Action Research: A Handbook for Practitioners

Action Research: A Handbook for Practitioners

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Synopsis

Community-based action research seeks to involve as active participants those who have traditionally been called subjects. This book provides a a simple but highly effective model for approaching action research. The author 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.This revised edition contains summaries which provide a practical checklist fo researchers, and an appendix of electronic resources.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
Edition: Second Edition
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Published: 23 Aug 1999

ISBN 10: 0761917136
ISBN 13: 9780761917137

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.