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SAGE PUBLISHING Sage Handbook Of Educational Action Research 2009 Edition Softbound by Susan E Noffke, Bridget Somekh
This handbook presents and critiques predominant and emergent traditions of Educational Action Research internationally. Now a prominent methodology, Educational Action Research is well suited to exploring, developing and sustaining change processes both in classrooms and whole organisations such as schools, Departments of Education, and many segments of universities.The handbook contains theoretical and practical based chapters by highly respected scholars whose work has been seminal in building knowledge and expertise in the field. It also contains chapters exemplifying the work of prominent practitioner and community groups working outside universities.The Editors provide an introduction and conclusion, as well as an opening chapter which charts the historical development of action research and provides an analysis of its underlying theories. The handbook is organized into four sections, each beginning with a short introduction:- Action research methodology: diversity of rationales and practices- Professional: Knowledge production, staff development, and the status of educators - Personal: Self-awareness, development and identity- Political: Popular knowledge, difference, and frameworks for change This is a key resource for scholars and graduate students at doctors and masters levels, as well as school leaders and administrators.Susan Noffke is Associate Professor of Curriculum & Instruction at the University of Illinois - Urbana/Champaign and co-editor with R.B. Stevenson of Educational Action Research (Teachers College Press, 1995). She taught at the primary school level for a decade, and has led masters and doctoral level courses in action research for the past 20 years. She continues to work with many collaborative projects with schools and school districts.Bridget Somekh is Professor of Educational Research at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. She is a founder editor of the Educational Action Research journal and has been a co-ordinator of the Collaborative Action Research Network (CARN) for many years. She is co-editor of Research Methods in the Social Sciences (SAGE: 2005) and author of Action Research: a Methodology for Change and Development (Open University Press: 2006). Introduction - Susan E. Noffke and Bridget SomekhRevisiting the Professional, Personal and Political Dimensions of Action Research - Susan E. NoffkePART ONE: ACTION RESEARCH METHODOLOGY: DIVERSITY OF RATIONALES AND PRACTICESIntroduction to Part IBuilding Educational Theory through Action Research - John ElliottTeacher Research as Stance - Marilyn Cochran-Smith and Susan L LytleDialogic Inquiry as Collaborative Action Research - Gordon WellsAction Research and the Personal Turn - Sandra Hollingsworth, Anthony Cody, Mary Dybdahl, Leslie Turner Minarik, Jennifer Davis-Smallwood and Karen Manheim TeelEducational Action Research: A critical approach - Wilfred Carr and Stephen KemmisAction Research for/as/Mindful of Social Justice - Morwenna GriffithsPART TWO: PROFESSIONAL: KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION, STAFF DEVELOPMENT, AND THE STATUS OF EDUCATORS Introduction to Part IIA School District-Based Action Research Program in the United States - Cathy Caro-Bruce, Mary Klehr, Ken Zeichner and Ana Maria Sierra PiedrahitaUsing Action Research to Support Students with Special Educational Needs - Christine O'HanlonRenegotiating Knowledge Relationships in Schools - Chris Bigum and Leonie RowanLesson Study as Action Research - Catherine Lewis, Rebecca Perry and Shelley FriedkinProfessional Development, Teacher Voice and Knowledge ProductionPractitioner Action Research and Educational Leadership - Gary L Anderson and Kathryn HerrEducational Action Research as a Paradigm for Change - Shoshana Keiny and Lily Orland-BarakPractitioner Action Research: Building and Sustaining Success Through Networked Learning Communities - Christopher Day and Andrew TownsendAction Research and Educational Change: Teachers as Innovators - Lesley Saunders and Bridget SomekhA School System Takes on Exhibitions through Teacher Action Research - Marie BrennanAction Research, Professional Development and Systemic Reform - Herbert Altrichter and Peter PoschSustaining the Next Generation of Teacher-Researchers to Work for Social Justice - Barbara Comber and Barbara KamlerCo-operative Change Management through Practitioner Inquiry - Susan Groundwater-SmithPART THREE: PERSONAL: SELF-AWARENESS, DEVELOPMENT AND IDENTITYIntroduction to Part IIIEthics and the 'Personal' in Action Research - Jane ZeniWriting to Learn: A process for the Curious - Mary Louise HollyFrom Passionate Enquiry to Loving Detachment: One researcher's Methodological Journey - Marion DaddsThe Interconnections between Narrative Inquiry and Action Research - Debbie Pushor and D Jean ClandininCapabilities, Flourishing and the Normative Purposes of Action Research - Melanie WalkerDemonstrating Quality in Educational Research for Social Accountability - Jean McNiff and Jack WhiteheadAction Research and Pedagogy as Science of the Child's Upbringing - Petra Ponte and Jan AxDeveloping Relationships, Developing the Self: Buddhism and Action Research - Richard WinterTeaching and Cultural Difference: Exploring the potential for a psychoanalytically informed action research - Terrance CarsonComplexity Theory and Action Research - Dennis Sumara and Brent DavisAgency through Action Research: Constructing Active Identities from Theoretical Models and Metaphors - Bridget SomekhExistentialism and Action Research - Allan FeldmanPART FOUR: POLITICAL: POPULAR KNOWLEDGE, DIFFERENCE, AND FRAMEWORKS FOR CHANGE Introduction to Part IVElbows Out, Arms Linked: Claiming spaces for feminisms and gender equity in educational action research - Patricia Maguire and Britt-Marie BergeStudents' Participation in School Change: Action research on the ground - Pat Thomson and Helen GunterCommunity Action and Agency in the Education of Urban Youth - Peter C Murrell Jnr.Professional Development, Teacher Voice and Knowledge ProductionSocial-Political Theory in Working with Teachers for Social Justice Schooling - Marie Brennan and Susan E NoffkeRethinking Action Research: Commonsense and Relations of Freedom - Andrew GitlinParticipatory Action Research in Latin American Education: A road map to a different part of the world - Eduardo Flores-Kastanis, Juny Montoya-Vargas and Daniel H SuarezTeacher Development and Political Transformation: Reflections from the South African experience - Maureen Robinson and Crain SoudienThe Impact of Action Research in the Spanish Schools in the Post-Franco Era - Angel I Perez Gomez, Miguel Sola Fernandez, Encarnacion Soto Gomez and Francisco Murillo MasPopular Education and Action Research - Mary Brydon-Miller, Ismail Davids, Namrata Jaitli, M Brinton Lykes, Jean Schensul and Susan WilliamsPartnership Action Research for Social Justice: Politics, challenges and possibilities - Lew Zipin and Robert HattamConclusions - Bridget Somekh and Susan E Noffke