This handbook presents and critiques predominant and emergent traditions of Educational Action Research internationally.

Table of Contents

• Contributors
• Acknowledgement
• Introduction
• 1 Revisiting the Professional, Personal, and Political Dimensions of Action Research Susan E. Noffke
• Part I Action Research Methodology: Diversity of Rationales and Practices
• Introduction to Part I
• 2 Building Educational Theory Through Action Research John Elliott
• 3 Teacher Research as Stance Marilyn Cochran-Smith Susan L. Lytle
• 4 Dialogic Inquiry as Collaborative Action Research Gordon Wells
• 5 Action Research and the Personal Turn Sandra Hollingsworth Anthony Cody Mary Dybdahl Leslie Turner Minarik Jennifer Davis-Smallwood Karen Manheim Teel
• 6 Educational Action Research: A Critical Approach Wilfred Carr Stephen Kemmis
• 7 Action Research for/as/mindful of Social Justice Morwenna Griffiths
• Part II Professional: Knowledge Production, Staff Development, and the Status of Educators
• Introduction to Part II
• 8 A School District-Based Action Research Program in the United States Cathy Caro-Bruce Mary Klehr Ken Zeichner Ana Maria Sierra-Piedrahita
• 9 Using Action Research to Support Students with Special Educational Needs Christine O'Hanlon
• 10 Renegotiating Knowledge Relationships in Schools Chris Bigum Leonie Rowan
• 11 Lesson Study as Action Research Catherine Lewis Rebecca Perry Shelley Friedkin
• 12 Practitioner Action Research and Educational Leadership Gary L. Anderson Kathryn Herr
• 13 Educational Action Research as a Paradigm for Change Shoshana Keiny Lily Orland-Barak
• 14 Practitioner Action Research: Building and Sustaining Success Through Networked Learning Communities Christopher Day Andrew Townsend
• 15 Action Research and Educational Change: Teachers as Innovators Lesley Saunders Bridget Somekh
• 16 A School System Takes on Exhibitions Through Teacher Action Research Marie Brennan
• 17 Action Research, Professional Development and Systemic Reform Herbert Altrichter Peter Posch
• 18 Sustaining the Next Generation of Teacher-Researchers to Work for Social Justice Barbara Comber Barbara Kamler
• 19 Co-operative Change Management Through Practitioner Inquiry Susan Groundwater-Smith
• Part III Personal: Self-Awareness, Development and Identity
• Introduction to Part III
• 20 Ethics and the ‘Personal’ in Action Research Jane Zeni
• 21 Writing to Learn: A Process for the Curious Mary Louise Holly
• 22 From Passionate Enquiry to Loving Detachment: One Researcher's Methodological Journey Marion Dadds
• 23 The Interconnections between Narrative Inquiry and Action Research Debbie Pushor D. Jean Clandinin
• 24 Capabilities, Flourishing and the Normative Purposes of Action Research Melanie Walker
• 25 Demonstrating Quality in Educational Research for Social Accountability Jean McNiff Jack Whitehead
• 26 Action Research and Pedagogy as Science of the Child's Upbringing Petra Ponte Jan Ax
• 27 Developing Relationships, Developing the Self: Buddhism and Action Research Richard Winter
• 28 Teaching and Cultural Difference: Exploring the Potential for a Psychoanalytically Informed Action Research Terrance Carson
• 29 Complexity Theory and Action Research Dennis Sumara Brent Davis
• 30 Agency Through Action Research: Constructing Active Identities from Theoretical Models and Metaphors Bridget Somekh
• 31 Existentialism and Action Research Allan Feldman
• Part IV Political: Popular Knowledge, Difference, and Frameworks for Change
• Introduction to Part IV
• 32 Elbows Out, Arms Linked: Claiming Spaces for Feminisms and Gender Equity in Educational Action Research Patricia Maguire Britt-Marie Berge
• 33 Students' Participation in School Change: Action Research on the Ground Pat Thomson Helen Gunter
• 34 Community Action and Agency in the Education of Urban Youth Peter C. Murrell Jr.
• 35 Social-Political Theory in Working with Teachers for Social Justice Schooling Marie Brennan Susan E. Noffke
• 36 Rethinking Action Research: Commonsense and Relations of Freedom Andrew Gitlin
• 37 Participatory Action Research in Latin American Education: A Road Map to a Different Part of the World Eduardo Flores-Kastanis Juny Montoya-Vargas Daniel H. Suárez
• 38 Teacher Development and Political Transformation: Reflections from the South African Experience Maureen Robinson Crain Soudien
• 39 The Impact of Action Research in the Spanish Schools in the Post-Franco Era Àngel I. Pérez Gómez Miguel Sola Fernández Encarnación Soto Gómez José Francisco Murillo Mas
• 40 Popular Education and Action Research Mary Brydon-Miller, Ismail Davids, Namrata Jaitli, M. Brinton Lykes, Jean Schensul, and Susan Williams
• 41 Partnership Action Research for Social Justice: Politics, Challenges and Possibilities Lew Zipin Robert Hattam
• Conclusions