Ethical and Political Dimensions of Action Research and Lesson Study: Reflections from a Research Project on a Controversial Issue in Cyprus

Autor/inn/en	Stylianou, Polyxeni; Zembylas, Michalinos
Titel	Ethical and Political Dimensions of Action Research and Lesson Study: Reflections from a Research Project on a Controversial Issue in Cyprus
Quelle	In: Educational Action Research, 27 (2019) 4, S.581-594 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Zembylas, Michalinos)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0965-0792
DOI	10.1080/09650792.2018.1483835
Schlagwörter	Intervention; Action Research; Research Projects; Foreign Countries; Reflection; Death; Grief; Elementary School Curriculum; Controversial Issues (Course Content); Lesson Plans; Instructional Improvement; Elementary School Students; Grade 5; Elementary School Teachers; Teacher Collaboration; Cyprus + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Projektforschung; Forschungsvorhaben; Ausland; Sterbefall; Tod; Todesfall; Trauer; Controversial issues; Kontroverse; Lesson planning; Unterrichtsplanung; Unterrichtsqualität; School year 05; 5. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 05; Elementary school; Teacher; Teachers; Grundschule; Volksschule; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Lehrerkooperation; Zypern
Abstract	As educational interventions that integrate death issues in the school curriculum are rarely designed, implemented and evaluated, our action research (AR) project aimed at investigating the complexities of integrating the concepts of loss and grief in the primary school curriculum of Cyprus. The purpose of this paper is to identify and analyze convergences and divergences between AR and lesson study (LS), as they emerged in our project. We particularly focus on the ways that AR served to legitimate ethically and politically those aspects of the project that constituted the experimentation of lesson plans on loss and grief. The AR and LS elements of our project functioned differently and served different purposes, and we speculate that this is not irrelevant to the controversial aspects of the lesson plans' topic, namely loss and grief. The paper argues that it may be strategically important, for ethical and political reasons, to both demarcate and associate AR and LS, navigating between them, particularly if a controversial issue is involved. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01