ABSTRACT
At the end of the chapter you can go back to your responses to see how your ideas are developing.
In this chapter we will explore the first steps in starting up an AR project. You may already have some questions, ideas, puzzles, conundrums, or ‘what ifs . . .?’ about teaching and learning that you have been wondering about for some time. Alternatively, you may not be too clear at this stage what it is you want to focus on, even though you feel keen on the idea of looking into the practices and behaviours in your classroom in more detail. The starting point for AR is identifying a problem you want to focus on. ‘Problem’ is the research term for the issue under investigation (but as I said in Chapter 1 it doesn’t mean your teaching is ‘the problem’). Exploring your AR problem doesn’t necessarily mean that you will find the ultimate solution; but it does mean that you’ve recognised areas you want to examine in more depth and you want to find possible answers for them.
