Teacher's Perceptions And Practices Of Action Reacher In Communit Schools Of Nepal
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2021-12
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Faculty of Education
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.
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Perception, Action Reseach