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AMISL
adopted as method to develop
its products and
to address its aims and results the
Action Research approach (AR). The
AR is " a way of self-reflective
enquiry carried on by participants
in social environments in order to
develop rationality and justice of
their social or educational praxis,
as also the comprehension both of
the aforesaid praxis and the contexts
in which these praxis take place."
(Cohen, Manion: 1984)
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AR
is "the systematic study of attempts
to change and improve educational
practice by groups of participants
by means of their own practical actions
and by means of their own reflections
upon the effects of those actions".
(Ebbutt: 1985).
AR is "a methodology that stretches
to conjugate theory and praxis, finalizing
the research to an action and undertaking
this action with the aim to produce
a transformation inside the educational,
psychological and social contexts,
according to structured criteria,
that concur to calibrate this transformation,
being aware of it, checking it, estimating
it and redefining it periodically
in order to render it more and more
effective" (Aluffi Pentini, Anna:
2001).
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The
AR method usually is adopted inside
educative and scholastic environments,
by teachers and didactic coordinators
in order to improve the quality of
the teaching. Our effort is to adapt
the method to the context of the services
for elder people, through the involvement
of the operators who work in that
services.
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