TEACHER BETWEEN REFLECTIVE PRACTITIONER AND ACTION RESEARCHER
TEACHER BETWEEN REFLECTIVE PRACTITIONER AND ACTION RESEARCHER

Author(s): Anca Cehan
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Education, Foreign languages learning
Published by: Biblioteca Ştiinţifică a Universităţii de Stat Alecu Russo
Keywords: reflective practice; action research; language teacher; methodology; postmodern paradigm;
Summary/Abstract: The paper looks at what a language teacher’s reflective work and action research entail, focusing on the contemporary move away from the positivist paradigm toward a postmodern one. It describes various types of eflective and action research practices and their characteristics, and various research methodologies. It also raises questions about these methodologies, the practices’ goals and outcomes, and the practitioner’s beliefs about “research”, “knowledge”, “understanding” and “emancipation” in the relativist postmodern era.

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