Action Research: A Handbook for Practitioners (Theories of Institutional Design) - Softcover

Stringer, Ernest T.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0761900659 ISBN 13: 9780761900658

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 1996

Synopsis

Community-based action research - a type of research undertaken by workers in a wide variety of community, organizational and institutional settings - is the subject of this book. The author provides a series of tools to help the researcher, whether novice or experienced in other types of research, comfortably through this research process.

After defining and placing community-based action research in the context of qualitative research methodology, Ernest T Stringer describes a simple and effective model for approaching action research: Look - building a picture and gathering information; Think - interpreting and explaining; Act - resolving issues and problems. In conclusion he considers issues of legitimacy surrounding this type of research and ponders the future of community-based action research.

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Review

'Stringer's book on action research provides an accessible introduction to conducting participatory inquiries for social change...This is a very good introductory volume that can spark ideas, dicussions, and (self-) reflection on how to better link theory and practice'
-- Forum: Qualitative Social Research, Vol.10, No.1, Art.10, January 2009

About the Author

Ernest T. Stringer is author of numerous influential books on action research, including Action Research in Education (2008), Action Research in Health (with Bill Genat, 2004), and Action Research in Human Services (with Rosalie Dwyer, 2005). After an early career as primary teacher and school principal, Stringer served as lecturer in education at Curtin University of Technology in Western Australia. From the mid-eighties, based at Curtin’s Centre for Aboriginal Studies, he worked collaboratively with Aboriginal staff and community people to develop a wide variety of innovative and highly successful education and community development programs and services. As visiting professor at the University of New Mexico and Texas A&M, he has taught research methods courses and engaged in projects with African American and Latino community and neighborhood groups. As a UNICEF consultant, he recently engaged in a major project to increase parent participation in the schools in East Timor. Stringer has served (until prior to publication of this book) as a member of the editorial board of the Action Research Journal and is past president of the Action Learning and Action Research Association (ALARA).

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0761900659
• ISBN 13: 9780761900658
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 255