The Action Research Planner: Doing Critical Participatory Action Research

✍ Scribed by Stephen Kemmis, Robin McTaggart, Rhonda Nixon (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Singapur
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 206
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A fully-updated and reworked version of the classic book by Stephen Kemmis and Robin McTaggart, now joined by Rhonda Nixon, The Action Research Planner is a detailed guide to developing and conducting a critical participatory action research project. The authors outline new views on ‘participation’ (based on Jürgen Habermas’s notion of a ‘public sphere’), ‘practice’ (as shaped by practice architectures), and ‘research’ (as research within practice traditions). They provide five extended examples of critical participatory action research studies. The book includes a range of resources for people planning a critical participatory research initiative, providing guidance on how to establish an action research group and identify a shared concern, research ethics, principles of procedure for action researchers, protocols for collaborative work, keeping a journal, gathering evidence, reporting, and choosing academic partners.

Unlike earlier editions, The Action Research Planner focuses specifically on critical participatory action research, which occupies a particular (critical) niche in the action research 'family'.

The Action Research Planner is an essential guide to planning and undertaking this type of research.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introducing Critical Participatory Action Research....Pages 1-31
A New View of Participation: Participation in Public Spheres....Pages 33-49
A New View of Practice: Practices Held in Place by Practice Architectures....Pages 51-66
A New View of Research: Research Within Practice Traditions....Pages 67-83
Doing Critical Participatory Action Research: The ‘Planner’ Part....Pages 85-114
Examples of Critical Participatory Action Research....Pages 115-148
Resources for Critical Participatory Action Researchers....Pages 149-193
Back Matter....Pages 195-200

✦ Subjects

Teaching and Teacher Education; Learning & Instruction; Assessment, Testing and Evaluation