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Action Research: The Challenges of Understanding and Changing Practice (Paperback, Ed)
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Action Research: The Challenges of Understanding and Changing Practice (Paperback, Ed)
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How can practice be understood and developed? What part can action
research play in that process? What principles lie at the heart of
action research and how can they be adopted? How can action
research bring about democratic and collaborative changes to
practice? These and other questions are answered in this book which
offers both a practical step-by-step guide to action research and
an examination of the underlying principles and challenges. Action
research as an approach aims to generate knowledge and achieve
principled change. This book explores the overarching features and
a variety of models of action research to provide advice, guidance,
and support on its conduct and to identify challenges that may
arise, with a focus on understanding and changing practice as a
result. Throughout the book examples of action research illustrate
each of the stages of action research so that you can see how
action research has been conducted and applied in practice, and how
this relates to the principles and practices of action research
discussed in the book. Conducting action research can present a
number of challenges. This book includes reflection points on the
challenges posed, as well as advice on how these challenges may be
addressed in order to achieve embedded and sustainable change."The
book to recommend to your students to help them understand how
action research has developed as a form of inquiry and support them
to plan their own studies. By clearly setting out the principles
that underpin the process, and by linking to examples of how others
have carried out research across a range of professions, it goes
beyond being a basic introductory text and provides them with
multiple routes into this complex and challenging area. Whether you
are a novice or experienced researcher this book will provide you
with new ways of thinking and challenge your conceptions about the
theory and practice of action research. Drawing on a wide range of
theoretical and practical resources it will help you position
yourself amongst the various influences that have shaped the area.
The clearly laid out chapters provide you with a step by step
process to designing an action research project. At each stage it
provides links to key constructs and examples that will help you
clarify your thinking and support as you implement your study."
Professor Mark Hadfield, Director, Centre for Developmental and
Applied Research in Education, University of Wolverhampton, UK"This
book fully embraces the 'glorious and challenging diversity of
action research' and is essential reading for anyone interested in
undertaking any form of educational research. Written by a
passionate exponent of action research, this book provides an
excellent introduction into the topic and develops a number of key
issues about the nature and context of action research. The author
provides a detailed discussion of the current debate and goes on to
deal with the practical challenges involved in the development of
action research projects. Well written, in a challenging and
accessible style, Action Research makes a major contribution to the
improvement of teaching and learning that lies at the heart of
action research." Ian Abbott, Director, Institute of Education,
University of Warwick, UK"This refreshing new book will prove
invaluable to teachers embarking on Masters-level Action Research
studies. By drawing widely on scholarship to illuminate the
practical challenges and problematic issues arising for
practitioner-researchers, this book operates as a guide, a resource
and also as a stimulating companion through the research process;
it encourages readers to design and to refine action research
approaches that meet the needs of their learners and the wider
community. It will help teachers to redefine their practices and to
confidently establish themselves as principled andprofessional
teacher-researchers." Dr Andy Convery, University of Sunderland,
UK"This book is a rich and useful text both for those wanting to
explore the practice of action research and the key ideas
underpinning it as an approach. Andrew Townsend brings much
experience as a researcher, thinker and developer of action
research in educational settings to this book." Professor Colleen
McLaughlin, University of Cambridge (moving to Sussex)"I have
recommended this book for practitioners on the action research
programme we carry out. It is much more than a how to guide; it
raises the fundamental questions about the nature of action
research. One of its key strengths is that it discusses the
tensions within action research in a critical manner and invites
readers to reach their own conclusions. It succeeds admirably in
its aim of appealing to a broad readership, including those new to
action research or those wanting to know more about it." Mick
Hammond, University of Warwick, UK
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