthen teachers’ professional skills to use expressive, art-based methods in different curriculum-based projects. The professional in-service training project included five contact days in six we…

Avaimia sisäiseen vahvistumiseen : Elämän avaimet -koulutus ohjausinterventiona

2015

The Promise and Deception of Participation in Welfare Services for Unemployed Young People

2018

This study examined the role of welfare services in the participative citizenship of young people under 30 years of age outside the labour market. Thematic content analysis of the government’s white papers regarding participation policies, as well as participatory action research projects in two Finnish towns, were used to identify factors that enable or hinder participation for this group of service users. The paradigm of participation was critically examined with reference to the theoretical framework of Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno’s “dialectic of Enlightenment”, which proposes the parallel existence of the promise and the deception of Enlightenment. The results indicated that user …

Il ri-ciclo socialmente innovativo come attivatore di sviluppo urbano e regionale. I brownfield come contesto di analisi e azione.

The research topic is the re-cycling of brownfields with social innovative practices, and how it can activate the urban and regional development. The research analyses critically and interprets the re-cycle theory (Marini and Bocchi 2014; Carta 2014) developed by the Italian Research “Re-cycle Italy” (PRIN) focusing on its social innovative aspects (Moulaert et al., 2005; Phills et al., 2008, Tekin and Tekdogan, 2015). Nowadays, the community-based planning is essential for the spatial regeneration processes. These realities generate a new sense of consciousness and a huge network of local activists, social enterprises able to develop the place in an incremental way. Therefore, it is import…