Action Research as a Living Practice
Published on 1. January 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
XXXVI, 358 pages
978-0-8204-3865-8 (ISBN)
Description
This book aims to enlarge understandings of educational action research. Drawing from complexity theory, deep ecology, Eastern philosophy, hermeneutics, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, postmodernism, and literary theory, the essays in this collection show how participation in educational action research practices requires more of the researcher than the application of research methods. Each essay demonstrates how action research is a lived practice that asks the researcher to not only investigate the subject at hand but, as well, to provide some account of the way in which the investigation both shapes and is shaped by the investigator.
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Persons
The Editors: Terrance R. Carson is Professor and Chair of the Department of Secondary Education, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. He has had wide experience with action research investigations in peace education, teacher education, and cultural studies. His publications include Toward a Renaissance of Humanity: Rethinking Curriculum and Instruction.
Dennis J. Sumara is Associate Professor of Education at York University, Toronto, Canada. He has published numerous articles in curriculum theory, action research, teacher education, and language arts education. He is author of Private Readings in Public: Schooling the Literary Imagination (Peter Lang).
Dennis J. Sumara is Associate Professor of Education at York University, Toronto, Canada. He has published numerous articles in curriculum theory, action research, teacher education, and language arts education. He is author of Private Readings in Public: Schooling the Literary Imagination (Peter Lang).