You and your action research project / Jean McNiff.
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TextPublication details: London : Routledge, 2016.Edition: Fourth editionDescription: 298 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cmISBN: - 9781138910058
- 1138910058
- 370.78 MCN 23
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
You and Your Action Research Project is packed full of useful advice to take the reader through the various stages of an action research project. Written for practitioners across professions who are studying on work-based learning programmes and award-bearing courses, this book contains practical strategies for improving project work.
Split into the following five sections;
Thinking about doing a project, Getting ready to do a project, Planning a project and managing it, Doing your project, Evaluating your action research project,the structure is clearly accessible and easy-to-read, encouraging readers of cross-curricular interests from teachers, to nurses and social workers to try new approaches.
This fourth edition of the best-seller has been thoroughly updated and improved, with new and up-to-date case study material from a very wide range of disciplines, greater emphasis on the need for dialogical practices, points for reflection, more developed ideas about sorting and analysing data, and a stronger focus on writing as a form of research.
With key sections on engaging with the literatures and collaborative practices, whilst also developing ideas about writing and data analysis, this book will be essential reading for those wanting to begin and further develop their action research.
Jean McNiff is an independent researcher and writer, Professor of Educational Research at York St John University, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Limerick. She is also the author of key text Action Research: Principles and Practice .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- List of figures and tables (p. vii)
- Acknowledgements (p. viii)
- Introduction (p. 1)
- Part I Thinking about doing a project (p. 7)
- 1 Action research: what it is and what it is not (p. 9)
- 2 Who can do action research? Why should you do it? (p. 29)
- 3 Current issues in action research: what do you need to know that might affect your project? (p. 44)
- Part II Getting ready to do a project (p. 61)
- 4 Working with others in organisational and institutional settings (p. 63)
- 5 Ethics and influence (p. 81)
- 6 Engaging with the literatures: reading to support your project (p. 97)
- Part III Planning a project and managing it (p. 113)
- 7 Getting ready: designing and planning your action research project (p. 115)
- 8 Managing your project: checklists for action (p. 131)
- Part IV Doing your project (p. 161)
- 9 Monitoring the action, looking for data, and documenting the processes involved (p. 163)
- 10 Collecting and managing the data (p. 178)
- 11 Analysing and interpreting the data and generating evidence (p. 197)
- Part V Evaluating your project (p. 213)
- 12 Testing the validity of knowledge claims (p. 215)
- 13 Legitimation processes: presenting your reports and legitimating them (p. 231)
- Part VI Writing up and disseminating your knowledge and findings (p. 249)
- 14 Writing your academic report (p. 251)
- 15 Disseminating your work and getting published (p. 271)
- References (p. 285)
- Index (p. 300)