Action Research in Education: Learning Through Practitioner Enquiry - Softcover

Vivienne Baumfield; Elaine Hall; Kate Wall

Softcover

ISBN 10: 144620720X ISBN 13: 9781446207208

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2012

Synopsis

Action Research in Education is an essential guide for any lecturer, teacher or student-teacher interested in doing research. This exciting new edition of a popular text is an important resource for any education professional interested in investigating learning and teaching. Building on the success of Action Research in the Classroom, the authors have revised, updated and extended this book to include examples from further and higher education. It maps out easy-to-follow steps for usefully applying an action research approach and is full of practical tips and examples of real-life practitioner research projects from a range of schools, colleges and universities.

About this title

About the Authors

I am Professor of Pedagogy, Policy and Innovation in the School of Education and my teaching and research focuses on the role of inquiry in teachers’ professional learning.  I am interested in the role of universities, and teacher educators in particular, in the creation and translation of knowledge about teaching and learning.  This interest is linked to the wider issue of the relationship between theory and practice in  professional development.

Expertise: qualitative and quantitative measures, research design, narrative interviewing, questionnaire design, analytic frameworks, research management.
Research interests: early literacy and language development, parental involvement, adult literacy and family literacy, teacher development and identity, learning and meta-cognition.

 Kate Wall is Professor of Education at the University of Strathclyde. A primary teacher by background, her work is characterised by enquiry-based partnership with children and practitioners of all ages and stages. 

From the Back Cover

Packed full of practical examples from both inside and outside the classroom this is an essential resource for any teacher interested in doing effective action research.

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 144620720X
• ISBN 13: 9781446207208
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 184