Action research for educational change / John Elliott.

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Written to support an intensive short course on the subject. The material is presented as a subset of electronic warfare and is concerned primarily with systems which generate and radiate signals to interfere with hostile radar systems. Chapters deal with search and track radar range and angle countermeasures, resource management, and radar-ECM challenges. Acidic paper. An examination of action research as a form of teacher professional development, action research being defined as situation with a view to improving the quality of action within it The movement emerged in England during the 1960s as an aspect of the school-based curriculum reforms in the secondary modern schools. Distributed by Taylor and Francis. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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• 1 Action research and professional learning teachers as researchers
• An historical and biographical context supporting professional learning through action research
• Three case studies
• 2 Action research
• Dilemmas and innovation the theory/practice problem the fundamental characteristics of action research the dilemmas and temptations of the reflective practitioner a practical guide to action research
• 3 Action research in policy contexts action research and the emergence of teacher appraisal in the UK competency based training and the education of the professions
• Is a happy marriage possible ?
• The national curriculum and models of curriculum development