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Action Research Jean McNiff

Action Research By Jean McNiff

Action Research by Jean McNiff

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Written with Jean McNiff's trademark enthusiasm and accessibility, this book - complete with a practical workbook - gives readers all they need to be able to do action research in their own context with confidence.

Action Research Summary

Action Research: All You Need to Know by Jean McNiff

This book gives you all you need to know about action research, why you need to know it and how it can help you become a self-reflective practitioner-researcher. It provides the ideas and frameworks to understand action research, combined with a practical workbook to guide you through the practicalities and complexities of doing action research in your own context.

Inside you will find:

  • An action plan to help you embark on your project
  • Guidance and advice on learning to ask the right questions as you progress
  • A full resource on writing up and communicating your results
  • Inspiration to explain the significance of what you have achieved, so that other people can learn with and from you.

Accessible and insightful, this is the complete start to finish guide to doing influential action research. It is the ideal companion for students and researcher-practitioners in any research setting, from education and health to business.

Action Research Reviews

Well structured, clearly written and accessible. I highly recommend it for anyone who plans to enhance their professional practice through action research.

-- Valsa Koshy

This is an empowering, practical, accessible book, embedded in a deeply humane understanding of research. It shows how and why practice is integral to a healthy, thinking world. It opens doors and enables you to turn lived experience into liberating professional enquiry.

-- Welby Ings

For anyone interested in action research, irrespective of experience and expertise, this text, explaining the origins, forms, process, problems and functions of action research, and how these relate to position and role of action researcher, should be essential reading.

-- Andrew Townsend

At a time when academic 'experts' are increasingly setting practice agendas, this scholarly but deeply practical book helps practitioners to reclaim ownership of their professions.

-- Gary Rolfe

Jean McNiff is an inspiration. Imbued by her values, she takes the 'mystique' out of action research and provides an accessible, practical and useful step by step guide to doing action research for novices and experts alike. This book will support action researchers to live by their values and produce robust accounts of their research. I look forward to recommending it as a 'must read' to my fellow action researchers.

-- Josephine Bleach

About Jean McNiff

Jean McNiff is Professor of Educational Research at York St John University, UK. She is also a Visiting Professor at UiT the Arctic University of Norway, and at the Beijing Normal University and Ningxia Teachers' University, People's Republic of China. Jean took early retirement from her position as deputy head teacher of a large secondary school in Dorset, UK. She went into business for herself, and developed her writing. Her textbooks on action research and professional education are now used internationally on workplace-based professional education courses and on higher degree courses. Jean provides interdisciplinary consultancy work to institutions around the world where she gives lectures and conducts workshops on planning, doing and writing action research. Jean aims to contribute to personal and social betterment through educational research. She encourages everyone to make their stories public in the form of their personal and collaborative theories of practice; and she firmly believes that each individual is able to contribute to social and planetary wellbeing by explaining how they hold themselves accountable for what they do. In this way she links education with moral accountability. She tries to bring the university to everyday contexts, and everyday contexts into the university, for it is only by involving everyone, she feels, that the world will become a better place for us all.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction PART I: WHAT DO I NEED TO KNOW? Chapter 1: What is action research? Chapter 2: Who can do action research? Chapter 3: The values base of action research Chapter 4: Critical times for action research PART II: WHY DO I NEED TO KNOW? Chapter 5: Why do action research? Chapter 6: The responsibility of practitioner-researchers: contributing to new practices and new learning Chapter 7: The responsibility of practitioner-researchers: contributing to new thinking and ideas Chapter 8: The responsibility of practitioner-researchers: engaging with the literatures PART III: HOW DO I FIND OUT? Chapter 9: Thinking about doing an action research project Chapter 10: Planning to do your action research Chapter 11: Carrying out your action plans Chapter 12: Evaluating the quality of your plans, practices and research PART IV: HOW DO I GENERATE EVIDENCE TO TEST THE VALIDITY OF MY KNOWLEDGE CLAIM? Chapter 13: Monitoring practices and gathering data Chapter 14: Working with data: analysing, authenticatin and interpreting Chapter 15: Generating evidence from the data and making knowledge claims: summary chapter PART V: HOW DO I TEST AND CRITIQUE MY KNOWLEDGE? Chapter 16: Testing the validity of your knowledge claim Chapter 17: Establishing the legitimacy of your knowledge claim PART VI: HOW DO I REPRESENT AND COMMUNICATE MY KNOWLEDGE? Chapter 18: Thinking about writing your dissertation Chapter 19: Writing up your dissertation PART VII: HOW DO I SHOW THE SIGNIFICANCE OF MY KNOWLEDGE? Chapter 20: The significance of it all References Index

Additional information

GOR010286212
9781473967472
1473967473
Action Research: All You Need to Know by Jean McNiff
Jean McNiff
Used - Very Good
Paperback
SAGE Publications Ltd
2017-05-03
288
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Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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