Journal of English Language Teaching

Action Research: An Effective Strategy for Continuing Professional Development

Hitesh C Bhakat

Lecturer, Regional Institute of English, Bangalore

Keywords: professional development, action research, reflective practices, intuitional enquiry

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Abstract

This paper highlights action research as an effective strategy of continuing professional development to meet the challenges on recent demands for specialized expertise in practicing teachers. Diurnal occupational academic activities take a major portion of time of individuals creating unfavourable situation withholding them to pursue other means of growth as academicians. The paper focuses on feasibility of action research as an effective means as it enables teachers to collect data from observation and reflection on own practices without demanding extra time or being away from workplace. The paper concentrates on professional development, action research for growth, processes of research and it benefits.

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