TY - CHAP
T1 - Creativity in language teacher action research
AU - Banegas, Darío Luis
AU - de Castro, Luis S.Villacañas
PY - 2024/12/30
Y1 - 2024/12/30
N2 - Language teacher action research (AR) may be understood as a product of necessity, as teachers need to grapple with issues stemming from the complex and uncertain ecology of a language curriculum. Necessity leads them to engage with processes and products that may assist them in the design and enactment of meaningful teaching opportunities. In this landscape, creativity plays a paramount role. For the purposes of this chapter, creativity will be defined as the situated, context-responsive, and people-oriented process of bringing different elements together to form a new and significant idea/product/etc. that will benefit teaching and learning. Against this background, the aim of this literature-review-based chapter is to put forward a language action research creativity triptych to account for the variety of manifestations that creativity can embody in AR. The triptych seeks to reconcile different layers of AR: (1) creativity on AR (methodological creativity), (2) creativity for AR (pedagogical creativity), and (3) creativity through AR (teachers' professional development with a societal orientation).
AB - Language teacher action research (AR) may be understood as a product of necessity, as teachers need to grapple with issues stemming from the complex and uncertain ecology of a language curriculum. Necessity leads them to engage with processes and products that may assist them in the design and enactment of meaningful teaching opportunities. In this landscape, creativity plays a paramount role. For the purposes of this chapter, creativity will be defined as the situated, context-responsive, and people-oriented process of bringing different elements together to form a new and significant idea/product/etc. that will benefit teaching and learning. Against this background, the aim of this literature-review-based chapter is to put forward a language action research creativity triptych to account for the variety of manifestations that creativity can embody in AR. The triptych seeks to reconcile different layers of AR: (1) creativity on AR (methodological creativity), (2) creativity for AR (pedagogical creativity), and (3) creativity through AR (teachers' professional development with a societal orientation).
UR - https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Language-Teacher-Action-Research/Burns-Dikilita/p/book/9781032434421
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85213182349&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.4324/9781003367352-5
DO - 10.4324/9781003367352-5
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85213182349
SN - 9781032434421
T3 - Routledge Handbooks in Applied Linguistics
SP - 30
EP - 42
BT - The Routledge Handbook of Language Teacher Action Research
A2 - Burns, Anne
A2 - Dikilitaş, Kenan
PB - Routledge
ER -