Bridget Somek explores how action research can enable teachers and school leaders to positively impact children's education. Somekh defines agency as "the capability of a self to take action that will have an impact on a social situation." The reflexivity at the heart of action research allows agency to empower an authentic self through practical actions. Examining human behavior at a group level through "dilemma analysis" can help identify conflicts between values and practices to find better alignments. A multi-self understanding recognizes that individuals develop a complete self through engagement with both their personal views and the perspectives of others in their community.

1. Agency through Action research: Constructing Active Identities from Theoretical Models
and Metaphors
Bridget Somek
6th Journal Fundamentos de Inglés III
Gonzalo LoperaRestrepo
“Can action research enable teachers and school leaders to make a difference for the better
children´s education?” Somekh (1970, p. 370)
Form not a poem
Power and Agency, Agency and Structure
Agency as “the capability of a self
To take action that will have an impact
On a social situation” (Somekh, 2006: 15)
The reflexivity which lies at the heart
Of the action research
The agency deposes its power
In benefit of an authentic self
Which actions are seen in practical actions. (Elliot, 2007)
Human behavior on a group level
“dilemma analysis” identifies the conflicts
Between their values and practices, looking for better alignments

2. Multi self Contextually and social situated
Understanding at the end
that only through “engagement”
Of the “I” and the “me”
With the “generalized other” does the individual
“develop a complete self”
Mind and activity
culturaltools and social experience
Language constructs paths to go around
Meaning and memory, believing and knowing
Discourses and practice, perceptions and imaginings
The self and identity
Impacted agency, impacted beings
Reflecting schools
More reflection and less on acting and doing.
Fundación Universitaria Luis Amigó
Fundamentos de Inglés II
TeacherLiliana Maria Maturana
Noviembre 15 de 2013