T480 and T481 – Integrative Seminar: Directed Action Research in Diverse Early Education Settings I and II
Educational programs serving diverse young children demand practitioners who are capable of reflecting about the application of theory to practice, and engage in the critical examination of a variety of issues pertaining to working with these students and their families. Participants in this two semester course generate questions about their practice that lead to an action research intrinsically connected to issues of quality in teaching and learning within diverse early childhood and primary settings. The course supports students as they generate questions about their practice, gather data in response to the question, and utilize this data to support in-depth individual and collective reflection about their professional work.