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This is a 5 page paper discussing different issues in relation to action research. Sample articles are also discussed. The research process called action research or participatory action research (PAR) was introduced in studies in social sciences in the late 1940s. Since then it has been used in studies on cultures and communities and is intended for not only a comprehensive look at the issues of concern within a community but is also designed to promote social and political change as a result of the research. More recently it has been used extensively in areas of education regarding internal and external forces and intend to promote processes within the educational systems which need to be changed especially education of the oppressed and areas of inequality within the system.
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and is intended for not only a comprehensive look at the issues of concern within a community but is also designed to promote social and political change as a result
of the research. More recently it has been used extensively in areas of education regarding internal and external forces and intend to promote processes within the educational systems which need
to be changed especially education of the oppressed and areas of inequality within the system. In the educational research paradigm, action research
is defined as "a systematic method of inquiry in a collaborative effort between schools and personnel for the purpose of reflecting upon and improving classroom teaching and outcomes" (Henderson, Hunt
and Wester, 1999). The process of action research is to evaluate and define the involvement of institutions, training in relation to preservice and inservice educators, emphasis of programs, knowledge base
of connection between practitioner and classroom theory, among other issues in education. Action research has traditionally been defined in a number of
ways: as a method of inquiry undertaken by classroom teachers for the purpose of improving their own practices; as a combination of approaches to improve classroom teaching and outcomes; as
a systematic and recursive inquiry and reflection in a collaborative learning community directed toward the improvement of practice; as a method of inquiry undertaken by classroom teachers for the purpose
of reflecting upon and improving their own practices; and as a creative problem solving and research-based decision making designed to solve immediate problems (Henderson, Hunt and Wester, 1999).
Orlando Fals-Borda released an article in 1988 which explored some of the historical and methodological aspects of participatory action research (PAR). Fals-Borda reminds researchers in
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