The Palgrave International Handbook of Action Research [electronic resource] /
Rowell, Lonnie L.editor.
Bruce, Catherine D.editor.
Shosh, Joseph M.editor.
Riel, Margaret M.editor.
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 by this community was born of the efforts of intellectual-activists in the mid-twentieth century specifically: Orlando Fals Borda, Paulo Freire, Myles Horton, Kurt Lewin. Cross-national issues of networking, as well as the challenges, tensions, and issues associated with the transformative power of action research are explored from multiple perspectives providing unique contributions to our understanding of what it means to do action research and to be an action researcher. This handbook sets a global action research agenda and map for readers to consider as they embark on new projects.
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
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 Meanings; Lonnie L. Rowell, Margaret Riel, and Elena Y. Polush -- Part II: A World of Action Research -- Introduction to Part II; Catherine D. Bruce and Lonnie L. Rowell -- 6. Action Research in the Canadian Context; Kurt W. Clausen -- 7. An Emergent History of Educational Action Research in the English Speaking World; Allan Feldman -- 8. Participation and the Work of the Imagination: A Colombian Retrospective; Joanne Rappaport -- 9. Action Research and Participatory Research in Brazil; Michel Thiollent and Maria Madalena Colette -- 10. Community Action Research in Ireland: Improving Educational Outcomes in the Dublin Docklands; Josephine Bleach -- 11. Creating a Pedagogy of Vocational Training for Young People not in Education, Employment or Training; Gil Mason and Joan Walton -- 12. The Experience of Lesson Study in the UK; Phil Wood, Alison Fox, Julie Norton, & Maarten Tas -- 13. A Snapshot of Action Research in and by Higher Education in Southern Africa; Lesley Wood, Catherine Dean, Pieter du Toit, Omar Esau, Angela James, Paul Rampaola Mokhele, & Ansurie Pillay -- 14. Community Mapping for Empowerment: Collectivising Adults for Action in the Slums of India; Manoj Rai -- 15. Learning About Action Research In and From the Middle East; Jean McNiff -- 16. Transformative Education for Gross National Happiness: A Teacher Action Research Project in Bhutan; Rosalind Cooper and Timothy Bedford -- 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 by this community was born of the efforts of intellectual-activists in the mid-twentieth century specifically: Orlando Fals Borda, Paulo Freire, Myles Horton, Kurt Lewin. Cross-national issues of networking, as well as the challenges, tensions, and issues associated with the transformative power of action research are explored from multiple perspectives providing unique contributions to our understanding of what it means to do action research and to be an action researcher. This handbook sets a global action research agenda and map for readers to consider as they embark on new projects.
International education .
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