Creativity in language teacher action research

Darío Luis Banegas*, Luis S.Villacañas de Castro

*Corresponding author for this work

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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).
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThe Routledge Handbook of Language Teacher Action Research
EditorsAnne Burns, Kenan Dikilitaş
PublisherRoutledge
Chapter4
Pages30-42
Number of pages13
Edition1st
ISBN (Electronic)9781040269947, 9781003367352
ISBN (Print)9781032434421
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 30 Dec 2024

Publication series

NameRoutledge Handbooks in Applied Linguistics

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