EDLD 5301, Week 2: Redundant Research

Hopefully, the title of this post caught your eye.  For those of you enrolled in EDLD 5301, you may relate to the reasons why I chose "redundant research" to hang above this blog entry.  At the beginning of this week (which for me was Wednesday), I felt the workload was relatively easy because I started with the discussion boards.  Initially it seemed I'd be talking about what I'd discussed the previous week:  my action research topic.  Redundant, right?  I thought to myself, "Hey, self, this week will be a breeze!" Enter Friday and Saturday, when I was tasked with investigating nine different wonderings educational leaders should engage in.  This essay, coupled with the essay on what I'd learned from interviews of educational leaders led me to the second redundancy of the week.  While driving home after five hours of reading and writing, I thought to myself, "Man, self, I just spent five hours researching...research!"  As I sit here on a Sunday night with my assignment submitted, my discussion board duties fulfilled, and my blog post completing itself right before my eyes, I can genuinely say I've learned a ton this week about action research.  Not only have I been able to think more precisely about my research topic, I've learned how action research can lead to positive results in other areas.  I've learned the value of taking the initiative in addressing issues and problems through research.  I've learned sharing your findings from research with others can be very rewarding, and I've learned data is the key to assessing your research's progress and accuracy.  I look forward to what may be another week of redundancy as this one, to me, was very rewarding.  I'll say it again.  This week was very rewarding.