Teacher's Perceptions And Practices Of Action Reacher In Communit Schools Of Nepal

Abstract

This study aims to explore the community school teachers’ perceptions and practices of implementing action research in their classrooms. Further, it attempts to investigate how they have perceived action research as one of the professional development tools and how they have been practicing in their classroom.This study has precisely carried out in order to understand the community school teachers’ perception and practices on action research. This study intends to find out the problems and challenges that they have been facing while conducting action research. Selecting 50 community school teachers purposively from Sunsari district as sample population, I used mixed method research design. Analyzing the collected data, I found that most of the teachers are well known about action research. They have positive perceptions on action research and they have been doing action research in their classroom regularly. From my research it is also found that a few teachers are not aware of action research as they take action research as time consuming and difficult to conduct. This thesis consists of five chapters. Chapter one consists of introduction of action research, background of action research, practices of action research in Western countries,practices of action research bin South Asian countries and also the practice of action research in Nepal. Chapter one also consists of statement of the problem, rational of the study, objectives of the study and significance of the study, research questions and de-limitations of the study. Similarly, chapter two consists of review of related literature, implication of the review of related literature and conceptual framework. Likewise, chapter three consists of methodologies, sample population and data collection procedure. Chapter four consists of analysis and interpretation of data and demographics of the participants. Finally, chapter five consists of findings, conclusion and recommendations. The final section contains references and appendixes.