Action research as a living practice

Table of Contents:


• Reconceptualizing action research as a living practice
Dennis J. Sumara, Terrance R. Carson

• Winging it
Mary Aswell Doll

• The living fabric of memory
Dahlia Beck

• Uses of data in action research
Marie Brennan, Susan E. Noffke

• Psychoanalysis and pedagogy as living practices
Derek Briton

• Pedagogy in transferential time : casting the past of learning in the presence of teaching /
Deborah P. Britzman, Alice J. Pitt

• Reflection and its resistances : teacher education as a living practice
Terrance R. Carson

• Landscapes of loss : on the original difficulty of reading and action research
Pat Clifford, Sharon Friesen

• Impaired driving
Jean-Claude Couture

• Breaking the mold : transforming a didactic professor into a learner-focused teacher educator
Peter P. Grimmett

• Exploring sacred relations : collaborative writing as action research
Tweela Houtekamer [and others]

• "Their bodies swelling with messy secrets"
David W. Jardine

• Understanding development education through action research : cross-cultural reflections
Yatta Kanu

• Reverberating the action-research text
Rebecca Luce-Kapler

• Disruptions in the field : an academic's lived practice with classroom teachers
Janet L. Miller

• Drawing analogies : art and research as living practices
Rose Montgomery-Whicher

• Sojourning : locating ourselves in the landscape
Antoinette Oberg [and others]

• On keying pedagogy as an interpretive event
Paula M. Salvio

• Identity, self, and other in the conduct of pedagogical action : an East/West inquiry
David Geoffrey Smith

• Living within the space of practice : action research inspired by hermeneutics
Hans Smits

• Enlarging the space of the possible : complexity, complicity, and action-research practices
Dennis J. Sumara, Brent Davis

• Agency in organizational change
Michaela Thaler, Bridget Somekh ; with contributions from Stephen Draper and Gordon Doughty

• Accountability in action
John Willinsky.

This book aims to enlarge understandings of educational action research. Drawing from complexity theory, deep ecology, Eastern philosophy, hermeneutics, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, postmodernism, and literary theory, the essays in this collection show how participation in educational action research practices requires more of the researcher than the application of research methods. Each essay demonstrates how action research is a lived practice that asks the researcher to not only investigate the subject at hand but, as well, to provide some account of the way in which the investigation both shapes and is shaped by the investigator.


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