Presents a collection of stories from action research projects in schools and a university. The shows how projects that differ on a variety of dimensions can raise similar themes, problems and issues. The book begins with theme chapters discussing action research, social justice and partnerships in research. The case study chapters cover topics such as: school environment - how to make a school a healthier place to be; parents - how to involve them more in decision-making; students as action researchers; a state system - a collaborative effort between university staff and a state education...
Presents a collection of stories from action research projects in schools and a university. The shows how projects that differ on a variety of dimensi...
This book presents a collection of stories from action research projects in schools and a university. This collection is more than simply an illustration of the scope of action research in education - it shows how projects that differ on a variety of dimensions can raise similar themes, problems and issues. The book begins with theme chapters discussing action research, social justice and partnerships in research. The case study chapters cover topics such as: * school environment - how to make a school a healthier place to be * parents - how to involve them more in...
This book presents a collection of stories from action research projects in schools and a university. This collection is more than simply an illustrat...
Stephen Kemmis Jane Wilkinson Christine Edwards-Groves
This book aims to help teachers and those who support them to re-imagine the work of teaching, learning and leading. In particular, it shows how transformations of educational practice depend on complementary transformations in classroom-school- and system-level organisational cultures, resourcing and politics. It argues that transforming education requires more than professional development to transform teachers; it also calls for fundamental changes in learning and leading practices, which in turn means reshaping organisations that support teachers and teaching organisational cultures, the...
This book aims to help teachers and those who support them to re-imagine the work of teaching, learning and leading. In particular, it shows how trans...
A fully-updated and reworked version of the classic book by Stephen Kemmis and Robin McTaggart, now joined by Rhonda Nixon, The Action Research Planner is a detailed guide to developing and conducting a critical participatory action research project. The authors outline new views on participation (based on Jurgen Habermas s notion of a public sphere ), practice (as shaped by practice architectures), and research (as research within practice traditions). They provide five extended examples of critical participatory action research studies. The book includes a range of resources for...
A fully-updated and reworked version of the classic book by Stephen Kemmis and Robin McTaggart, now joined by Rhonda Nixon, The Action Research ...
It presents and extends the theory of practice architectures, and offers a contemporary account of what practices are composed of and how practices shape and are shaped by the arrangements with which they are enmeshed in sites of practice.
It presents and extends the theory of practice architectures, and offers a contemporary account of what practices are composed of and how practices sh...
Stephen Kemmis Jane Wilkinson Christine Edwards-Groves
Arguing that transforming education requires more than professional development of teachers, this study shows how changing education for the better also requires complementary systemic transformations in cultural, resourcing, and political frameworks.
Arguing that transforming education requires more than professional development of teachers, this study shows how changing education for the better al...
A fully-updated and reworked version of the classic book by Stephen Kemmis and Robin McTaggart, now joined by Rhonda Nixon, The Action Research Planner is a detailed guide to developing and conducting a critical participatory action research project. The authors outline new views on participation (based on Jurgen Habermas s notion of a public sphere ), practice (as shaped by practice architectures), and research (as research within practice traditions). They provide five extended examples of critical participatory action research studies. The book includes a range of resources for...
A fully-updated and reworked version of the classic book by Stephen Kemmis and Robin McTaggart, now joined by Rhonda Nixon, The Action Research ...
