Joy Mounter Research Methods Unit, MA 1 MA Unit ‘Research Methods in Education’

If I want the children in my class to extend their thinking and develop their own values and learning theories, how can I show the development of their learning? How do I research this in my classroom? Word Count 4299 In my previous essays I have explored my living educational values and how I feel a tension between those values I hold dear and the ability to put them into practise in my classroom. Through my own action research and reflections from sharing and listening to ideas at the Tuesday MA group at Bath University I am living closer to my living values as my own teaching and classroom reflect these. Through the process of Action Research I have clarified and refined my own living values and the ability to articulate them and change them into actions. This assignment will closely examine the research methods I have used to reflect on the space I have created to encourage the children in my class not only to grow within the space of my ‘educational values ’ but to explore their own and formulate their own theories for learning in the 21st century. I agree with Morse, (1992) tha