Exploration of teachers’ attitudes towards Action Research implementation and its influence on their teaching practice
dc.contributor.author | Jumankulova, Zhanar | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-12-06T07:56:45Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-12-06T07:56:45Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019-06 | |
dc.description.abstract | Action Research is a widespread practice of teacher inquiry implemented to develop teachers’ research and reflective skills. It is considered to be an opportunity to bridge research and teaching practice. Teachers are supposed to identify some issues and solve them through Action Research. The project of Action Research has been recently launched in Kazakhstan education system since 2012. It was firstly introduced in Nazarbayev Intellectual schools in 2012, and then it has been disseminated to the mainstream schools of Kazakhstan. A big number of teachers were involved in the process its implementation. That is why, it is essential to analyze teachers’ understanding and views on Action Research. The purpose of the study was to explore secondary school teachers’ attitudes towards the project of Action Research and its effect on their teaching practice. The qualitative design was applied in this study to receive a detailed understanding of the issue. The purposeful sampling method was used to choose five teachers of the mainstream school of Taraz city. The maximum variation was selected to get different perspectives on the research questions. The following criteria were used to choose the participants: subjects, years of conducting Action Research and research topic. The findings of the study presented an overview of teachers’ attitudes taking into account professional and emotional aspects as well as the obstacles they met. In addition, the results highlighted the areas of teaching practice that were under the influence of Action Research. The study also suggested some recommendations for policy makers and school administrators on how to contribute to the development of Action Research through understanding teachers’ opinion. | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Jumankulova, Z (2019). Exploration of teachers’ attitudes towards Action Research implementation and its influence on their teaching practice | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://nur.nu.edu.kz/handle/123456789/4321 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Nazarbayev University Graduate School of Education | |
dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States | * |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ | * |
dc.title | Exploration of teachers’ attitudes towards Action Research implementation and its influence on their teaching practice | en_US |
dc.type | Master's thesis | en_US |
workflow.import.source | science |
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