Action Research - Key to Evidence Based Teaching & Learning

The concept of action research can be traced back to the works of John Dewey in the 1920s and Kurt Lewin in the 1940s. The idea of using research in a "natural" setting to change the way that the researcher interacts with that setting was traced back to Kurt Lewin. Kurt Lewin was credited for coining the term "action research" to describe work that did not separate the investigation from the action needed to solve the problem. Kurt Lewin is generally considered the "father‟ of action research. A German social and experimental psychologist, and one of the founders of the Gestalt school, he was concerned with social problems, and focused on participative group processes for addressing conflict, crises, and change, generally within organizations. Stephen Corey was the first to use action research in the field of education.