教育研究以前被認為是大專校教研人員才會參與的工作，一般的前線老師最多只會協助研究的進行，甚少自己計畫做研究。香港教育學院在職普通話教師培訓課程，要求老師做行動研究。本論文的目的是：探討參加該課程的中小學普通話教師對做行動研究的看法，以及他們曾嘗試做行動研究的範疇，藉此讓有意做行動研究的普通話老師得以參考，同時也會看行動研究與普通話老師專業成長的關係。
Educational research has previously been regarded as activity undertaken by both teaching and research members of tertiary institutions. Frontline schoolteachers, rarely conducting research on their own, usually take up the role of an assistant at most. However, the Hong Kong Institute of Education has made it a requirement for participants of the Putonghua Teachers In-service Training Course to conduct action research. The objectives of this article are threefold: (1) to survey course participants' views with regards of conducting action research; (2) to present a profile of the scopes of their action research for the reference of Putonghua-teachers who are interested in conducting such research; and (3) to assess the relationship between action research and professional growth of Putonghua teachers.
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This article reports on both writers' experiences as participants in a collaborative action research project in Hong Kong. The article draws a distinction between teachers as research consumers and teachers as research producers. The authors suggest that active teacher agency in research is a positive element in the professional development of English teachers. Teachers primarily become research producers through involvement in some form of action research project. Although action research is increasingly recognized as a teacher competency in Hong Kong, it is nevertheless difficult for teachers to initiate and conduct when research is not seen as a core professional activity by their school with subsequent limited support. The authors view collaboration with professional researchers as a positive way for teachers to be apprenticed into the research process. The article ends by suggesting possible strategies that would support and encourage teachers to undertake research.
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The qualitative educational research literature is increasingly advocating the use of literary/artistic techniques. This article describes and evaluates educational action researches by three art teachers, and questions why they have not capitalised methodologically on their artistic expertise. Analysis of commonalities in practitioner-based research in education and practice-based research in art and design reveals significant differences in these two paradigms however. Whereas artists and educational researchers both engage in qualitative problem solving and may use the same kinds of materials and tools, they develop different kinds of hypotheses, look for different sorts of evidence and apply different quality controls.
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