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Action Research Methodology Social Sciences


Action research can be described as a family of research methodologies which pursue action (or change) and research (or understanding) at the same time. In most of its forms it does this by In most of its forms it is also participative (among other reasons, change is usually easier to achieve when those affected by the change are involved) and qualitative.

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  • Action Research-Values Based Inquiries - For educators interested in researching their own professional practice. Included are stories of practitioner researchers working in most areas of education.
  • Our People, Our Resources - Online handbook illustrating action-research concepts, methods and tools, for primary environmental care at the interface of population dynamics and natural resource management for rural communities.
  • The Imoyase Group - Community programs, evaluation, action research, asset mapping and assistance with grant writing, culture-based research, program evaluations and community empowerment.
  • Process in Our Participatory Action - The article proposes some ways of distinguishing action research and learning processes in research practices, particularly with regard to experiences of reconciliation at an inter-racial level.
  • Action Research Resources - A large collection of resources on action research and related topics, including an on line course.
  • Actionresearch: An Overview - The article outlines several variants of teacher/action research, describing some of the different "tools" and "intentions" of a number of prominent qualitative researchers.
  • Reflexivity and Narratives in Action Research: A Discursive Approach - The paper offers an analysis of how narratives may be reflexively used at different stages of the research process as a tool to access the interpretative frameworks that actors use to construct their accounts of events and to make sense of their action.


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