Action Research

A volume in Applied Research in Education and the Social SciencesSeries Editor Jerry W. Willis, St. John Fisher CollegeThe first three chapters of Action Research: Models, Methods, and Examples covers the history,foundations, and basics of conducting action research projects. In those chapters you will learnabout the origins of action research as well as about the different methods and models of actionresearch - from the original approaches used by Kurt Lewin and his students in the 1940s and1950s to the diversity of current approaches to AR that are used to develop both solutions to realworld problems and to construct a better understanding of important issues and concern incommunities, schools, businesses, and organizations.The nine chapters in the second part of the book illustrate the many ways action research ispracticed today. Those chapters illustrate the use of action research methods to accomplisheverything from individual personal professional development to changing policies and practicesin large organizations and systems.The chapters detail many specific methods of doing AR such as participatory action research, emancipatory action research, designbasedaction research, collaborative inquiry, and many others.