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| What shall I explore – and what are my questions?
4.2 Your own motivations – and
narrowing down your focus
The motivations we suggested
above can lead you to
understand your classroom, your students and your
teaching better and/or change them, via teacher-research.
To do research, though,
you first need to choose a
particular topic, in other words narrow down to a major
focus from all the possible focuses you could have. The
following activities will help you do this:
Task 4.3
Bearing in mind your answers to Task 4.1,
try to write
sentences for each of the following situations:
a) Things that worked and you would like to explore further:
I am happy about
b) Doubts or questions you have about your students and
their learning:
I am unsure about
c) Things that didn’t work – you would like to know why:
I am unhappy about
You may have found that there
are several topics that you
would like to explore and feel are worth pursuing further.
However, some topic areas are likely to be easier to
approach and/or are more relevant than others for you and
your learners.
To narrow down your list, we suggest
considering what we call ‘MUSE’:
the extent to which each
possible topic for research is
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