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The creator of psychodrama was born in Bucharest in 1889 into a Sephardic Jewish family. A few years after settling in Vienna in 1915, Levy Moreno began an initiative based on theatrical improvisation, which would give way to a psychotherapeutic proposal that he called psychodrama. -
Philosopher born in Burlington, Vermont. He studied its educational systems in Mexico; China, Türkiye, Japan and the Soviet Union. He contrasted his educational principles in the famous laboratory school of an experimental nature, called the Dewey School. The "experimental method" of his pedagogy is based on the education of individual skill, initiative and entrepreneurship to the detriment of the acquisition of knowledge scientists. -
Kurt Lewin was also the creator of Field Theory, which has served as the basis for developing research on group dynamics, highly applicable in the organizational and business environment. During this time, Kurt Lewin works especially on social phenomena that have to do with social interaction, and investigates everything from the effects of social pressure on children's eating habits to the most effective work dynamics in organizations. -
John Maler Collier was a British writer and painter, a member of the Pre-Raphaelites, and one of the most highly regarded portrait painters of his generation. However, the artist was by no means "damned" and enjoyed the appreciation and respect of Victorian Britain. He lived very well among the beautiful people of the time (unlike other contemporaries such as Rossetti), although when he died well into the 20th century, his art was already outdated by so much avant-garde. -
Stephen Richards Covey (Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, October 24, 1932 - Idaho Falls, Idaho, United States, July 16, 2012) was a business administration graduate, writer, phrasemaker, lecturer, religious and American professor known for being the author of the best-selling book: The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. -
Paulo Freire (1921-1997) was one of the greatest and most significant educators of the 20th century. With the beginning of his dialogue, he taught a new path for the relationship between teachers and students. His ideas influenced and continue to influence democratic processes throughout the world. He was the pedagogue of the oppressed and in his work he transmitted the pedagogy of hope. -
Lawrence Stenhouse (29 March 1926 - 1982) was a British educator who sought to promote an active role for teachers in educational research and curriculum development. He was a founding member of the Center for Applied Research in Education at the University of East Anglia. He trained at Manchester Grammar School, the University of St. Andrews and the University of Glasgow. -
Paul Herbert Oquist Kelley (1942/1943 – April 13, 2021) was an American-born Nicaraguan politician, Secretary of the Presidency, and considered the top adviser to President Daniel Ortega. He was born in Oak Park, Illinois, USA, and began working with Daniel Ortega in the first presidential term in the 1980s. -
John Huxtable Elliott (Reading, June 23, 1930-Oxford, March 10, 2022)1 was a British historian and Hispanist. A great specialist in modern Spanish history from a comparative perspective —and in particular, in the seventeenth century—, he held the positions of Regius Professor Emeritus at the University of Oxford and Honorary Fellow of Oriel College and Trinity College. -
Stephen Kemmis together with Wilfred Carr and the team from Deakin University, Australia, since the early 1980s, they have sought a reconceptualization of action research. They consider that this cannot be understood as a process of transformation of practices teachers, but as a process of social change that is undertaken collectively. -
Professor William O'Brien is a graduate of University College Cork where he completed doctoral research in 1987 on the subject of prehistoric copper mining. Prior to his appointment to the Cork chair in 2006. 'Copper mining in Ireland during the later Bronze Age' In: Mining in European History and its Impact on Environment and Human Societies. Innsbruck, Austria: University of Innsbruck. -
According to Bogdan and Biklen (1982:27) Qualitative research are descriptive data, the data collected is in the form of words or pictures rather than numbers. The researcher get the data source as the research data in the form of conversational fragments. -
Born of the author's own experience working with teachers and principals, Action Research, Fourth Edition, provides a research-based step-by-step outline of how to do action research. The author guides teachers and administrators through the action research process via numerous concrete illustrations; positioning it as a fundamental component of teaching.Action Research helps to develop teachers and administrators with professional attitudes. -
The Essential Guide to Doing Research is a comprehensive, practical, and engaging guide to understanding and undertaking research in the social sciences. By taking a clear and accessible approach, Zina O'Leary encourages students to think about and participate in all aspects of the research process, it is designed to foster lateral, strategic and creative thinking, while providing essential knowledge and skills to students and researchers. -
Richard Sagor recently retired from his position as professor and director of the Educational Leadership Program at Lewis & Clark College. In 1997 he founded ISIE (pronounced “I see”), the Institute for the Study of Inquiry in Education, to work with schools and educational organizations on the use of action research and data-based school improvement while he was a professor of educational leadership at Washington State University (WSU). -
Hilary’s work with action research originally took off in collaboration with Peter Reason. She has since edited three volumes of the Handbook of Action Research and serves the peer reviewed journal Action Research as Editor-in-Chief. Today in support of practitioners and educators, Hilary convenes AR+, a virtual community for participatory action researchers to nurture global interactivity and working partnerships between scholars and practitioners. -
Nashruddin currently works as a lecturer and expert researcher in the English Education Department, at STKIP Muhammadiyah Barru, Indonesia. His research interests are Education, ELT, Literature, and Linguistics.