First Published in 1991, Action Research for Change and Development aims to bring together international experts in action research in higher education in order to present and discuss a variety of models of action research which have been developed in parallel in many parts of the world.
First Published in 1991, Action Research for Change and Development presents a collection of papers evolved from an international symposium on Action Research in Higher Education, Government and Industry held in Brisbane in 1989. The book is structured in three parts. Part one consists of reflections on the meaning and theoretical foundation of action research. Part two discusses various aspects of action research methodology; and Part three presents case studies of action research. The aim of the book is to bring together international experts in action research in higher education in order to present and discuss a variety of models of action research which have been developed in parallel in many parts of the world. This book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of education, higher education, business, industry, and community development.
New Preface Acknowledgements Foreword Introduction Part I: Reflections
on the Foundations of Action Research
1. Defining, Confining or Refining
Action Research?
2. Towards Action Research Systems
3. From Action Research
to Collaborative Enquiry: The Processing of an Innovation
4. Improving
Education Through Action Research Part II: Methodology
5. Do we need an
Alternative Methodology for Doing Alternative Research?
6. Developing
Constructive Action: Personal Construct Psychology, Action Research and
Professional Development
7. Action Research as a Model of Professional
Development Part III: Case Studies
8. Action Research in Teacher Education
9.
Action Research for Aboriginal Pedagogy: Beyond Both-ways Education?
10.
Action Research in Medical Education: Improving Teaching via Investigating
Learning
11. Action Research in Facilitating Change in Institutional Practice
Notes on Contributors Appendix One: List of Symposium Participants Appendix
Two: Symposium Program
Ortrun Zuber-Skerritt, at the time of editing this book in 1991, was a Senior Lecturer in Higher Education at Griffith University, Australia. She is now retired. Her story as the Universitys first female academic in 1974 has just been published by Griffith University Archive.
