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Doing Your Action Research (AR): A Brief Guide, by Dr. Moira Laidlaw and Dean Tian Fengjun From China's Experimental Centre for Educational Action Research at Guyuan Teachers College - (75600), Ningxia, P.R of China,


Here is Moira Laidlaw's paper on, How can I help to enable sustainable educational development in our AR Centre at Guyuan Teachers College? From China's Experimental Centre for Educational Action Research at Guyuan Teachers College - (75600), Ningxia, P.R of China, for the Monday evening educational conversation on the 12th July 2004 in the Department of Education of the University of Bath.


My EMail friend Moira is an international expert in Action Research, and has been in Guyuan for the past 3 years, working w/England's VSO.

If this field interests you, (1)check out the materials on this "JOB-Related" page, at Promoting Change in China's Classrooms, and (2)contact me.

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More available from the AR Website

Here are the Action Research Report Abstracts For the British Educational Research Association Practitioner-Researcher Day at the University of Bath on the 19th June 2004. From China's Experimental Centre for Educational Action Research at Guyuan Teachers College - (75600), Ningxia, P.R of China


Here is Fang Fang's Action Research report - How can I foster non-English majors' interest and motivation?China's Experimental Centre for Educational Action Research in Foreign Languages Teaching, at Guyuan Teachers' College, Ningxia Province, China, October, 2004)


Here is Tao Rui's Action Research report - How can I improve my students' motivation so they can improve their learning? - A draft case study of AR into Integrated Skills of English, to view in your browser Foreign Languages and Literature Department, Guyuan Teachers College, Ningxia, P.R. China. June, 2004.


Here is He Lina's Action Research reportHow can I help my students' motivation in speaking? (Foreign Languages and Literature Department, Guyuan Teachers College - (75600), Ningxia, P.R of China)


Here is Wang Ying's Action Research reportHow can I improve students' learning by increasing their interest and confidence in learning English? A case study of AR into College English(Foreign Languages and Literature Department, Guyuan Teachers College - (75600), Ningxia, P.R of China)


Here is Cao Yong's Action Research reportHow can I improve the pronunciation and intonation of the first-year English Majors to meet the demand of the New English Curriculum? June 2004 (Foreign Languages and Literature Department, Guyuan Teachers College - (75600), Ningxia, P.R of China)


Here is Ling Yiwen's Action Research reportHow Can I Improve the Students' Self-Confidence in our Classroom Activities in order to enhance their learning? June 2004 (Foreign Languages and Literature Department, Guyuan Teachers College - (75600), Ningxia, P.R of China)


Here is Liu Binyou's Action Research reportHow Can I Cultivate My Non-English Students' Interests in English? June 2004 (Foreign Languages and Literature Department, Guyuan Teachers College - (75600), Ningxia, P.R of China)


Here is Li Jun's Action Research reportHow can I help the non- English students improve their reading ability? (Foreign Languages and Literature Department, Guyuan Teachers College - (75600), Ningxia, P.R of China)


Here is Liu Hui's Action Research reportHow can I help my students become more active in class? (Foreign Languages and Literature Department, Guyuan Teachers College - (75600), Ningxia, P.R of China)


Here is Liu Xia's Action Research reportHow can I develop students' self-confidence through respect and encouragement? June 2004 (Foreign Languages and Literature Department, Guyuan Teachers College - (75600), Ningxia, P.R of China)


Here is Ma Hong's Action Research reportHow can I help students who are comparatively poor at English? June 2004 (Foreign Languages and Literature Department, Guyuan Teachers College - (75600), Ningxia, P.R of China)


Here is Gong Lixia's draft Action Research reportHow Can I Improve Two Young English Majors� Confidence In English Learning, June 2004 (Foreign Languages and Literature Department, Guyuan Teachers College - (75600), Ningxia, P.R of China)


Here is Li Peidong's draft Action Research reportHow can I improve my students' self-confidence in their class work? by Li Peidong, Draft, May 2004. (Foreign Languages and Literature Department, Guyuan Teachers College - (75600), Ningxia, P.R of China)




Developing Educational Methodologies through a Living Theory Approach to Action Research. Dr. Moira Laidlaw's Inaugural Lecture of China's Experimental Centre for Educational Action Research in Foreign Languages Teaching, for colleagues at the Longdong Institute, Gansu Province, China.
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Developing Some Appropriate Standards of Judgement for our Action Research Enquiries in China. Dr. Moira Laidlaw's Second Lecture for The Longdong Institute, Gansu Province, March, 2004, China's Experimental Centre for Educational Action Research in Foreign Languages Teaching, Guyuan Teachers College.
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View the Preface to Moira Laidlaw's stories from China and access the stories by clicking here




ACTION RESEARCH WITH DR. MOIRA LAIDLAW AT GUYUAN TEACHERS COLLEGE IN NINGXIA PROVINCE, P.R. CHINA

Action researchers at Guyuan Teachers College have a significant contribution to make to our understandings of how to develop inclusional, collective and collaborative approaches to action research that value the creative contributions, integrity and identity of individual action researchers. As I work with my colleagues at Guyuan in the third year (2003-2004) of my Voluntary Service Overseas, I am hoping to learn more about Chinese approaches to action research and to communicate these to other communities of action researchers. Some of the learning resources produced by Jack Whitehead for the groups of teacher-researchers he is working with from the University of Bath, may be of use to my colleagues in Guyuan. In his work with teacher-researchers at John Bentley and Westwood St. Thomas secondary Schools in Wiltshire, Jack has explained why he thinks this work is significant in understanding the nature of living educational standards of judgement and practice in relation to the ideas of other researchers working in different international contexts.You can access this explanation at:

http://www.bath.ac.uk/~edsajw/jbs/jbsconnect.html

As the action research reports of colleagues and students at Guyuan are written, my intention is to share them with you. You can access here the draft of Zhao Xiaohong's enquiry, 'How I can improve my students' motivation so that they can become more responsible for their own learning? An Action Research Enquiry into Integrated Skills of English.'


Moira talking with Haley in Year 8, 2001Click here - the movie clip should open in Quicktime 6.4 or above


Here is Moira's letter of 2nd Nov. 2003 at the end of a Conference on Action Research with colleagues from Guyuan Teachers College, from the Longdong Institute and from the Haiyuan Middle SchoolDOWNLOAD THE AR CONFERENCE LETTER IN WORD FORMAT


Here is Moira's letter of 2nd Nov. 2003 at the end of a Conference on Action Research with colleagues from Guyuan Teachers College, from the Longdong Institute and from the Haiyuan Middle SchoolVIEW THE AR CONFERENCE LETTER IN YOUR BROWSER


Here is Moira's story from September 2003 at the start of her third year of VSO at Guyuan Teacher's CollegeThe Sun Child


Here is Moira's draft of February 2004 on - A Description of my Logic - for presentation at a seminar on the 9th February 2004 in the Department of Education of the University of Bath. Click here


Here is the Action Plan for Improving Practice of Dean Tian Fengjun - of October 2003 to view in your browserClick Here. Foreign Languages Department, Guyuan Teachers College, Ningxia, P.R. China


Here is the Action Plan for Improving Practice of Dean Tian Fengjun - of October 2003 to download in WordClick Here. Foreign Languages Department, Guyuan Teachers College, Ningxia, P.R. China


Helen King's Action Plan. Longdong Institute, 11/3/04.Click Here to view in your Browser


How can I improve my students' participation in class for non-English majors so that they have more interest in learning English?... A case study of AR into college English by Wang Ying, China's Experimental Centre for Educational Action Research, Guyuan Teachers College.Click Here


Planning my Action Research with some preliminary results - Draft by Ling Yi Wen, China's Experimental Centre for Educational Action Research in Foreign Languages Teaching, Guyuan Teachers College, Ningxia, P.R. China. January, 2004. Click Here


Here is the Action Plan for Improving Practice of Dean Tian Fengjun - of October 2003 to download in WordClick Here. Foreign Languages Department, Guyuan Teachers College, Ningxia, P.R. China


Here is Paulus Murray's response to Tao Rui's action research reportClick here to view in your browser


Here is Liang Ruixiu's classroom evaluation of October 2003 to download in WordLiang Ruixiu's classroom evaluation with an introductory paragraph from Moira. Foreign Languages Department, Guyuan Teachers College, Ningxia, P.R. China


Here is Ma Jianfu's reportHow I Have Been Doing My Action Research? Work in progress by Ma Jianfu, Summer, 2003. Foreign Languages Department, Guyuan Teachers College, Ningxia, P.R. China



You can access here, on your browser, Cao Yong's Draft action research report on How can I Improve the Pronunciation and Intonation of the first-year English Majors? from , Guyuan Teachers College, Ningxia, P.R. China. November 20th, 2003.




Here is Wang Shuqin's Action Research reportHow can I Help the Students to Improve their Speaking Ability Through the Speaking and Listening Part in the Class of Integrated Skills of English? By Wang Shuqin, Guyuan Teachers College. June, 2004. (Foreign Languages and Literature Department, Guyuan Teachers College - (75600), Ningxia, P.R of China)






( Note - Moira Laidlaw's abstract and contents of her doctoral thesis on HOW CAN I CREATE MY OWN LIVING EDUCATIONAL THEORY AS I OFFER YOU AN ACCOUNT OF MY EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT? can be accessed by clicking here)




Moira Laidlaw can be contacted at [email protected]