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Action Research in Education: Learning Through Practitioner Enquiry
Contributor(s): Baumfield, Vivienne Marie (Author), Hall, Elaine (Author), Wall, Kate (Author)
ISBN: 144620720X     ISBN-13: 9781446207208
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
OUR PRICE:   $55.10  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: January 2013
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BISAC Categories:
- Education | Research
Dewey: 370.72
LCCN: 2012947687
Physical Information: 0.4" H x 6.6" W x 9.4" (0.65 lbs) 184 pages
 
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Action Research in Education is an essential guide for any lecturer, teacher or student-teacher interested in doing research. This exciting new edition of a popular text is an important resource for any education professional interested in investigating learning and teaching. Building on the success of Action Research in the Classroom, the authors have revised, updated and extended this book to include examples from further and higher education. It maps out easy-to-follow steps for usefully applying an action research approach and is full of practical tips and examples of real-life practitioner research projects from a range of schools, colleges and universities.


Contributor Bio(s): Hall, Elaine: - Expertise: qualitative and quantitative measures, research design, narrative interviewing, questionnaire design, analytic frameworks, research management.
Research interests: early literacy and language development, parental involvement, adult literacy and family literacy, teacher development and identity, learning and meta-cognition.Baumfield, Vivienne Marie: - I am Professor of Pedagogy, Policy and Innovation in the School of Education and my teaching and research focuses on the role of inquiry in teachers' professional learning. I am interested in the role of universities, and teacher educators in particular, in the creation and translation of knowledge about teaching and learning. This interest is linked to the wider issue of the relationship between theory and practice in professional development.