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Title
Electronic Professional Development, Action Research and Blogging, an Ideal Partnership: Introducing a Culturally Empathetic Electronic Professional Development Course for English Language Teachers Employing a Specifically Designed Action Research Model Encompassing Blogging.
Presenter
Paul Kebble
Abstract
ICT provides tools for electronic interaction that enables global dissemination of information and inter-personal connectivity. An internet based electronic professional development course for English language teachers would allow any teacher with access to a computer and the internet, to participate. Electronic professional development that utilises the Action Research paradigm allows the design of a pedagogically culturally sensitive course. Although Action Research (AR) has been effectively utilised within teacher professional development for over forty years (Zeichner, 2001, Parsons & Brown, 2002), it has not been widely implemented in English language teacher development (Richards & Farrell, 2005) or within electronic professional development (e-PD) courses.
This paper introduces an electronic professional development course for English language teachers, discusses how AR can be implemented within an e-PD course, provides an appropriate AR model for the course using a blog within a personal learning electronic environment, and provides an example and analysis of one course participant’s AR blog.
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