| Description |
vii, 283 pages ; 23 cm |
| Series |
SUNY series, teacher preparation and development |
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SUNY series in teacher preparation and development.
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| Contents |
1. Reading the Collection / Robin McTaggart -- 2. Guiding Principles for Participatory Action Research / Robin McTaggart -- 3. Action Research: A Closed Chapter in the History of German Social Science? / Herbert Altrichter and Peter Gstettner -- 4. Action Research: The Problem of Participation / Clem Adelman -- 5. Participatory Action Research in Colombia: Some Personal Feelings / Orlando Fals Borda -- 6. Toward an Epistemology of Participatory Research / Anil Chaudhary -- 7. Participatory Educational Research in Australia: The First Wave - 1976 to 1986 / Shirley Grundy -- 8. Participatory Research in Venezuela: 1973 to 1991 / John Dinan and Yuraima Garcia -- 9. A Background to Action Research in Spain / Maria Saez Brezmes -- 10. Sources of a Theory for Action Research in the United States of America / William H. Schubert and Ann Lopez-Schubert -- 11. Integrating Participatory Action Research Tools in New Caledonia / Jean Delion |
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12. Action Research: Improving Learning from Experience in Nurse Education in Thailand / Arphorn Chuaprapaisilp -- 13. A Census as Participatory Research / Srilatha Batliwala and Sheela Patel |
| Summary |
In this book the authors tell their stories of action research in their own ways, and indeed, give expression to their own cultural positioning as they draw upon their extensive experience in the field and the academy. They write in terms of their own experience, but with a collective as well as individual purpose. Contributors describe the history of participatory action research, and identify its interpretations in the diverse cultural contexts of Colombia, India, Austria, Australia, Venezuela, USA, England, Spain, Thailand, and New Caledonia. Drawing on the fields of nursing, education, community development, land reform, popular education, agriculture, and mass media, the authors describe the development of democratic research practice in quite different institutional and cultural contexts. Teachers, social workers, managers, nurses, adult educators, and agricultural extension and community development workers will all find this collection of writings from key participatory action research practitioners useful and informative |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Action research in education -- Cross-cultural studies.
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| Author |
McTaggart, Robin.
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ebrary, Inc.
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| LC no. |
96052807 |
| ISBN |
0791435334 (HC : alk. paper) |
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0791435342 (PB : alk. paper) |
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