Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-269) and index.
PART ONE: WHAT DO I NEED TO KNOW -- What Is Action Research? -- Who Does Action Research? -- The Underpinning Assumptions of Action Research -- Where Did Action Research Come from? -- PART TWO: WHY DO I NEED TO KNOW? -- Why Do Action Research? -- Learning To Improve Practice -- Contributing to New Theory -- Evaluating Your Research -- PART THREE: HOW DO I FIND OUT? -- Feasibility Planning -- What Do You Need To Think About First? -- Action Planning -- How Do You Develop an Action Plan? -- Doing Your Action Research -- Carrying Out Your Action Plan -- Examples of Action Research Projects -- PART FOUR: HOW DO I GENERATE EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT MY CLAIM TO KNOWLEDGE? -- Monitoring Practice and Looking for Data -- Gathering, Sorting and Storing Data -- Turning the Data into Evidence -- PART FIVE: HOW DO I TEST AND CRITIQUE MY KNOWLEDGE? -- Testing the Validity of Your Claims to Knowledge -- Establishing the Legitimacy of Your Claim to Knowledge -- Engaging with the Politics of Knowledge -- PART SIX: HOW DO I REPRESENT AND DISSEMINATE MY KNOWLEDGE? -- Telling Your Research Story -- Writing a Workplace Report -- Writing a Report for Higher Degree Accreditation -- Publishing and Disseminating Your Research -- PART SEVEN: HOW DO I SHOW THE SIGNIFICANCE OF MY KNOWLEDGE? -- Explaining the Significance of Your Research -- Developing New Epistemologies for Organizational Cultures of Enquiry -- The Amazing Potential Global Influence of Your Action Research.
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The authors provide an easy-to-follow introduction to action research that acts as a guide to its history and philosophy, covers the main theoretical debates in action research, and helps anyone undertaking their own action research project.
Action research.
70.03 methods, techniques and organization of social science research.