RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The term action research was coined by the social psychologist Kurt Lewin in the United States in about 1944 in connection with research which aimed to promote social action through democratic decision making and active participation of practitioners in the research process.

Detailed explanation-2: -In a 1947 article, Lewin coined the term “group dynamics". He described this notion as the way that groups and individuals act and react to changing circumstances.

Detailed explanation-3: -Kurt Lewin, then a professor a MIT, first coined the term “action research” in 1944.

Detailed explanation-4: -Kurt Lewin developed the action research model in the mid-1940s to respond to problems he perceived in social action (Kemmis, in Kemmis and McTaggart, 1988).