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

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

by Ernest(Ernie)T.Stringer (Author)

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    Paperback 1996

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Synopsis

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 surrounding this type of research and ponders the future of community-based action research.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 255
 Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Published: 27 Mar 1996
ISBN 10: 0761900659
ISBN 13: 9780761900658

Author Bio
After an early career as primary teacher and school principal, Ernie spent many years as lecturer in teacher education at Curtin University of Technology in Western Australia. From the mid-eighties he worked collaboratively with Aboriginal staff and members of the community Curtin's Centre for Aboriginal Studies to develop a wide variety of innovative and highly successful education and community development programs and consultative services. Their activities with government departments, community-based agencies, business corporations and local governments assisted may people to work more effectively in Aboriginal contexts. In recent years, as visiting professor at universities in New Mexico and Texas, he taught action research to graduate students and engaged in projects with African American, Hispanic and other community and neighborhood groups. As a UNICEF consultant from 2002-2005 he engaged in a major project that assisted development of schools in East Timor. He is author of the texts Action Research (Sage 1999), Action Research in Education (Pearson 2004), Action Research in Health (with Bill Genat, Pearson 2004), and Action Research in Human Services (with Rosalie Dwyer, Pearson 2005). He is a member of the editorial board of the Action Research Journal and is President of the Action Learning, Action Research and Process Management Association.