Action research

The teaching profession is traditionally highly suspicious of research. The dogma has it that not only do the researchers have no real grasp of what it is like to face 30 recalcitrant 15‐year‐olds at three on a hot Friday afternoon, or the smell of wet wellies in the primary school cloakroom on a damp Monday morning, but that when they do descend from Olympus into the classroom they are a damned nuisance and have nothing very useful to offer.