One of the hardest parts of doing Action Research or indeed any kind of research undertaking is to come up with a good research question that is focused, unambiguous and has a clarity to it about its intentions. Inevitably in beginning to think about the guiding question for the research, we often start off with bold and highly ambitious ideas. We need to consider what would trying to answer these big questions require us to do to truly give an answer(s) and this thinking through helps often for us to see how broad and expansive our question really is. We also start to think about ways to make our project truly achievable and more often than not this means scaling our ideas and ambitions down into much more focused spaces of possibility - and from these to come up with an authentic but workable question.
So less can be
more in leading to achievable progress ...
Also, sometimes we will see that the issue or problem we are trying to address could actually be segmented or broken into stages. action research as a spiral model of iterations of action, works well to support a staged and progressive approach to addressing an area or problem. But we must always remain agile and flexible to knowing that the findings from our analysis of actions may mean we need to reshape and refine latter cycles in a staged project.
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