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Action Research for Educational, Professional, and Personal Change
(previously Evaluation of Educational Change)

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Syllabi and important materials
[|Spring 09 syllabus] Notes on Teaching/Learning interactions for Spr 09 [|Spring 08 syllabus] [|Spring 07 syllabus] [|Spring 06 syllabus]

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Action Research Units
Overview of Action research cycles and epicycles General Framework for Exchanges and Inquiry Specific Points for 693 Exchanges and Inquiry

Initial Action Research tasks Brain Food Schedule resulting from Action Research Activity during first 06 class meeting Unit for 2006 class on "Helping each other prepare for the post-CCT future in which each of you attempt to create supportive community for your professional and personal development" Notes on research and planning from individual projects

Other Activities
Links to students' course-related wikipages Small group guidelines Clippings (Annotated links or references to items in newspapers and other media) > 2009 > 2008 2006 Closing activity on "Personal and Professional Development towards competency as an agent of the educational (or related) changes you seek" 2007 Closing activity on same topic 

Summaries of issues and questions from readings
//insert new summaries by alphabetical order of first author// Backer, et al. (2002) Case study and analysis: The Center for the Improvement of Teaching. Carr and Kemmis (1986) Becoming Critical CEDAC (1995) Our Economy: Our Future Greenwald, Learning from Problems Greenwood and Levin (1998)"Introduction To Action Research" Hitchcock and Hughes (1995) Research and the Teacher: A Qualitative Introduction to School-based Research Hunt (1985) "The dilemma in the classroom Madison Metropolitan School District (2001) Classroom action research. McLeod, et al. (2001) "Changing how we work." Metcalf (2002) "Reading between the lines." Rokovich Senge et al. (2000) "Fostering communities that learn," in Schools That Learn. New York: Currency,459-465. Taylor (2005) "Epilogue," in Unruly Complexity Woodhead (1988) "When psychology informs public policy"