1st Edition
International Action Research Educational Reform
Edited By Sandra Hollingsworth
Copyright 1997
350 Pages
by
Routledge
350 Pages
by
Routledge
351 Pages
by
Routledge
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How groups of people, from various educational settings worlwide, conduct research together is the subject of this book. Rather than wait for top- down policy changes in education, many practitioners are conducting research in order to implement reform from the bottom-up, the aim of this research being to progress action necessary for educational reform. The authors look at different aspects and... Read more
Action research and educational change, John Elliot; action research and societal change, Stephen Kemmis; action research and personal change, Marion Dadds and Sandra Hollingsworth; action research as praxis, Susan Noffke; political issues in action research, Andrew Gitlin; action research and social justice, Gaby Weiner; environmental issues in action research, Michaela Mayer; a cross-cultural look at teacher professional development, Hugh Sockett; social organizational development in a changing political environment, Sue Davidoff; everyday knowledge in action research, Melanie Walker; exploring personal language issues through action research, Begona Munariz and Gordon Wells; diaries as tools for personal awareness in higher education, Christine O'Hanlon; reflective practice and action research, Chris Day; action research, life history and the politics of identity, Ivor Goodson; personal and ethical issues in action research, Lydia Emerencia; vocational education and training, Richard Winter; governmental initiatives and higher education in action research, Herbert Altrichter and Kenneth Zeichner; putting patient centred nursing into practice, Angie Titchen and Alison Binnie; network issues in professional development, Peter Posch and Mag Gottfried Mair; contradictions of management theory, Bridget Somekh; action research with heads of primary schools, Bruno Losito and Graziella Pozzo; practitioners' responses; what did we learn? where did we need to go? Sandra Hollingsworth.
Biography
Sandra Hollingsworth
