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JOHN ELLIOT


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Biography

Emeritus Professor of Education at theUniversity of East Angia! U"#

A founding mem$er and former director of

the internationay accaimed %entre forAppied &esearch in Education '%A&E(#

)ean of education from *++,-*++.

/e 0no1n internationay for deveopingthe theory and practice of action researchin the conte2ts of curricuum and teacherdeveopment#


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Aso a founding editor of theEducationa Action &esearch Journa#


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3ENE&AL I)EA

Promoted the concept of the 4teacheras researcher5

Aim6 1as to use research inimproving educationa practice! andit 1oud $e carried out $ypractitioners themseves not $y

e2terna agents#'third party(


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E7ective curricuar improvementscoud ony come a$out through $eingdeveoped and tested in the

cassroom $y teachers8 indeed! thatthis 1as the core of a properunderstanding of teacher

professionaism#


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constant evoution and rede9nition ofthe origina goa through a series of

reconnaissances recurring everycyce#

The reconnaissance necessariy

incudes some degree of anaysis# Permits much greater :e2i$iity! and

see0s to ;###recapture some of the


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Athough Le1in5s mode is an e2ceent$asis for starting! Eiott argued that

The genera idea shoud $e ao1edto shift#

It is a statement 1hich in0s to anidea to action#

It aso refers to a state of situationone 1ishes to improve#


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&econnaisssance shoud invoveanaysis as 1e fact 9nding# It shoudconstanty occur in the spira of

activities! rather than occur at the$eginning#

Eg6 students seem to 1aste a ot of

time in cass# Ho1 can I increase thetime students spend 4on tas05@


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)escri$ing the facts of situation6'hep carify the pro$em(

/hich pupis are 1asting time@

/hat are they doing 1hen they arefree@


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B( e2paining the facts of thesituation '%ritica anaysis of theconte2t in 1hich they arise

Ho1 do they arise@ simpe activitiesprovided

%reate hypothesis $ased on the

anaysis

Eg6 simpe activities provided eadstudents to 1aste their time#


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Impementation is not straight for1ardprocess i0e Le1in said! $ut it has to $emonitored in order to 0no1 the e7ects of

an action#

Ho1 $oth the process of impementation andits e7ects are going to $e monitored@

Use monitoring techniues to provideevidence of ho1 1e the course of action is$eing impemented#

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