The action research dissertation : a guide for students and faculty /

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Author / Creator:Herr, Kathryn.
Imprint:Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, c2005.
Description:xvii, 155 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5664838
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Varying Form of Title:Dissertation
Other authors / contributors:Anderson, Gary L., 1948-
ISBN:0761929908 (cloth : alk. paper)
0761929916 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-145) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreward
  • Preface
  • Introduction: What is an Action Research Dissertation?
  • Action Research Traditions and Knowledge Interests
  • The Multiple Traditions of Action Research
  • Action Research and Organizational Development/Learning
  • Participatory Research: The Legacy of Paulo Freire
  • Action Research in Education
  • Emerging Approaches to Action Research
  • The Knowledge interests of Action Research
  • The Continuum of Positionality in Action Research
  • Insider: Researcher Studies Own Self/Practice
  • Insider in Collaboration with Other Insiders
  • Insider Initiated Studies with Outsiders
  • PAR: Reciprocal Collaboration (Insider-Outsiders Teams)
  • PAR: Outsider Initiated Studies with Insiders
  • Outsider(s) Studies Insider(s)
  • Quality Criteria for Action Research: An Ongoing Conversation
  • Delegitimizing Action Research: Opposition in the Academy
  • Redefining Rigor: Criteria of Quality for Action Research
  • Are the Findings of Action Research "Generalizable"?
  • The Politics of Action Research
  • Designing the Plane While Flying it: Proposing and Doing the Dissertation
  • The Dissertation Proposal
  • Where Do Action Research Questions Come from?
  • Issues of Design and Methodology
  • The Literature Review: Literature in Dialogue with the Data
  • Writing the Dissertation
  • Defending the Dissertation
  • What does a Participatory Action Research Dissertation look like?
  • Lynne Mock: Carving a Dissertation Out of a Participatory Action Research Project
  • Alice McIntyre: Initiating a Participatory Action Research Group
  • Action Research, Ethics, and the Institutional Review Board
  • Background to the Creation of the IRB
  • The Role of the Institutional Review Board
  • Final Thoughts
  • References
  • Appendix A.
  • Index