Course information

Today, there is an emphasis on providing quality education for all the students who enter the classroom. In order to do this, teachers must be skilled at identifying areas of need and seeking viable solutions. This calls for skills in investigation. Teachers must develop the ability to identify areas of need, collect data for investigative purposes, plan and implement solutions, monitor the outcomes and make decisions about future actions. This course is designed to help participants to acquire such skills. It is not a regular course in research methods as it does not focus on all the possible research designs, but focuses primarily on action research. It does however introduce them to techniques on which they can go on to build to hone their research skills.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
This course is designed to:
1. introduce the participants to basic skills in social investigation
2. help participants to apply the skills learned to investigate school problems with a view to finding sustainable solutions