Teacher Researchers in Agricultural Education: Developing Teacher Leaders through Action Research
Cary J. Trexler
The Agricultural education magazine
Urban Farm DB summary
An essay on action research in agricultural education discusses its concept and value, citing organizing a community garden and determining best practices for it as one example of an action-research project, alongside after-school recreation programs and rural-community documentation efforts. It characterizes the researcher's vested personal interest in the outcome as the defining feature of action research, and frames "teacher research" — an educator's systematic reflection on their own classroom, shop, SAEs, or FFA activities — as one form of it, drawing on Schön (1983) and Mundy and Russell (1994) on knowledge embedded in practice. The piece presents no empirical data.