Action Research Proposal on Collaborative Learning in Humanities Education

Action research proposal

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Ethical Considerations.....................................................................................................................3
Design .............................................................................................................................................3
Method ............................................................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Collaborative learning can be defined as the term that is used to reflect the variety of
educational approaches involving joint intellectual effort by students and teachers together to
have more effective learning. Further, the key benefits of collaborative learning tend to
comprises of the development of higher-level thinking, oral communication, self-management,
and leadership skills. Beside this, the collaborative learning also consists of the promotion of
better student-faculty interaction along with focusing on the strategy that increase the level self-
esteem and confidence level of students to have higher sense of responsibility. Thus,
collaborative learning is important within teaching to supports better learning process and
development of key skills in students. Therefore, the area of investigation that has been selected
for current study is based on “is collaborative learning is good or needs to be changed to support
increase in engagement?”. It has been seen that while teaching humanities it is essential to have
vital and effective engagement within the classroom thus, to ensure improved in pedagogical
practice within my Humanities specialisation selection of ways to increase engagement has been
made. Along with this, Collaborative learning gives students the support they need in an
instructional environment and meet their motivation and satisfaction level. Thus, it tends to
improve the communication and other interpersonal skill that is having a positive effect on
ability to learn and also supports higher student engagement.
The key objective of current project is to have and support the improvement within my
pedagogical practice within the Humanities specialisation. Thus, the main focus of current study
is to analysis that is collaborative learning is good or needs to be changed to support increase in
engagement. The specific set of research objective identified for current project are listed as
below:
 To analysis about the fact that is collaborative learning is good or needs to be
changed to support increase in engagement.
 To ensure improvement in the within my pedagogical practice within the Humanities
specialisation.
 To investigate about effective ways that supports creation of higher engagement to
have improvement in the pedagogical practice.
 is collaborative learning good or needs to be changed to support increase in engagement?
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