All You Need to Know About Action Research

PART I: WHAT DO I NEED TO KNOW? 1. What Is Action Research? 2. Who Can Do Action Research? 3. The Underpinning Assumptions of Action Research 4. Where Did Action Research Come from and Where Is It Now? PART II: WHY DO I NEED TO KNOW? 5. Why Do Action Research? 6. Learning to Improve Practice 7. Contributing to New Theory 8. Evaluating Your Research PART III: HOW DO I FIND OUT? 9. Action Planning: Planning and Designing Your Action Research 10. Engaging with the Literatures 11. Doing Action Research: Carrying Out Your Action Plan PART IV: HOW DO I GENERATE EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT MY CLAIM TO KNOWLEDGE? 12. Monitoring Practice and Looking for Data 13. Gathering, Sorting and Storing Data 14. Turning the Data into Evidence PART V: HOW DO I TEST AND CRITIQUE MY KNOWLEDGE? 15. Testing the Validity of Your Claims to Knowledge 16. Establishing the Legitimacy of Your Claims to Knowledge 17. Engaging with the Politics of Knowledge PART VI: HOW DO I REPRESENT AND DISSEMINATE MY KNOWLEDGE? 18. Telling Your Research Story 19. Writing a Workplace Report 20. Writing a Report for Higher Degree Accreditation 21. Publishing and Disseminating Your Research PART VII: HOW DO I SHOW THE SIGNIFICANCE OF MY KNOWLEDGE? 22. Explaining the Significance of Your Research 23. Developing New Epistemologies for Workplace Cultures of Enquiry