| Description |
vi, 157 pages : illustrations, forms ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Living educational action research -- 2. Starting your action research project -- 3. Doing your action research project -- 4. Monitoring and documenting the action -- 5. Techniques for dealing with data -- 6. Making claims to knowledge and validating them -- 7. Making your research public: creating your living theory |
| Summary |
This book gives practical guidance on doing an action research project as part of an award-bearing course. Packed with useful advice, it takes the practitioner-researcher through the various stages of a project, from action planning to writing the report. It deals comprehensively with gathering and interpreting the data, and also with issues concerning the criteria by which action research reports are judged. Its essentially practical approach will encourage readers to try out new strategies for improving their work. Action research is firmly established on award-bearing courses in INSET and continuing professional development. This book is essential reading for resource managers in schools, colleges and higher education institutions who are responsible for providing courses and support |
| Analysis |
Education Research |
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Education Research |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Published in association with Hyde Publications |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 149-153 |
| Subject |
Action research in education -- Methodology.
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Action research in education.
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| Author |
Lomax, Pamela, 1941-
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Whitehead, Jack.
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| LC no. |
96222720 |
| ISBN |
0415144752 (paperback) |
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