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
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.
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*
"The whole text is a wonderful read and the final section is
inspirational and empowering."
*Belle Wallace*
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