The SAGE Handbook of Educational Action Research Book

Introduction - Susan E. Noffke and Bridget Somekh
Revisiting the Professional, Personal and Political Dimensions of Action Research - Susan E. Noffke
PART I: ACTION RESEARCH METHODOLOGY: DIVERSITY OF RATIONALES AND PRACTICES
Introduction - Bridget Somekh and Susan E. Noffke
Working with and for Students and Schools
Building Educational Theory through Action Research - John Elliott
Teacher Research as Stance - Marilyn Cochran Smith and Susan L. Lytle
Professional Development, Teacher Voice and Knowledge Production
Dialogic Inquiry as Collaborative Action Research - Gordon Wells
Action Research and the Personal Turn - Sandra Hollingsworth Anthony Cody, Mary Dybdahl, Leslie Turner Minarik, Jennifer Davis Smallwood and Karen Manheim Teel
Policy and Change
Educational Action Research: A critical approach - Wilfred Carr and Stephen Kemmis
Action Research for/as/Mindful of Social Justice - Morwenna Griffiths
PART II: PROFESSIONAL: KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION, STAFF DEVELOPMENT, AND THE STATUS OF EDUCATORS
Introduction - Bridget Somekh and Susan E. Noffke
Working with and for Students and Schools
A School District-Based Action Research Program in the United States - Cathy Caro-Bruce, Mary Klehr, Ken Zeichner and Ana Maria Sierra Piedrahita
Using Action Research to Support Students with Special Educational Needs - Christine O'Hanlon
Renegotiating Knowledge Relationships in Schools - Chris Bigum and Leonie Rowan
Lesson Study as Action Research - Catherine Lewis, Rebecca Perry and Shelley Friedkin
Professional Development, Teacher Voice and Knowledge Production
Practitioner Action Research and EducationalLeadership - Gary L. Anderson and Kathryn Herr
Educational Action Research as a Paradigm for Change - Shoshana Keiny and Lily Orland-Barak
Practitioner Action Research: Building and sustaining success through networked learning communities - Chris Day and Andrew Townsend
Action Research and Educational Change: Teachers as innovators - Lesley Saunders and Bridget Somekh
Policy and Change
A School System takes on Exhibitions through Teacher Action Research - Marie Brennan
Action Research, Professional Development and Systemic Reform - Herbert Altrichter and Peter Posch
Sustaining the Next Generation of Teacher-Researchers to Work for Social Justice - Barbara Comber and Barbara Kamler
Co-operative Change Management through Practitioner Inquiry - Susan Groundwater-Smith
PART III: PERSONAL: SELF-AWARENESS, DEVELOPMENT AND IDENTITY
Introduction - Bridget Somekh and Susan E. Noffke
Working with and for Students and Schools
Ethics and the 'Personal' in Action Research - Jane Zeni
Writing to Learn: A process for the curious - Mary Louise Holly
From Passionate Enquiry to Loving Detachment: One researcher's methodological journey - Marion Dadds
The Interconnections between Narrative Inquiry and Action Research - Jean Clandinin and Debbie Pushor
Professional Development, Teacher Voice and Knowledge Production
Capabilities, Flourishing and the Normative Purposes of Action Research - Melanie Walker
Demonstrating Quality in Educational Research for Social Accountability - Jean McNiff and Jack Whitehead
Action Research and Pedagogy as Science of the Child's Upbringing - Petra Ponte and Jan Ax
Developing Relationships, Developing the Self: Buddhism and action research - Richard Winter
Policy and Change
Teaching and Cultural Difference: Exploring the potential for a psychoanalytically informed action research - Terrance Carson
Complexity Theory and Action Research - Dennis Sumara and Brent Davis
Agency through Action Research: Constructing active identities - Bridget Somekh
Existentialism and Action Research - Allan Feldman
PART IV: POLITICAL: POPULAR KNOWLEDGE, DIFFERENCE, AND FRAMEWORKS FOR CHANGE
Introduction - Bridget Somekh and Susan E. Noffke
Working with and for Students and Schools
Elbows Out, Arms Linked: Claiming spaces for feminisms and gender equity in educational action research - Patricia Maguire and Britt-Marie Berge
Students' Participation in School Change: Action research on the ground - Pat Thomson and Helen Gunter
Community Action and Agency in the Education of Urban Youth - Peter C. Murrell Jnr.
Professional Development, Teacher Voice and Knowledge Production
Social-Political Theory in Working with Teachers for Social Justice Schooling - Marie Brennan and Susan Noffke
Rethinking Action Research: Commonsense and relations of freedom - Andrew Gitlin
Participatory Action Research in Latin American Education: A road map to a different part of the world - Eduardo Flores-Kastanis, Juny Montoya-Vargas and Daniel Sußrez
Policy and Change
Teacher Development and Political Transformation: Reflections from the South African experience - Maureen Robinson and Crain Soudien
The Impact of Action Research in the Spanish Schools in the Post-Franco Era - Ángel I. Pérez Gómez, Miguel Sola, Encarnación Soto and Francisco Murillo
Popular Education and Action Research - Mary Brydon-Miller, Ismail Davids, Namrata Jaitli, M. Brinton Lykes, Jean Schensul and Susan Williams
Partnership Action Research for Social Justice: Politics, challenges and possibilities - Lew Zipin and Robert Hattam
Conclusions - Bridget Somekh and Susan E. Noffke