In‐Service Education As Collaborative Action Research

Junior High School EFL Teachers’ Attitudes Towards Collaborative Action Research

This study aimed to analyze high school EFL teachers’ attitudes toward collaborative action research (CAR). This study was of both qualitative and quantitative types. The number of the selected samples of this research, based on the convenience sampling method, were 20 male and female EFL teachers teaching at the Education and Training Organization of Isfahan Province. As the instrument of this...

Action Research as Inquiry for Education Students

Form and Substance in Inservice Teacher Education

Much of the reform rhetoric about professional development is geared toward the form that such development should take. This literature advocates collaboration among teachers, schoolwide participation in professional development, programs that extend over time and are interspersed with classroom practice, programs that include classroom visitations, and so forth. Much less has been said about w...

A collaborative-interactive model for mental health consultation: teacher inservice education by psychiatric clinicians.

The i m p o r t a n c e of br inging k n o w l e d g e f r o m the c l in ica l m e n t a l hea l th f ie ld in to school sys t ems has o f t e n been d iscussed in the l i terat u re [ 1 ] . Models and specif ic t e c h n i q u e s for br inging a b o u t in teract i on b e t w e e n schoo l p e r s o n n e l and cl inicians have var ied p r i m a r i l y acco rd ing to the o r i e n t a t i o...

Medical education practice-based research networks: Facilitating collaborative research.

BACKGROUND Research networks formalize and institutionalize multi-site collaborations by establishing an infrastructure that enables network members to participate in research, propose new studies, and exploit study data to move the field forward. Although practice-based clinical research networks are now widespread, medical education research networks are rapidly emerging. AIMS In this artic...