Action Research Resources
Action research is an iterative process which converges towards a better understanding of what happens as a result of actions taken. Because practices involve other people, action research is participatory, often highly collaborative, and employs both quantitative and qualitative methods.
Graduate programs across the country are supporting students in action research. Many work settings have embraced action research as a collaborative form of organizational learning and professional development. The resources listed here can help both students and professionals as they engage in these thoughtful strategies to learn from practice.
Action Research Tutorials
The Center offers a set of twelve tutorials for learning how to do action research (interact tab provides more details). Each tutorial starts with a brief video introduction and then has a set of activities and resources to support them. There is also a workbook of templates for the set of action research activities that can be printed and distributed to students.These are offered to support the teaching or learning of action research and can be shared without cost or need for permission.
Action Research Websites and Journals
(updated Aug, 2020)
Action Research at Brown University
Action Learning, Action Research Association (ALARA)
Action Research Network of the Americas - ARNA
arnawebsite.org
Action Research For Professonal Development
Action Research SIG - AERA
sites.google.com/site/aeraarsig
Allan Feldman's Action Research Paper Portfoliowww-unix.oit.umass.edu/~afeldman/ActionResearchPapers/ARpapersindex.html
Centre for Collective Action Research (CeCar) -Sweden
cecar.gu.se//
Collaborative Action Research Network (CARN)
Educating as Inquiry - A Teacher Action Research Site
Educational Action Research Journal
i. e.: Inquiry in Education - An online peer review journal on practitioner research
digitalcommons.nl.edu/ie/
Living Educational Theory Approach to Action Research
Networks: An On-Line Journal for Teacher Research
journals.library.wisc.edu/index.php/networks
Moravian Repositiory of Action Research Reports
Supporting the Teaching of Action Research
star-arna-arc.org
Teacher & Action Research - George Mason University
gse.gmu.edu/research/tr/tr-action
Some Recommended Action Research Books
Palgrave International Handbook of Action Research (2017) Lonnie Rowell, Cathy Bruce, Joseph Shosh, Margaret Riel, Eds.
Teachers Investigate Their Work: An Introduction to Action Research across the Professions 3rd Edition
Allan Feldman, Herbert Altrichter, Peter Posch, & Bridget Somekh
Action Research for Business, Nonprofit, and Public Administration: A Tool for Complex Times
E. Alana James, Tracesea Slater & Alan Bucknam
Doing Action Research in Your Own Organization
David Coghlan & Teresa Brannick
Action Research in Education (BERA/SAGE Research Methods in Education)
Mary McAteer
All You Need to Know About Action Research
Jean McNiff & Jack Whitehead
Doing and Writing Action Research
Jean McNiff & Jack Whitehead
Action Research: Principles and practice
Jean McNiff
You and Your Action Research Project
Jean McNiff & Jack Whitehead
Action Research Plus Video-Enhanced Pearson eText -- Access Card Package (5th Edition)
Geoffrey E. Mills
Action Research
Ernest T. Stringer
The SAGE Handbook of Educational Action Research
Susan E. Noffke
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