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Using Action Research for Educational Reform in the Nation of Mongolia: A Catalyst for Democratic Transformation

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This chapter examines the use of action research to impact educational reform within the only teacher training university in Mongolia. Teacher educators sought a research approach that would encourage them and their students to be active change agents in democratic educational reform efforts within the climate of Mongolian national political transformation. The chapter identifies major trends characterizing the current movement including (a) development of conceptual frameworks for education reform; (b) experiments in action research dissemination; and (c) use of action research as a transformative paradigm for reforming teacher education. It is argued that educational reform practice and scholarship are being enhanced through a participatory approach to teacher education and practitioner research focused on classroom and school issues in the context of Mongolian culture and history.

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  1. New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, USA

    Candace Kaye

  2. Mongolian National University of Education, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

    Jadambaa Badrakh, Narantsetseg Dorjgotov, Batdelger Jamsrandorj, Baigalmaa Chultum & Altangoo Orchirbat

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  1. School of Leadership & Education Sciences, University of San Diego, San Diego, California, USA

    Lonnie L. Rowell

  2. School of Education, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada

    Catherine D. Bruce

  3. Education Department, Moravian College, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA

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  4. Center for Collaborative Action Research, Pepperdine University, Los Angeles, California, USA

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Kaye, C., Badrakh, J., Dorjgotov, N., Jamsrandorj, B., Chultum, B., Orchirbat, A. (2017). Using Action Research for Educational Reform in the Nation of Mongolia: A Catalyst for Democratic Transformation. In: Rowell, L., Bruce, C., Shosh, J., Riel, M. (eds) The Palgrave International Handbook of Action Research. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-40523-4_20

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