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  • Professional Development through Action Research:Case Examples in South African Higher Education

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    Fletcher, Margaret A
    Zuber-Skerritt, Ortrun
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    Zuber-Skerritt, Ortrun D.
    Fletcher, Margaret A.
    Year published
    2008
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    This paper identifies the quality characteristics of a professional development (PD) program on action research (AR) and presents the results of a second-order evaluation of such a program. Three case examples in South African higher education demonstrate how AR methodology has been applied to design, conduct and evaluate the PD program and to identify new ways of learning and improving professional practice in higher education. From data analysis, we distinguish six factors significant in contributing to the quality of the PD program in all three universities: facilitator expertise, adaptive planning, responsive evaluation, ...
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    This paper identifies the quality characteristics of a professional development (PD) program on action research (AR) and presents the results of a second-order evaluation of such a program. Three case examples in South African higher education demonstrate how AR methodology has been applied to design, conduct and evaluate the PD program and to identify new ways of learning and improving professional practice in higher education. From data analysis, we distinguish six factors significant in contributing to the quality of the PD program in all three universities: facilitator expertise, adaptive planning, responsive evaluation, critical events, application, and self-efficacy. On the basis of the evaluation results, we present five models: (1) the AR workshop cycles; (2) characteristics of a quality PD program; (3) a PD program on and through AR; (4) three levels of reflection on AR; and (5) meta-action research.
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    Journal Title
    Systemic Practice and Action Research
    Volume
    21
    Issue
    1
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1007/s11213-007-9083-3
    Copyright Statement
    © 2008 Springer Netherlands. This is an electronic version of an article published in Systemic Practice and Action Research, Volume 21, Issue 1, pp 73-96, 2008. Systemic Practice and Action Research is available online at: http://link.springer.com/ with the open URL of your article.
    Subject
    Environmental Sciences
    Information and Computing Sciences
    Studies in Human Society
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/23055
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