Action Research: Principles and Practice

ISBN-13: 9780415535250 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 226 str.

Jean McNiff

Opis

This edition provides updates on methodological discussions and includes new sections on case study material and information on supporting action research.

Spis treści

Part I. What do we know? The principles of action research  Chapter 1. What do we know? The principles of action research  Chapter 2. How do we come to know it? Linking theory and practice  Chapter 3. Who has influenced our thinking? Key theorists, old and new  Chapter 4. What do we need to know? How can we develop the work?  Part II. What do we do? The practices of action research  Chapter 5. How to do action research  Chapter 6. Practical issues  Chapter 7. Making sense of the data and generating evidence  Chapter 8. Validating and legitimating claims to knowledge  Part III. How do we share our knowledge? Stories from the field  Chapter 9. Action research across the disciplines and professions  Chapter 10. Action research for social change  Chapter 11. Action research and communities and cultures of enquiry  Chapter 12. Action research for global sustainability  Part IV. What is the significance of our knowledge? How do we communicate it?  Chapter 13. Producing and presenting action research reports  Chapter 14. Demonstrating impact: Explaining the significance of our action research  Part V. Whither action research?  Chapter 15. New directions in action research  Chapter 16. So …what do we know now? What do we need to know?

O autorze

Jean McNiff is Professor of Educational Research at York St John University, UK. She also holds visiting professorial positions at Beijing Normal University and Ningxia Teachers University, People’s Republic of China; the University of Tromsø, Norway; and the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa. She has written widely on action research in education.