The Sage handbook of educational action research/ edited by Susan Noffke, Bridget Somekh - New York: Sage, 2010. - xxvi, 534 p. ; 26 cm.

Introduction --
1 Revisiting the Professional, Personal, and Political Dimensions of Action Research / Susan E. Noffke --
Part I Action Research Methodology: Diversity of Rationales and Practices. Introduction to Part I --
2 Building Educational Theory Through Action Research / John Elliott --
3 Teacher Research as Stance / Marilyn Cochran-Smith, Susan L. Lytle --
4 Dialogic Inquiry as Collaborative Action Research / Gordon Wells --
5 Action Research and the Personal Turn / Sandra Hollingsworth, Anthony Cody, Mary Dybdahl Leslie, Turner Minarik, Jennifer Davis-Smallwood, Karen Manheim Teel --
6 Educational Action Research: A Critical Approach / Wilfred Carr Stephen Kemmis --
7 Action Research for/as/mindful of Social Justice / Morwenna Griffiths. Part II Professional: Knowledge Production, Staff Development, and the Status of Educators. Introduction to Part II --
8 A School District-Based Action Research Program in the United States / Cathy Caro-Bruce, Mary Klehr Ken Zeichner Ana Maria Sierra-Piedrahita --
9 Using Action Research to Support Students with Special Educational Needs / Christine O'Hanlon --
10 Renegotiating Knowledge Relationships in Schools / Chris Bigum Leonie Rowan --
11 Lesson Study as Action Research / Catherine Lewis Rebecca Perry, Shelley Friedkin --
12 Practitioner Action Research and Educational Leadership / Gary L. Anderson, Kathryn Herr --
13 Educational Action Research as a Paradigm for Change / Shoshana Keiny, Lily Orland-Barak --
14 Practitioner Action Research: Building and Sustaining Success Through Networked Learning Communities / Christopher Day, Andrew Townsend --
15 Action Research and Educational Change: Teachers as Innovators / Lesley Saunders, Bridget Somekh --
16 A School System Takes on Exhibitions Through Teacher Action Research / Marie Brennan --
17 Action Research, Professional Development and Systemic Reform / Herbert Altrichter, Peter Posch --
18 Sustaining the Next Generation of Teacher-Researchers to Work for Social Justice / Barbara Comber, Barbara Kamler --
19 Co-operative Change Management Through Practitioner Inquiry / Susan Groundwater-Smith. Part III Personal: Self-Awareness, Development and Identity. Introduction to Part III --
20 Ethics and the 'Personal' in Action Research / Jane Zeni --
21 Writing to Learn: A Process for the Curious / Mary Louise Holly --
22 From Passionate Enquiry to Loving Detachment: One Researcher's Methodological Journey / Marion Dadds --
23 The Interconnections between Narrative Inquiry and Action Research / Debbie Pushor, D. Jean Clandinin --
24 Capabilities, Flourishing and the Normative Purposes of Action Research / Melanie Walker --
25 Demonstrating Quality in Educational Research for Social Accountability / Jean McNiff, Jack Whitehead --
26 Action Research and Pedagogy as Science of the Child's Upbringing / Petra Ponte, Jan Ax --
27 Developing Relationships, Developing the Self: Buddhism and Action Research / Richard Winter --
28 Teaching and Cultural Difference: Exploring the Potential for a Psychoanalytically Informed Action Research / Terrance Carson --
29 Complexity Theory and Action Research / Dennis Sumara, Brent Davis --
30 Agency Through Action Research: Constructing Active Identities from Theoretical Models and Metaphors / Bridget Somekh --
31 Existentialism and Action Research / Allan Feldman. Part IV Political: Popular Knowledge, Difference, and Frameworks for Change. Introduction to Part IV --
32 Elbows Out, Arms Linked: Claiming Spaces for Feminisms and Gender Equity in Educational Action Research / Patricia Maguire, Britt-Marie Berge --
33 Students' Participation in School Change: Action Research on the Ground / Pat Thomson, Helen Gunter --
34 Community Action and Agency in the Education of Urban Youth / Peter C. Murrell Jr. --
35 Social-Political Theory in Working with Teachers for Social Justice Schooling / Marie Brennan, Susan E. Noffke --
36 Rethinking Action Research: Commonsense and Relations of Freedom / Andrew Gitlin --
37 Participatory Action Research in Latin American Education: A Road Map to a Different Part of the World / Eduardo Flores-Kastanis, Juny Montoya-Vargas, Daniel H. Suárez --
38 Teacher Development and Political Transformation: Reflections from the South African Experience / Maureen Robinson, Crain Soudien --
39 The Impact of Action Research in the Spanish Schools in the Post-Franco / Era Ŕngel I. Pérez GÓ;mez, Miguel Sola Fernández EncarnaciÓ;n Soto GÓ;mez José Francisco Murillo Mas --
40 Popular Education and Action Research / Mary Brydon-Miller, Ismail Davids, Namrata Jaitli, M. Brinton Lykes, Jean Schensul, and Susan Williams --
41 Partnership Action Research for Social Justice: Politics, Challenges and Possibilities / Lew Zipin, Robert Hattam --
Conclusions.

9781412947084


Action research in education
Education--Research

370.72 / NOF/S