Action research is research that each of us can do on our own practice, that “we” (any team or family or informal community of practice) can do to improve its practice, or that larger organizations or institutions can conduct on themselves, assisted or guided by professional researchers, with the aim of improving their strategies, practices, and knowledge of the environments within which they practice.
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Action Research Resources - A large collection of resources on action research and related topics, including an on line course.
Action Research-Values Based Inquiries - This is a site for educators interested in researching their own professional practice. Included are stories of practitioner researchers working in most areas of education.
Actionresearch: An Overview - The article outlines several variants of teacher/action research, describing some of the different tools and intentions of a number of prominent qualitative researchers.
Meta Description: [ Forum: Qualitative Social Research is a multilingual online journal. Its main aim is to promote discussion and cooperation between qualitative researchers from different countries and disciplines. ]
Our People, Our Resources - Online handbook illustrating action-research concepts, methods and tools, for primary environmental care at the interface of population dynamics and natural resource management for rural communities.
Meta Description: [ A guidebook to concepts, methods and tools for primary environmental care, an approach that seeks to empower communities to meet basic needs while protecting the environment. In particular, it focuses on how population size, structure, growth (or decline) and movements relate to the quality of t... ]
Process in Our Participatory Action - The article proposes some ways of distinguishing action research and learning processes in research practices, particularly with regard to experiences of reconciliation at an inter-racial level.
Meta Description: [ Forum: Qualitative Social Research is a multilingual online journal. Its main aim is to promote discussion and cooperation between qualitative researchers from different countries and disciplines. ]
Reflexivity and Narratives in Action Research: A Discursive Approach - The paper offers an analysis of how narratives may be reflexively used at different stages of the research process as a tool to access the interpretative frameworks that actors use to construct their accounts of events and to make sense of their action.
Meta Description: [ Forum: Qualitative Social Research is a multilingual online journal. Its main aim is to promote discussion and cooperation between qualitative researchers from different countries and disciplines. ]
The Imoyase Group - Community programs, evaluation, action research, asset mapping and assistance with grant writing, culture-based research, program evaluations and community empowerment.
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