All you need to know about action research

Introduction

Part I. What do I need to know?

1. What is action research?

2. Who can do action research?

3. The underpinning assumptions of action research

4. Where did action research come from and where is it now?

Part II. Why do I need to know?

5. Why do action research?

6. Learning to improve practice

7. Contributing to new theory

8. Evaluating your research

Part III. How do I find out?

9. Action planning : planning and designing your action research

10. Engaging with the literatures

11. Doing action research : carrying out your action plan

Part IV. How do I generate evidence to support my claim to knowledge?

12. Monitoring practice and looking for data

13. Gathering, sorting and storing data

14. Turning the data into evidence

Part V. How do I test and critique my knowledge?

15. Testing the validity of your claims to knowledge

16. Establishing the legitimacy of your claims to knowledge

17. Engaging with the politics of knowledge

Part VI. How do I represent and disseminate my knowledge?

18. Telling your research story

19. Writing a workplace report

20. Writing a report for higher degree accreditation

21. Publishing and disseminating your research

Part VII. How do I show the significance of my knowledge?

22. Explaining the significance of your research

23. Developing new epistemologies for workplace cultures of enquiry.