The Uncertain World of Adult Literacy: Reflections on Twenty-Five Years of Building Action Research Networks in North America / B. Allan Quigley -- Learning to Talk (Dialogically) at School: Creating the Discourse Conditions for Successful Collaborative Action Research / Heather Lotherington -- Looking Back and Looking Forward: A Retrospective and Prospective of Action Research and Physical Education in the Twenty-First Century / Daniel B. Robinson -- Roots and Wings: The Teacher Action Research Movement in Manitoba / Francine Morin -- Teachers as Researchers and Research Users / Daniel A. Laitsch -- Action Research by a Classroom Teacher: Professional Development at Its Best / Zoe Donoahue -- Grassroots, Pioneers, Indigenization, and More: Why Action Research Just Makes Good Sense in Saskatchewan / Sheena Koops -- Suicide Is (Never) Painless: Teachers' Experiences on the Edge of Life and Death / Peter Gouzouasis and Anita Prest -- Emotional Labour in Collaborative Action Research: The Power of Feeling in Critical Language Education / Sunny Man Chu Lau -- Teacher Candidates' Relationships to Knowledge and to Their Practices for Critical and Activist STSE Education / Sarah El Halwany, Majd Zouda, Chantal Pouliot, and Larry Bencze -- The Role of Action Research Tools in Facilitating Teacher Professional Learning: An Activity Theory Analysis / Karen Goodnough -- Leadership Development through Action Research: The Journey of One School District toward Collaboration, Inquiry, and Professional Learning / Pamela Adams -- Mathematics and Collaborative Action Research: Findings and Considerations of Two Large-Scale Canadian Studies / Cathy Bruce and Tara C. Flynn -- Performing Participatory Action Research: Stepping Forth out of Leadership / Lynn Fels -- Ethics and Politics in Participatory Action Research with Youth in Education Contexts / Linda Eyre -- Challenges to Equity-Based Teacher Education Initiatives: Practicum Dilemmas of Teacher Candidates / Manu Sharma -- PAR at the Crossroads: Prospects and Possibilities / Steven Jordan.
Summary:
"While the action research community across Canada is a vibrant one, it remains scattered, dismissed as rootless and still unproven. This book illuminates action research as a vital and long-established Canadian perspective, taking stock of its use in education by a wide array of scholars and practitioners. Reflecting an inclusive range of viewpoints from twenty-two scholars across the nation, chapters show without question that action research--encompassing collaborative, iterative, and practice-based research--is a growing field in Canada. Authors bring a range of experiences that speak to the many facets of this movement. They discuss historical foundations, individual and large-scale projects dealing with a multitude of subject areas and educational practices, and participatory methods that speak to the discipline's capacity to engage with the pressing social issues of our time. A timely intervention that threads the field together and serves as both a reference and a guide to further work, The Future of Action Research in Education draws clear links between the past and future and maps bold new directions for this approach."-- Provided by publisher.
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