Informed by the author's years of field research, teaching, and consulting, this readable, accessible book will assist novice researchers to understand qualitative, action research. Up-to-date coverage based on the work of earlier researchers clearly delineates the place of action research in the current research methodology scene; and speaks directly to the needs of those involved on a daily basis with classrooms and schools. Defines action research and clarifies its nature, providing a clear description of the relationship between qualitative and quantitative research. Offers step-by-step procedures for planning, implementing, and evaluating the kind of research projects that help people use their own understanding and expertise to work systematically through a data gathering process, and, ultimately, find a solution to the problem they are investigating. Includes an entire chapter addressing design, ethics, and validity—examines sampling, informed consent, permissions, credibility, the index of engagement (excitement, interest, apathy, resistance), and other factors. Featuers an entire chapter on Data Gathering—details the techniques of information gathering from a variety of sources—interviews, surveys, records, artifacts, and others. Includes a discussion of the relationship between action research and common educational practices. For novice researchers and educators.

Action Research in Education

Politics & Social Sciences

Stringer, Ernest T.

Social Sciences

PRENTICE/HALL

Community-based action research - a type of research undertaken by workers in a wide variety of community, organizational and institutional settings - is the subject of this book. The author provides a series of tools to help the researcher, whether novice or experienced in other types of research, comfortably through this research process. After defining and placing community-based action research in the context of qualitative research methodology, Ernest T Stringer describes a simple and effective model for approaching action research: Look - building a picture and gathering information; Think - interpreting and explaining; Act - resolving issues and problems. In conclusion he considers issues of legitimacy surroundi

Action Research: A Handbook for Practitioners

Sage Publications, Inc.

Community-based action research - a type of research undertaken by workers in a wide variety of community, organizational and institutional settings - is the subject of this book. The author provides a series of tools to help the researcher, whether novice or experienced in other types of research, comfortably through this research process. After defining and placing community-based action research in the context of qualitative research methodology, Ernest T Stringer describes a simple and effective model for approaching action research: Look - building a picture and gathering information; Think - interpreting and explaining; Act - resolving issues and problems. In conclusion he considers issues of legitimacy surroundi

Action Research: A Handbook for Practitioners (Theories of Institutional Design)

Action Research

Community-based action research seeks to involve as active participants those who have traditionally been called subjects. This book provides a a simple but highly effective model for approaching action research. The author describes a simple and effective model for approaching action research: Look - building a picture and gathering information; Think - interpreting and explaining; Act - resolving issues and problems.This revised edition contains summaries which provide a practical checklist fo researchers, and an appendix of electronic resources.

Community-Based Ethnography

Co-written by a professor and 10 students, this book explores their attempts to come to grips with fundamental issues related to writing narrative accounts purporting to represent aspects of people's lives. The fundamental project, around which their explorations in writing textual accounts turned, derived from the editor's initial ethnographic question: "Tell me about the [previous] class we did together?" This proved to be a particularly rich exercise, bringing into the arena all of the problems related to choice of data, analysis of data, the structure of the account, the stance of the author, tense, and case, the adequacy of the account, and more. As participants shared versions of their accounts and struggled to analyze the wealth of data they had accumulated in the previous classes -- the products of in-class practice of observation and interview -- they became aware of the ephemeral nature of narrative accounts. Reality, as written in textual form, cannot capture the immense depth, breadth, and complexity of an actual lived experience and can only be an incomplete representation that derives from the interpretive imagination of the author. The final chapter results from a number of discussions during which each contributing author briefly revisited the text and -- through dialogue with others and/or the editor -- identified the elements that would provide an overall framework that represents "the big message" of the book. In this way, the contributors attempted to provide a conceptual context that would indicate ways in which their private experiences could be seen to be relevant to the broader public arenas in which education and research is engaged. In its entirety, the book presents an interpretive study of teaching and learning. It provides a multi-voiced account that reveals how problematic, turning-point experiences in a university class are perceived, organized, constructed, and given meaning by a group of interacting individuals.

Community-Based Ethnography: Breaking Traditional Boundaries of Research, Teaching, and Learning

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Agnello, Mary Frances

Baldwin, Sheila Conant

Christensen, Lois McFayden

Henry, Deana Lee Philb

Psychology & Counseling

Psychology Press

Helping teachers engage K–12 students as participatory researchers to accomplish highly effective learning outcomes Integrating Teaching, Learning, and Action Research: Enhancing Instruction in the K–12 Classroom demonstrates how teachers can use action research as an integral component of teaching and learning. The text uses examples and lesson plans to demonstrate how student research processes can be incorporated into classroom lessons that are linked to standards. 
Key Features
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<li>Guides teachers through systematic steps of planning, instruction, assessment, and evaluation, taking into account the diverse abilities and characteristics of their students, the complex body of knowledge and skills they must acquire, and the wide array of learning activities that can be engaged in the process</li>
<li>Demonstrates how teacher action research and student action learning―working in tandem―create a dynamic, engaging learning community that enables students to achieve desired learning outcomes</li>
<li>Provides clear directions and examples of how to apply action research to core classroom activities: lesson planning, instructional processes, student learning activities, assessment, and evaluation</li>
</ul>

Integrating Teaching, Learning, and Action Research: Enhancing Instruction in the K-12 Classroom

Education & Teaching

Christensen, Lois McFadyen

Baldwin, Shelia C.

Schools & Teaching

Sage Publications (CA)

We offer these texts bundled together at a discount for your students.  Creswell: Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches 4e  The eagerly anticipated Fourth Edition of the title that pioneered the comparison of qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods research design is here! For all three approaches, Creswell includes a preliminary consideration of philosophical assumptions, a review of the literature, an assessment of the use of theory in research approaches, and refl ections about the importance of writing and ethics in scholarly inquiry. He also presents the key elements of the research process, giving specifi c attention to each approach. The Fourth Edition includes extensively revised mixed methods coverage, increased coverage of ethical issues in research, and an expanded emphasis on worldview perspectives.  Maxwell: Research Design: An Interactive Approach 3e  This book provides researchers and students with a user-friendly, step-by-step guide to planning qualitative research. It shows how the components of design interact with each other, and provides a strategy for creating coherent and workable relationships among these design components, highlighting key design issues. Written in an informal, jargon-free style, the book incorporates examples and hands-on exercises.  Stringer: Action Research 4e   The Fourth Edition of Ernest T. Stringer’s best-selling Action Research offers easy-to-follow, clear guidelines that enable novice practitioner researchers to move comfortably through a process of inquiry and applied research. Featuring real-life examples and providing effective solutions that foster understanding of research procedures in real-life contexts, the book offers a simple but highly effective model for approaching action research:  Look: building a picture and gathering information,  Think: interpreting and explaining, and  Act: resolving issues and problems.   Using his own experience as a guide, Stringer encourages readers to grapple with the broader political and ethical challenges that frame each inquiry. The author’s engaging style makes the book especially relevant to those working with children, young adults, or people in community contexts, and is particularly relevant to those dealing with issues of diversity or with marginalized and disenfranchised groups. Clear, concise, and practical, Stringer’s accessible and engaging book is a must for students and professionals in educational, business, health, counseling, and social work settings.

BUNDLE: Creswell: Research Design 4e + Maxwell: Qualitative Research Design 3e + Stringer: Action Research 4e

Maxwell, Joseph A.

Creswell, John W.

Action Research is an invaluable guide to both novice and experienced researchers from a diversity of disciplines, backgrounds, and levels of study for understanding how action research works in real-life contexts. The Fifth Editionbuilds on the experiences of the authors by acknowledging the dramatic changes taking place in our everyday lives, including developments of social and digital media that have become central to modern life. Author Ernest T. Stringer and new co-author Alfredo Ortiz Aragón aim to provide a meaningful methodology arising from their extensive field experience for both students and practitioners.&nbsp; Presenting research that produces practical, effective, and sustainable outcomes to real-world problems, Action Research helps students see the value of their research in a broader context, beyond academia, to effecting change on a larger scale.Additional resources can be found at the authors' website&nbsp;<a href="https://www.actionresearch5.com/">https://www.actionresearch5.com/</a>.

Ortiz Aragón, Alfredo

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Action Research in Education

Action Research: A Handbook for Practitioners

Action Research: A Handbook for Practitioners (Theories of Institutional Design)

Action Research

Action Research

Community-Based Ethnography: Breaking Traditional Boundaries of Research, Teaching, and Learning

Integrating Teaching, Learning, and Action Research: Enhancing Instruction in the K-12 Classroom

Action Research

BUNDLE: Creswell: Research Design 4e + Maxwell: Qualitative Research Design 3e + Stringer: Action Research 4e

Action Research