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Action Research: Increasing the Validity and Utility of Theory and Practice
The Northeast Florida Science, Technology, and Mathematics Center for Education, Action research for teachers: http://www.nefstem.org/teacher_guide/prep/index.htm Madison Metropolitan School District, Starting Points: ...
Martyn Rawson is a teacher in a Steiner Waldorfschool in Germany. He is also a teacher educator and researcher, and frequently acts as an interpreter in the course of his work. The text in the case study is a modified extract from an ...
... and why ∗From an article I co-authored with colleagues Susan Sullivan and Vivian Shulman (2002), Good intentions, questionable results: Implications for the professional development of teachers, Education and Urban Society, ...
Action Research: Where the Action is
Defining the philosophy behind action research, this work sets in place the foundations of action research as a discipline, and roots action research as an ethical and politically-engaged form of enquiry.
This Fifth Edition adds enhanced coverage of rigor and ethics in action research, means of establishing quality of both quantitative and qualitative data, as well as strengthened pedagogical features.
The text will also reinforce how action research can improve the teaching and learning process by reinforcing or changing perceptions about the use of informal data, including anecdotal notes or observations, in the research process.
This book presents a fresh view of action research as a methodology uniquely suited to researching the processes of innovation and change.
Action Research is an invaluable guide to novice researchers from a diversity of disciplines, backgrounds, and levels of study for understanding how action research works in real-life contexts.
(inclusive working definition drawn up collaboratively at the International Symposium on Action Research, Brisbane, March 1989, and reproducedin ZuberSkerritt, 1992b: 14; emphasis in original) So far, these are linguisticdescriptions ...
This book gives you all you need to know about action research, why you need to know it and how it can help you become a self-reflective practitioner-researcher.
The central purpose of this book is to enable practitioners to undertake and to offer an account of an action research project. The volume is divided into seven sections, the first six of which are headed by commonly asked questions.
Teacher as reflective practitioner and action researcher. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning. Piggot-Irvine, E. (2006). Sustaining excellence in experienced principals? Critique of a professional learning community approach.
Born of the author's own experience working with teachers and principals, Action Research, Fourth Edition, provides a research-based step-by-step outline of how to do action research. The author guides teachers...
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We explore these ideas further in Section 2, as we set out new directions for our research. ... Here are some of the accounts, all of which can be downloaded by accessing their accompanying URLs. ... PhD thesis, University of Bath.
This book includes theoretical and historical overviews of action research, reflections on the writing process, narratives about the design and difficult internal processes of ACRES, and a selection of the participants’ writings.
Nottingham, UK: University of Nottingham Urban Programme Research Group. Senge, P. (2006). The fifth discipline. New York: Crown Business. Senge, P., Kleiner, A., Roberts, C., Ross, R., Roth, G., & Smith, B. (1999).