Action Research Principles and Practice

Name: Action Research Principles and Practice
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ISBN: 9780415535267

ISBN-10: 0415535263

ISBN-13: 9780415535267

Edition: 3rd 2013 (Revised)

Authors: Jean McNiff

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Action research is the practical way of looking at your own work to check that it is as you would like it to be. Avoiding the pitfalls of empirical research, action research is the self-analytical approach to ensuring that a better understanding of yourself, results in self-developing of both yourself and your work.Action Research: Principles and Practiceaims to address the key issues surrounding this idea. It raises issues about how action research is theorised and how practitioners position themselves within the debate. It discusses the importance for educators of understanding their own work and shows how their educative influence can lead to the development of good orders in formal and…

Book details

Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 2/21/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



List of figures


List of contributors


Acknowledgements


Introduction



What do we know? The principles of action research



What do we know? The principles of action research



How do we come to know? Linking theory and practice



Who has influenced our thinking? Key theorists in action research



What do we need to know? Exercising educational influence



What do we do with our knowledge? The practices of action research



How do we do action research? Planning and doing a project



Monitoring practice, gathering data, generating evidence, and ethics



Practical issues



How do we share our knowledge? Writing up and making public



Testing the validity of knowledge claims



Writing and presenting action research reports



Judging quality and demonstrating impact: The significance of your action research



How do we use our knowledge? Action research for good order



Action research for personal, social and institutional transformation



Action research for good order



Hopes and prospects



Whither action research?


Notes


References


Index