Action Research

• Utgivningsdatum: 2006-03-15
• Mått: 170 x 242 x 15 mm
• Vikt: 340 g
• Format: Häftad
• Språk: Engelska
• Antal sidor: 192
• Upplaga: 1
• Förlag: SAGE Publications Inc
• ISBN: 9781412908559

• Sociologi

Jean McNiff is Professor of Educational Research at York St John University, UK. She is also a Visiting Professor at UiT the Arctic University of Norway, and at the Beijing Normal University and Ningxia Teachers’ University, People’s Republic of China. Jean took early retirement from her position as deputy head teacher of a large secondary school in Dorset, UK. She went into business for herself, and developed her writing. Her textbooks on action research and professional education are now used internationally on workplace-based professional education courses and on higher degree courses. Jean provides interdisciplinary consultancy work to institutions around the world where she gives lectures and conducts workshops on planning, doing and writing action research.Jean aims to contribute to personal and social betterment through educational research. She encourages everyone to make their stories public in the form of their personal and collaborative theories of practice; and she firmly believes that each individual is able to contribute to social and planetary wellbeing by explaining how they hold themselves accountable for what they do. In this way she links education with moral accountability. She tries to bring the university to everyday contexts, and everyday contexts into the university, for it is only by involving everyone, she feels, that the world will become a better place for us all.

A leading text in its field which articulates well the key epistemological basis of this type of research - the impact of the ′reflexive-self′ on the process and outcomes of research. Not only does this act to counter longstanding critique about the ′observer stance′ of more traditional research approaches, it also tells you how to go about designing research of a more emancipatory nature. Dr Alyson Nicholds, Senior Lecturer, Middlesex University Business School, London.

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