Professional Development Through Action Research Book

	List of Figures and Tables
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
1	Reflecting Where the Action Is: The Design of the Ford Teaching Project	7
2	Repositioning the Teacher in US Schools and Society: Feminist Readings of Action Research	19
3	Context, Critique and Change: Doing Action Research in South Africa	42
4	Changing the Culture of Teaching and Learning: Implications for Action Research	61
5	Is there a Difference between Action Research and Quality Development? Within or Beyond the Constraints?	73
6	Seeing-off Cuts: Researching a Professional and Parents' Campaign to Save Inclusive Education in a London Borough	89
7	Redefining, Reconstructing and Reflecting on the Group Process	103
8	The Never-ending Story: Reflection and Development	119
9	Can Action Research Give Coherence to School-based Learning Experiences of Students?	141
10	Discussion of a Pilot Project to Focus the Thinking of BEd (Primary) Students	155
11	Children's Perspective on Underachievement	175
12	Emotional Experiences in Learning and Teaching in a Distance Education Course	194
	Notes on Contributors	206
	Index	207