The future of action research in education : a Canadian perspective /
edited by Kurt W. Clausen and Glenda L. Black.
- Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, (c)2020.
- 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographies and index.
The Uncertain World of Adult Literacy: Reflections on Twenty-Five Years of Building Action Research Networks in North America / Learning to Talk (Dialogically) at School: Creating the Discourse Conditions for Successful Collaborative Action Research / Looking Back and Looking Forward: A Retrospective and Prospective of Action Research and Physical Education in the Twenty-First Century / Roots and Wings: The Teacher Action Research Movement in Manitoba / Teachers as Researchers and Research Users / Action Research by a Classroom Teacher: Professional Development at Its Best / Grassroots, Pioneers, Indigenization, and More: Why Action Research Just Makes Good Sense in Saskatchewan / Suicide Is (Never) Painless: Teachers' Experiences on the Edge of Life and Death / Emotional Labour in Collaborative Action Research: The Power of Feeling in Critical Language Education / Teacher Candidates' Relationships to Knowledge and to Their Practices for Critical and Activist STSE Education / The Role of Action Research Tools in Facilitating Teacher Professional Learning: An Activity Theory Analysis / Leadership Development through Action Research: The Journey of One School District toward Collaboration, Inquiry, and Professional Learning / Mathematics and Collaborative Action Research: Findings and Considerations of Two Large-Scale Canadian Studies / Performing Participatory Action Research: Stepping Forth out of Leadership / Ethics and Politics in Participatory Action Research with Youth in Education Contexts / Challenges to Equity-Based Teacher Education Initiatives: Practicum Dilemmas of Teacher Candidates / PAR at the Crossroads: Prospects and Possibilities / B. Allan Quigley -- Heather Lotherington -- Daniel B. Robinson -- Francine Morin -- Daniel A. Laitsch -- Zoe Donoahue -- Sheena Koops -- Peter Gouzouasis and Anita Prest -- Sunny Man Chu Lau -- Sarah El Halwany, Majd Zouda, Chantal Pouliot, and Larry Bencze -- Karen Goodnough -- Pamela Adams -- Cathy Bruce and Tara C. Flynn -- Lynn Fels -- Linda Eyre -- Manu Sharma -- Steven Jordan.
"While the action research community across Canada is a vibrant one, it remains scattered, dismissed as rootless and still unproven. This book illuminates action research as a vital and long-established Canadian perspective, taking stock of its use in education by a wide array of scholars and practitioners. Reflecting an inclusive range of viewpoints from twenty-two scholars across the nation, chapters show without question that action research--encompassing collaborative, iterative, and practice-based research--is a growing field in Canada. Authors bring a range of experiences that speak to the many facets of this movement. They discuss historical foundations, individual and large-scale projects dealing with a multitude of subject areas and educational practices, and participatory methods that speak to the discipline's capacity to engage with the pressing social issues of our time. A timely intervention that threads the field together and serves as both a reference and a guide to further work, The Future of Action Research in Education draws clear links between the past and future and maps bold new directions for this approach."--