TY - BOOK AU - Noffke, Susan, ed. AU - Somekh, Bridget, ed. TI - The Sage handbook of educational action research SN - 9781412947084 U1 - 370.72 PY - 2010/// CY - New York PB - Sage KW - Action research in education KW - Education--Research N1 - 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 Àngel 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 ER -