The Sage Handbook of Educational Action Research

Introduction Revisiting the Professional, Personal and Political Dimensions of Action Research PART ONE: ACTION RESEARCH METHODOLOGY: DIVERSITY OF RATIONALES AND PRACTICES Introduction to Part I Building Educational Theory through Action Research Teacher Research as Stance Dialogic Inquiry as Collaborative Action Research Action Research and the Personal Turn Educational Action Research: A critical approach Action Research for/as/Mindful of Social Justice PART TWO: PROFESSIONAL: KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION, STAFF DEVELOPMENT, AND THE STATUS OF EDUCATORS Introduction to Part II A School District-Based Action Research Program in the United States Using Action Research to Support Students with Special Educational Needs Renegotiating Knowledge Relationships in Schools Lesson Study as Action Research Professional Development, Teacher Voice and Knowledge Production Practitioner Action Research and Educational Leadership Educational Action Research as a Paradigm for Change Practitioner Action Research: Building and Sustaining Success Through Networked Learning Communities Action Research and Educational Change: Teachers as Innovators A School System Takes on Exhibitions through Teacher Action Research Action Research, Professional Development and Systemic Reform Sustaining the Next Generation of Teacher-Researchers to Work for Social Justice Co-operative Change Management through Practitioner Inquiry PART THREE: PERSONAL: SELF-AWARENESS, DEVELOPMENT AND IDENTITY Introduction to Part III Ethics and the 'Personal' in Action Research Writing to Learn: A process for the Curious From Passionate Enquiry to Loving Detachment: One researcher's Methodological Journey The Interconnections between Narrative Inquiry and Action Research Capabilities, Flourishing and the Normative Purposes of Action Research Demonstrating Quality in Educational Research for Social Accountability Action Research and Pedagogy as Science of the Child's Upbringing Developing Relationships, Developing the Self: Buddhism and Action Research Teaching and Cultural Difference: Exploring the potential for a psychoanalytically informed action research Complexity Theory and Action Research Agency through Action Research: Constructing Active Identities from Theoretical Models and Metaphors Existentialism and Action Research PART FOUR: POLITICAL: POPULAR KNOWLEDGE, DIFFERENCE, AND FRAMEWORKS FOR CHANGE Introduction to Part IV Elbows Out, Arms Linked: Claiming spaces for feminisms and gender equity in educational action research Students' Participation in School Change: Action research on the ground Community Action and Agency in the Education of Urban Youth Professional Development, Teacher Voice and Knowledge Production Social-Political Theory in Working with Teachers for Social Justice Schooling Rethinking Action Research: Commonsense and Relations of Freedom Participatory Action Research in Latin American Education: A road map to a different part of the world Teacher Development and Political Transformation: Reflections from the South African experience The Impact of Action Research in the Spanish Schools in the Post-Franco Era Popular Education and Action Research Partnership Action Research for Social Justice: Politics, challenges and possibilities Conclusions