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All You Need to Know About Action Research

ISBN: 9780857025838 | 085702583X
Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Pub. Date: 7/6/2011

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
Action research is one of the most popular approaches to research in Education, Health and Business, and in this new edition, expert practitioners Jean McNiff and Jack Whitehead guide the reader through everything they need to know to plan and carry out a successful action research project.
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Introductionp. 1
What Do I Need To Know?p. 5
What Is Action Research?p. 7
Who Can Do Action Research?p. 18
The Underpinning Assumptions of Action Researchp. 26
Where Did Action Research Come from and Where Is it Now?p. 41
Why Do I Need To Know?p. 53
Why Do Action Research?p. 55
Learning to Improve Practicep. 62
Contributing to New Theoryp. 71
Evaluating Your Researchp. 79
How Do I Find Out?p. 87
Action Planning: Planning and Designing Your Action Researchp. 89
Engaging with the Literaturesp. 111
Doing Action Research: Carrying Out Your Action Planp. 120
How Do I Generate Evidence To Support My Claim To Knowledge?p. 131
Monitoring Practice and Looking for Datap. 133
Gathering, Sorting and Storing Datap. 140
Turning the Data into Evidencep. 150
How Do I Test And Critique My Knowledge?p. 159
Testing the Validity of Your Claims to Knowledgep. 161
Establishing the Legitimacy of Your Claims to Knowledgep. 171
Engaging with the Politics of Knowledgep. 180
How Do I Represent And Disseminate My Knowledge?p. 189
Telling Your Research Storyp. 191
Writing a Workplace Reportp. 198
Writing a Report for Higher Degree Accreditationp. 209
Publishing and Disseminating Your Researchp. 223
How Do I Show The Significance Of My Knowledge?p. 239
Explaining the Significance of Your Researchp. 241
Developing New Epistemologies for Workplace Cultures of Enquiryp. 249
Referencesp. 260
Indexp. 270
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Jean Mcniff is professor of educational research at York ST john university Jack Whitehead is a professor of at Liverpool hope university, UK.


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