The Palgrave International Handbook of Action Research /

The Palgrave International Handbook of Action Research offers a vivid portrait of both theoretical perspectives and practical action research activity and related benefits around the globe, while attending to the cultural, political, social, historical and ecological contexts that localize, shape an...

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Corporate Authors: SpringerLink Online service
Group Author: Rowell, Lonnie L; Bruce, Catherine D; Shosh, Joseph M; Riel, Margaret M
Published: Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
Publisher Address: New York :
Publication Dates: 2017.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
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Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-40523-4
Summary: The Palgrave International Handbook of Action Research offers a vivid portrait of both theoretical perspectives and practical action research activity and related benefits around the globe, while attending to the cultural, political, social, historical and ecological contexts that localize, shape and characterize action research. Consisting of teachers, youth workers, counselors, nurses, community developers, artists, ecologists, farmers, settlement-dwellers, students, professors and intellectual-activists on every continent and at every edge of the globe, the movement sustained and inspired
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (XLIX, 886 pages) : illustrations
ISBN: 9781137405234
Index Number: LB43
CLC: G51
Contents: Part I: Background and Contexts -- Introduction to Part I; Joseph M. Shosh -- 1. Critical Participatory Action Research; Robin McTaggart, Rhonda Nixon and Stephen Kemmis -- 2. Informal Action Research: The Nature and Contribution of Everyday Classroom Inquiry; Clive Beck -- 3. Emancipatory Action Research as a Critical Living Praxis: From Dominant Narrative to Counternarratives; Margaret Ledwith -- 4. Knowledge Democracy and Action Research: Pathways for the Twenty-First Century; Lonnie L. Rowell and Eunsook Hong -- 5. Defining Action Research: On Dialogic Spaces for Constructing Shared Mean