The Difficulties and Solutions of Primary School Teachers' Action Research

DOI

10.2991/cesses-19.2019.62How to use a DOI?

Keywords

action research; primary school teachers; professional development

Abstract

In view of the fact that action research has received the attention of the education community in recent years. This paper observes and explores the doubts and difficulties of primary school teachers when applying action research to pursue professional development. First of all, it talks about the four common problems of primary school teachers' action research, including: first, discriminating the focus of action research is the action or the research; second, exploring the role of action research is an academic framework or an oppressive structure; third, thinking about the motivation of action research is the internal needs or the external requirements; fourth, evaluating the result of action research as the output or the achievement. Those four problems explain the limitations and powerlessness of the teachers, and point out the difficulties of primary school teachers' action research. Then, in anticipation of the vision of primary school teachers' action research, this paper attempts to refer to three possible approaches to solve the difficulties, including: first, primary school teachers should have the consciousness of being "intellectuals" and "researchers"; second, primary school teachers should be provided with external scaffolds; third, it is possible to show the knowledge of primary school teachers and construct their knowledge system. In this way, the teacher's self-action and reflection are enhanced, and the professional status of primary school teachers should become the grassroots strength of educational innovation.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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