Educational Action Research Austrian Model to India

Contents: I. Austrian Perspectives: 1. Teacher Professional Development Based on Action Research.2. The IMST Project: Reflections on a Nation-Wide: Initiative Fostering Educational Innovations. 3. Successful Outcomes of Teacher Projects:Angela Schuster, Franz Rauch, and Stefan Zehetmeier. 4. Students' Learning Motivation and Teachers' Motivation to Teach: Some Results from the Research on the IMST Program. 5. Different Layers of Reflection: Work Discussion as a Trigger for "Reflection in and on Emotion" in Educational Action Research. 6. On the Significance of Communication and Organization in a Culture of Innovation.
II. Indian Perspectives: 7. Action Oriented Research in Context of School Psychology. 8. Methodology of Conducting Action Research. 9. Prospects of Action Research in India: With Special Reference to Mathematics Education. 10. Action Research: Enhancing Students' Achievement in the Application of Simultaneous Linear Equations. 11. Action Research: Understanding the Galaxy through Web Resources: 12. Action Research Agenda at the National Level. 13. Attitude toward School Infrastructure as a Predictor of School Attendance Motivation: Problem of Primary Education in Rural India. 14. Online Facilitation for Enhancing Environmental Consciousness and Environmental Attitude of Prospective Teacher Educators: An Indian Experiment. III. Indo-Austrian Perspectives: 15. Austrian and Indian School Culture. 16. Action Research in India and Austria - Current Problems and Possible Future Directions.

This book collects experiences and empirical results from Austrian and Indian school developmental work and gives suggestions as well as recommendations for the fielding of Austrian action research in India, but also vice versa. In this book, similarities and contrasts between the two cultures and school cultures will be worked out in order to get a basement for the next step of the program, the field implementation. (jacket)