For educators interested in researching their own professional practice. Included are stories of practitioner researchers working in most areas of education.
The article outlines several variants of teacher/action research, describing some of the different "tools" and "intentions" of a number of prominent qualitative researchers.
The article proposes some ways of distinguishing action research and learning processes in research practices, particularly with regard to experiences of reconciliation at an inter-racial level.
The paper offers an analysis of how narratives may be reflexively used at different stages of the research process as a tool to access the interpretative frameworks that actors use to construct their accounts of events and to make sense of their action.
In the literature, discussion of action research tends to fall into two distinctive camps. ... Action research is simply a form of self-reflective enquiry ...
Action research is about changing an environment, system, or practice, and ... As John Elliott says, action research is "the study of a social situation with a ...