International Action Research Book

	Acknowledgments
	Foreword
Sect. I	Multiple Perspectives and Discourses on Action Research	1
1	Themes and Tensions in US Action Research: Towards Historical Analysis	2
2	School-based Curriculum Development and Action Research in the United Kingdom	17
3	Practitioners, Higher Education and Government Initiatives in the Development of Action Research: The Case of Austria	30
4	Educational Action Research in Australia: Organization and Practice	40
5	The Examined Experience of Action Research: The Person Within the Process	49
Sect. II	Political/Epistemological Perspectives on Action Research	61
6	Reconstructing the Politics of Action in Action Research	63
7	Educative Research: Acting on Power Relations in the Classroom	70
8	Action Research and Social Justice: Some Experiences of Schools in the Inner City	85
9	School Organization Development in a Changing Political Environment	100
10	Action Research and the Production of Knowledge: The Experience of an International Project on Environmental Education	112
11	Critical, Collaborative Action Research in Politically Contested Times	124
Sect. III	Personal/Pedagogical Perspectives on Action Research	135
12	Transgressing Boundaries: Everyday/Academic Discourses	136
13	Modes of Discourse for Living, Learning and Teaching	147
14	Classroom-centered Research at Chulalongkorn University Language Institute	157
15	The Professional Journal, Genres and Personal Development in Higher Education	168
16	Gender Equity in an Elementary Classroom: The Power of Praxis in Action Research	179
17	Working with the Different Selves of Teachers: Beyond Comfortable Collaboration	190
18	Action Research and 'The Reflexive Project of Selves'	204
19	Using Participatory Action Research for the Reconceptualization of Educational Practice	219
Sect. IV	Cross-professional Perspectives on Action Research	225
20	The Ambiguities of Educational Reform: Action Research and Competence Specification in Social Work Education	226
21	The Environments of Action Research in Malaysia	238
22	Creating a Learning Culture: A Story of Change in Hospital Nursing	244
23	Dynamic Networking and Community Collaboration: The Cultural Scope of Education Action Research	261
24	Contradictions of Management Theory, Organizational, Cultures and the Self	275
25	The Double Track: The Dichotomy of Roles in Action Research	288
26	An Exploration in Cross-cultural Pedagogical Innovation	300
Sect. V	Looking Across Political, Personal and Professional Perspectives	311
27	Epilogue: What Have We Learned from These Cases on Action Research and Educational Reform?	312
	Notes on Contributors	318
	Index	327