Action Research

• Action Research Defined (Florida Atlantic University)
• What is Action Research? (Pathways)
• Introduction to Action Research (Dan MacIsaac)
• Action Research Resources (Bob Dick, Southern Cross University)
• Corollary sites (that reference this page)

  Articles

  • Baskerville (1999) Investigating Information Systems with Action Research
  • Borgia and Schuler (1996) Action Research in Early Childhood Education
  • Brooks-Cathcart Reflections on Action Research: Todays, Tomorrows & Yesterdays in my Backyard
  • Collins and Spiegel (1994) So You Want to Do Action Research?
  • Cousin (1998) A Checklist for Action Research
  • Dick (1993) A beginner's guide to action research
  • Dick (1993) How to conduct and report action research - a beginner’s guide to the literature mirror
  • Forgrave A Selection of Quotations Related to Action Research
  • Gabel (1995) An Introduction to Action Research
  • Huizer (1997) Participatory Action Research and People's Participation:
  • Huizer (1990) Participatory Action Research and People's Participation: Introduction and Case Studies
  • Johnson (1993) Teacher-As-Researcher
  • Kemmis (1993) Action Research and Social Movement : A Challenge for Policy Research
  • Kock (1997) Myths in Organisational Action Research: Reflections on a Study of Computer-Supported Process Redesign Groups
  • Kock (1996) Negotiation in Information Systems Action Research
  • Kock, McQueen, and Scott (1996) Can action research be made more rigorous in a positivist sense? The contribution of an iterative approach
  • Levinger (1999) Participatory Design History
  • Kurt Lewin
    • Lewin profile (Stephen Reese)
  • MacIsaac (1995) The Critical Theory of Jurgen Habermas
  • MacIsaac (1995) An Introduction to Action Research
  • Maynard Action Research for Information Management
  • Mettetal Classroom Action Research Overview
  • Newman (2000) Action Research: A brief overview
  • O'Brian (1998) An Overview of the Methodological Approach of Action Research
  • Prendergast Seven Stages in my First Action Research Project
  • Papers by Peter Reason
  • Riding, Fowell and Levy (1993) An Action Research Approach To Curriculum Development
  • Ryder and Wilson (1997) From Center to Periphery: Shifting Agency in Complex Technical Learning Environments
  • Schein (1999) Kurt Lewin's Change Theory in the Field and in the Classroom: Notes Toward a Model of Managed Learning
  • Smith (1999) Action research: A guide to reading.
  • Smith and Lytle (1998) Teacher Research Bibliography
  • Swepson (1998) Separating the ideals of research from the methodology of research, either action research or science, can lead to better research
  • Wadsworth What is Participatory Action Research?
  • Watt (1997) Action Research: Evolving Professional Practice through Collaborative Inquiry (Includes Summaries of AR projects)
  • Wells (1995) Co-Constructing Meaning: Some roles for research in Education
  • Yeaman (1995) Creating Educative Dialogue in an Infant Classroom
  Other resources:
  • National Action Research Network
  • Action Research at Queen's University
  • Action Learning, Action Research & Process Management Association Inc.
  • Action Research ListServ (AELaction)
  • PARnet Participative Action Research Network
  • The Ontario Action Researcher (archives)
  • Developing Inquiring Communities in Education Project
  • Action Research (Natural Resource Management changelinks, Willy Allen)
  • Action Research Electronic Reader (Ian Hughes and Bob Dick)
  • Networks: an online journal of Teacher Research
  • PARnet (Carla Shafer, Cornell)
  • CARE (University of East Anglia, Norwich)
  • Collaborative Action Research (Conference papers from the 1997 International Conference of the Collaborative Action Research Network)
  • CARPP (Peter Reason, University of Bath)
  • Educator Resources (McREL)
  • Action Inquiry Network (Tobias Brown)
  • Action Research Resources (Will Allen)

• Corollary sources

  Related topics:

  • Research
  • The Practitioner Researcher
  Martin Ryder mryder@carbon.cudenver.edu June 8, 2001