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Action teaching is a style of instruction that aims to teach students about subject material while also contributing to the betterment of society. [1] The approach represents an educational counterpart to action research, a method first developed by Kurt Lewin in the 1940s to address racial prejudice, anti-Semitism, and other societal problems through the integration of social science and ...
Action research is an interactive inquiry process that balances problem-solving actions implemented in a collaborative context with data-driven collaborative analysis or research to understand underlying causes enabling future predictions about personal and organizational change.
Action research in the workplace took its initial inspiration from Lewin's work on organizational development (and Dewey's emphasis on learning from experience). Lewin's seminal contribution involves a flexible, scientific approach to planned change that proceeds through a spiral of steps, each of which is composed of 'a circle of planning, action, and fact-finding about the result of the ...
Discipline-based education research (DBER) is an interdisciplinary research enterprise that "investigates learning and teaching in a discipline [normally from the STEM fields] from a perspective that reflects the discipline's priorities, worldview, knowledge, and practices." [13] Examples include: Astronomy education research (AER)
Research in Teacher Education was launched in April 2011. Originally the journal was called "Research in Secondary Teacher Education (RiSTE)". The editorial board consists of editor Gerry Czerniawski (who is also a council member of the International Forum for Teacher Educator Development), assistant editor Caroline Brennan, online periodical editor David G. Wells and book reviews editor David ...
Document and disseminate examples of university work that benefit communities and the lives of their members. Support and encourage international, regional and national academic associations in their efforts to strengthen university civic engagement efforts and create scholarly recognition of service and action in teaching and research.
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The functions of NCES have existed in some form since 1867, when Congress passed legislation providing "That there shall be established at the City of Washington, a department of education, for the purpose of collecting such statistics and facts as shall show the condition and progress of education in the several States and Territories, and of diffusing such information respecting the ...