Roadblocks in Teacher Action Research: Navigating a Bumpy Path

• In Event: Roundtable Session 46
  In Roundtable Session: Action Research: Challenges and a Promising Future

Abstract

Experiencing roadblocks, or “mess” in the process of conducting teacher action research, is an often experienced, yet rarely discussed as part of the process of conducting qualitative research, particularly in the complex settings of classrooms and schools. We propose to present what happens in our teacher education classrooms when teacher researchers hit roadblocks. We identify the types of roadblocks the teacher action researchers experience, and then study in-depth, exemplary cases of how these researchers who hit roadblocks use the experience to create more nuanced understandings of classrooms and schools.

Authors

• Megan Blumenreich, City College of New York - CUNY

• Julie R. Horwitz, Rhode Island College