Action Research in Practice: Partnership for Social Justice in Education

This book presents a collection of stories from action research projects in schools and a university. It shows how projects that differ on a variety of dimensions can raise similar themes, problems and issues.

Politics & Social Sciences

Kemmis, Stephen

Atweh, Bill

Weeks, Patricia

Sociology

Routledge

The Action Research Reader (Action research & the critical analysis of pedagogy)

Hyperion Books

First published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Becoming Critical - See Pb Ed

Carr, Wilfred

Social Sciences

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Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

EDUCACIÓN

This book aims to help teachers and those who support them to re-imagine the work of teaching, learning and leading. In particular, it shows how transformations of educational practice depend on complementary transformations in classroom-school- and system-level organisational cultures, resourcing and politics. It argues that transforming education requires more than professional development to transform teachers; it also calls for fundamental changes in learning and leading practices, which in turn means reshaping organisations that support teachers and teaching – organisational cultures, the resources organisations provide and distribute, and the relationships that connect people with one another in organisations. The book is based on findings from new research being conducted by the authors – the research team for the (2010-2012) Australian Research Council-funded Discovery Project Leading and Learning: Developing Ecologies of Educational Practice.

Changing Practices, Changing Education

Springer

This fully-updated and re-imagined version of the classic book offers a detailed outline for developing an action research project, focused specifically on Critical Participatory Action Research. Elaborates a new view of 'participation' and of 'practice.'

The Action Research Planner: Doing Critical Participatory Action Research

McTaggart, Robin

Nixon, Rhonda

This short book provides an introduction to the study of education, outlining the dual purpose of education – to help people live well and to help develop a world worth living in. It argues that education initiates people into forms of understanding, modes of activity, and ways of relating to each other and the world that not only help individuals to live good lives, but also help secure a culture based on reason, productive and sustainable economies and environments, and just and democratic societies. Subsequent chapters address the history of education in the West; explore how education reproduces the practices and forms of life in societies and groups, and also how it transforms them; and introduce the theory of practice architectures to explain what practices are composed of, and how they are enabled and constrained by local and more general conditions and circumstances. The book closes by showing how the theory of practice architectures unfolds to offer a theory of education – a theory that underpins the definition of education offered at the start of the book. Understanding Education is essential reading for anyone interested in the theory and practice of education.

Understanding Education: History, Politics and Practice (Springer Texts in Education)

Edwards-Groves, Christine

This textbook shows how people can and do transform the world through transforming their practices and the practice architectures that shape them, and contributes to contemporary practice theory. It provides an authoritative, comprehensive, and contemporary account of the theory of practice architectures, illustrated through examples drawn from years of research by participants in the Pedagogy, Education, and Praxis international research network from Australia, New Zealand, Finland, Norway, Sweden, the Netherlands, Colombia, and the Caribbean. Its content provides a variety of resources for researchers who are new to research using the theory of practice architectures. It includes tables to assist with the analysis of practices, and provides clear examples to aid understanding and application. This textbook provides readers with a thorough grounding in the theory and ways the theory of practice architectures has been used in investigations of social and educational practice.

Transforming Practices: Changing the World with the Theory of Practice Architectures (Springer Texts in Education)

This book introduces readers to the theory of practice architectures and conveys a way of approaching practice theory through developing a practice sensibility. It shows that, in order to change our practices, we must also change the conditions that make those practices possible. The book draws on everyday life to illustrate how we can see the world by watching it unfold in practices: it argues that life happens in practices. The theory of practice architectures takes the ontological nature of practices seriously by recognising that practices take place in the real world. Consequently, the book offers a new perspective on how practices happen amidst a vast world of happenings; on how we participate in the “happening-ness” of the world through our practices. It invites us to consider whether our practices reproduce or aggravate the contemporary environmental crises confronting the Earth, and whether we can transform our current practices to ameliorate these crises. Given its focus and scope, the book will benefit master’s and doctoral students in social and educational theory, early career researchers, and established researchers new to practice theory.

A Practice Sensibility: An Invitation to the Theory of Practice Architectures

Philosophy

A fully-updated and reworked version of the classic book by Stephen Kemmis and Robin McTaggart, now joined by Rhonda Nixon, The Action Research Planner is a detailed guide to developing and conducting a critical participatory action research project. The authors outline new views on ‘participation’ (based on Jürgen Habermas’s notion of a ‘public sphere’), ‘practice’ (as shaped by practice architectures), and ‘research’ (as research within practice traditions). They provide five extended examples of critical participatory action research studies. The book includes a range of resources for people planning a critical participatory research initiative, providing guidance on how to establish an action research group and identify a shared concern, research ethics, principles of procedure for action researchers, protocols for collaborative work, keeping a journal, gathering evidence, reporting, and choosing academic partners. 
Unlike earlier editions, The Action Research Planner focuses specifically on critical participatory action research, which occupies a particular (critical) niche in the action research 'family'. 
The Action Research Planner is an essential guide to planning and undertaking this type of research.

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Action Research in Practice: Partnership for Social Justice in Education

The Action Research Reader (Action research & the critical analysis of pedagogy)

Becoming Critical - See Pb Ed

Currículum: mas allá de la teoría de la reproducción (Spanish Edition)

Changing Practices, Changing Education

The Action Research Planner: Doing Critical Participatory Action Research

Understanding Education: History, Politics and Practice (Springer Texts in Education)

Transforming Practices: Changing the World with the Theory of Practice Architectures (Springer Texts in Education)

A Practice Sensibility: An Invitation to the Theory of Practice Architectures

The Action Research Planner: Doing Critical Participatory Action Research