However, the difficulty of maintaining the classroom program and managing the research project simultaneously still exists. Teachers have attempted to find creative solutions to this problem. It is also evident that all participants interviewed to date believe that their involvement in the Educators as Researchers project has had a positive impact on their teaching practice and their professional development. Through further investigation it is hoped to acquire a clearer picture of the research participants perceptions of the advantages and disadvantages of engaging in action research. Summation Action research allows teachers to collectively look at challenges in their own classrooms, develop research questions, and to solve related problems.
Opportunities exist for dialoguing and sharing of educational issues and concerns.
This research process make explicit concerns and interests derived from discourse. These processes and concerns are instructional for educational researchers. Professional growth of teachers in their confidence in conducting research and in their teaching practice further speaks of the value of action research. To inspire continuous research by teachers, action research must be initiated by and maintained by teachers, rather than by outsiders. However, outsiders like university instructors and researchers can play a role in teachers' action research.