The teachers who worked with John Henry collaborated in their
own learning process (in some projects, several teachers in an individual
school were involved, in others, teachers from different schools worked
together). They used the self-reflective spiral of action research to make
initial observations and analyze their current teaching practices, then
planned ways they wanted to change and observed the problems and
effects of the changes they introduced, then reflected on their
observations to decide how next to act in the process of improving
their practice. By the end of a number of cycles of action research,
they began to achieve marked differences in their classroom practices
which they regarded as clear improvements in the education available
in their classrooms, and they were able to report on the improvements
they had made.
resources to support students’ independent enquiries) and socially
(students came to have more control over their own classroom
behaviour, and teachers and students began to negotiate the learning
activities of the classroom).