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Studying Your Own School

An Educator's Guide to Practitioner Action Research

Second Edition
By: Gary L. Anderson, Kathryn G. Herr, Ann Sigrid Nihlen

Foreword by Susan E. Noffke

Discover the most empowering pathway to improved practice in education!

The authors have extensively revised their best-selling book to include the latest investigative methods and reflect the current educational environment. Packed with updated examples, this book is unique in providing the theoretical and historical underpinnings of practitioner action research and all the "how-to" information necessary for successful classroom application. New features include:

A "Getting Started" chapter on initial issues and considerations
Additional advice on crafting the research question and research design
Up-to-date information on political and ethical considerations
New examples of practitioner action research studies

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Grade Level: K-12
ISBN: 9781412940337
Published By: Corwin
Year: 2007
Page Count: 272
Publication date: March 01, 2007

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"While there are many books out there on action research, few immerse the reader so effectively in the nitty-gritty realities of the method, while also pushing school practitioners to use inquiry to challenge an unacceptable status quo. This text should be read by all teachers and school leaders who care about empowering students and communities through action research."
—Ruth Johnson, Professor of Educational Administration, California State University, Los Angeles
Author, Using Data to Close the Achievement Gap

"A highly accessible and informative book for K–12 educators and university graduate students. Provides very useful examples of what action research looks like when carried out in schools. This book has always been at the top of my recommended resources list."
—Ken Zeichner, Hoefs-Bascom Professor of Teacher Education, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Discover the most empowering pathway to improved practice in education!

Since the publication of the first edition of Studying Your Own School, practitioner action research has become an established professional development practice in schools and teacher education programs. While the fundamentals of practitioner action research have not changed, the challenges of large scale reform have dramatically altered the context of teaching.

This extensive revision of the best-selling book includes the latest investigative methods and reflects the current educational environment. New features of the second edition include

A "Getting Started" chapter on initial issues and considerations
More advice on crafting the research question and research design
Up-to-date information on political and ethical considerations
New examples of practitioner action research studies
A focus on promoting equity and social justice

Packed with updated examples to help orient the reader, this book is unique in providing the theoretical and historical underpinnings of practitioner action research and all the "how-to" information necessary for successful classroom application.

Key features

Promotes equity and social justice
Includes real examples of action research studies
Empowers teachers to help students

Author(s)

Gary L. Anderson

Gary L. Anderson is a professor in the Department of Administration, Leadership, and Technology in the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, New York University. He is a former teacher and high school principal. He has written numerous articles on action research with co-author Kathryn Herr as well as articles and books on educational policy and leadership. He is the author of Advocacy Leadership: Toward a Post-reform Agenda (Routledge).

Kathryn G. Herr

Kathryn Herr is a professor in the family and child studies department of Montclair State University. She has been actively engaged in practitioner research as a middle school counselor and teacher. She has studied issues of ethnic identity and gender relations in early adolescence. The results of her work have been published in the International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education and The 1992 Politics of Education Association Yearbook. She was previously an associate professor in the College of Education at the University of New Mexico and editor of the Sage journal Youth and Society.

Ann Sigrid Nihlen

Table of Contents

Foreword by Susan E. Noffke

Acknowledgments

Preface

About the Authors

1. What Is Action Research?

2. Merging Educational Practice and Research: A New Paradigm

3. What Does Practitioner Action Research Look Like?

4. Empowerment and Practitioner Action Research: An Example

5. The Research Question, Ethical Considerations, and Research Design

6. Qualitative Research Approaches for Practitioner Action Research

References

Index

Reviews

"A highly accessible and informative book that can be used both with K–12 educators and university graduate students. Provides very useful examples of what action research looks like when carried out in schools."

Ken Zeichner, Hoefs-Bascom Professor of Teacher Education
University of Wisconsin, Madison

"This text should be read by all teachers and school leaders who care about empowering students and communities through action research."

Ruth Johnson, Professor, California State University, Los Angeles
Author, Using Data to Close the Achievement Gap

Other Titles in: Staff Development & Professional Learning | Data-Driven Decision Making | School Change, Reform, & Restructuring

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