Education Perspective (Express newspaper columns)

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    Action Research and Teacher Education, Part 1
    (Daily Express, 2006-10) Worrell, Patricia
    Part 1 of this article notes that the School of Education at the St. Augustine Campus of The University of the West Indies (UWI) has included an action research component as a core element of its certificate and diploma programmes as one means of addressing the demand for more effective programmes of teacher education. However, it is also noted that the benefits of action research are not being realized in schools because of the negative reactions experienced by student teachers returning to schools and attempting to implement action research interventions. It is suggested that teacher education institutions should seek to design interventions that will include whole schools in the cycle of research
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    Action Research: Fruitful Collaborations, Part 2
    (Daily Express, 2006-11) Worrell, Patricia
    The second part of this article makes the case for collaborative action research as one way to help to ensure that positive changes occur in schools and classrooms. It makes suggestions for the specific arrangements that need to be put in place to ensure fruitful collaboration
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    The Learning Teacher
    (Daily Express, 2005) Yamin-Ali, Jennifer
    This article examines the role of the teacher as learner, as teachers assess problems they or their students encounter in the teaching/learning process, and try to overcome them. It notes the obstacles encountered by the teacher as learner, and identifies the role of mentoring in schools as being crucial to supporting the teacher