A Critical Action Research Reader

Contents: Ben W. M. Boog: The Emancipatory Character of Action Research, Its History and the Present State of the Art - Gaile S. Cannella/Yvonna S. Lincoln: Deploying Qualitative Methods for Critical Social Purposes -
Kimberly Kinsler: The Utility of Educational Action Research for Emancipatory Change - Marie Brennan/Susan E. Noffke: Uses of Data in Action Research - Carolyn M. Shields: Critical Advocacy Research: An Approach Whose Time Has Come - Phil Francis Carspecken: Limits to Knowledge and Being Human: What Is «Critical» in Critical Social Research and Theory? - Jennifer Esposito/Venus Evans-Winters: Contextualizing Critical Action Research: Lessons from Urban Educators - Eduardo Lopez: From Disillusionment to Hope: Bicultural Practitioner Research - Jennifer Zapata: Teaching Beyond the Skill and Drill: Reimagining Curriculum and Learning in a High-Stakes Testing Environment - Rachel Klimke: Big History, Little World: The Politics of Social Justice Curriculum in Advanced Placement World History - Nien N. Tran: Challenging Standardized Curriculum: Recognizing, Critiquing, and Attempting to Transform the Learning Process - Inga Wilder: Perceptions of Health Education among Adolescents in an Urban School: A Project to Promote Empowerment and Health Literacy in an Underserved Community - Caitlin Cahill: Doing Research with Young People: Participatory Research and the Rituals of Collective Work - Madeline Fox/Michelle Fine: Circulating Critical Research: Reflections on Performance and Moving Inquiry into Action - Carolina Muñoz Proto: In Search of Critical Knowledge: Tracing Inheritance in the Landscape of Incarceration - Jennifer Ayala: Split Scenes, Converging Visions: The Ethical Terrains Where PAR and Borderlands Scholarship Meet - A. Suresh Canagarajah: From Critical Research Practice to Critical Research Reporting - Kath Fisher/Renata Phelps: Recipe or Performing Art?: Challenging Conventions for Writing Action Research Theses - Jessica Blanchard: Narrative Study in the Classroom - Knowing What Was, What Is, and What Could Be - Lisa Sibbett: From Deficit to Abundance in the Classroom; Or What I Learned From Jayda - Rebecca Luce-Kapler: Reverberating the Action Research Text - Antoinette Olberg/Joy Collins/Colleen Ferguson/David Freeman/Rita Levitz/Mary Lou McCaskell/Brigid Walters: Sojourning: Locating Ourselves in the Landscape - Edward J. Brantmeier: Wounded in the Field of Inquiry: Vulnerability in Critical Research - Janet L. Miller: Disruptions in the Field: An Academic's Lived Practice with Classroom Teachers - Pamela J. Konkol/Simeon Stumme/Isabel Nuñez: Who Says We Can't Make a Silk Purse Out of a Sow's Ear?: Transforming Market-based Programs into Critical Education - Jeanine M. Staples/Talia Carroll/Donna Marie Cole-Mallot/Jennifer Myler/Corey Simmons/Julie Schappe/Theresa Adkins: Forming New Agreements: A Brief Critical Exploration of the Pedagogical Formations of Predominantly White, Preservice Teachers in an Urban Context - Stephen R. Couch: A Tale of Three Discourses: Doing Action Research in a Research Methods Class.