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  • How can practice be understood and developed?
  • What part can action research play in that process?
  • What principles lie at the heart of action research and how can they be adopted?
  • How can action research bring about democratic and collaborative changes to practice? These and other questions are answered in this book which offers both a practical step-by-step guide to action research and an examination of the underlying principles and challenges. Action research as an approach aims to generate knowledge and achieve principled change. This book explores the overarching features and a variety of models of action research to provide advice, guidance, and support on its conduct and to identify challenges that may arise, with a focus on understanding and changing practice as a result.

    Throughout the book examples of action research illustrate each of the stages of action research so that you can see how action research has been conducted and applied in pra

    Table of Contents
    Introduction
    The processes of action research
    The principles of action research
    Connecting research and practice
    Identifying a focus for change
    Developing a plan for action and research
    Managing the implementation of change
    Evaluating action research
    Concluding action research
    Reflecting on action research

    • Action Research The Challenges of Understanding

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        Publisher: Open University Press
        Publication Date: 16/12/2012
        ISBN13: 9780335244430, 978-0335244430
        ISBN10: 335244432
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        Description

        Book Synopsis
      • How can practice be understood and developed?
      • What part can action research play in that process?
      • What principles lie at the heart of action research and how can they be adopted?
      • How can action research bring about democratic and collaborative changes to practice? These and other questions are answered in this book which offers both a practical step-by-step guide to action research and an examination of the underlying principles and challenges. Action research as an approach aims to generate knowledge and achieve principled change. This book explores the overarching features and a variety of models of action research to provide advice, guidance, and support on its conduct and to identify challenges that may arise, with a focus on understanding and changing practice as a result.

        Throughout the book examples of action research illustrate each of the stages of action research so that you can see how action research has been conducted and applied in pra

        Table of Contents
        Introduction
        The processes of action research
        The principles of action research
        Connecting research and practice
        Identifying a focus for change
        Developing a plan for action and research
        Managing the implementation of change
        Evaluating action research
        Concluding action research
        Reflecting on action research

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