1st Edition
Action Research for Change and Development
New Preface Acknowledgements Foreword David Limerick Introduction Ortrun Zuber-Skerritt Part I: Reflections on the Foundations of Action Research 1. Defining, Confining or Refining Action Research? Herbert Altrichter, Stephen Kemmis, Robin McTaggart & Ortrun Zuber-Skerritt 2. Towards Action Research Systems Richard Bawden 3. From Action Research to Collaborative Enquiry: The Processing of an Innovation Peter Holly 4. Improving Education Through Action Research Stephen Kemmis Part II: Methodology 5. Do we need an Alternative Methodology for Doing Alternative Research? Herbert Altrichter 6. Developing Constructive Action: Personal Construct Psychology, Action Research and Professional Development Maureen Pope and Pam Denicolo 7. Action Research as a Model of Professional Development Ortrun Zuber-Skerritt Part III: Case Studies 8. Action Research in Teacher Education Kate Ashcroft and Morwenna Griffiths 9. Action Research for Aboriginal Pedagogy: Beyond ‘Both-ways’ Education? Robin McTaggart 10. Action Research in Medical Education: Improving Teaching via Investigating Learning Norman Eizenberg 11. Action Research in Facilitating Change in Institutional Practice John Jones Notes on Contributors Appendix One: List of Symposium Participants Appendix Two: Symposium Program
Biography
Ortrun Zuber-Skerritt, at the time of editing this book in 1991, was a Senior Lecturer in Higher Education at Griffith University, Australia. She is now retired. Her story as the University’s first female academic in 1974 has just been published by Griffith University Archive.
