STUDENTS PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT THROUGH INDIVIDUAL ACTION RESEARCH

Abstract

The paper presents a student project. Ten students of the Pedagogy Faculty carried out individual action research in different areas of social and personality development in the years 2019-2020. The aim of the paper is to present the project, its methodology, and the research problems that the students worked with. Four-phase model of action research by Kemmis, McTaggart (1988) was chosen. Six key topics were identified, all focused on development: communication skills improvement, self-value and self-trust improvement, facing demanding situations and work with escape strategies, skills of appropriate response in conflict situations, diminishing fear of entering new situations and work with negative evaluation of other people. An example of a chosen research presents the work of a student in action research phases focusing on work with stress.