Action Research - A short list of resources
Link here to books
Judith Baser, Min Wilkie & Claire Taylor (2006) Doing Action Research: a Guide for School Support Staff. London: Paul Chapman
Emily Calhoun (1994) How to use Action Research in the Self-renewing School. Alexandra, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD). Excerpts available at:
http://www.ascd.org/Publications/Books/Overview/How-to-Use-Action-Research-in-the-Self-Renewing-School.aspx
David Coghlan and Teresa Brannick (2010) Doing Action Research in Your Own Organization, 3rd edition. London: Sage Publications
Louis Cohen, Richard Bell, Lawrence Manion & Keith Morrison (2011) Research Methods in Education, 7th edition. London: Routledge
Nancy Fichtman Dana (2013) Digging deeper into action research: A Teacher Inquirer's Field Guide Thousand Oaks Cal.: Corwin
John Elliott (1991) Action Research for Educational Change. Buckingham: Open University Press
Rob Halsall (ed) (1998) Teacher Research and School Improvement: Opening Doors from the Inside. Buckingham: Open University Press
Cher Hendricks (2012) Improving Schools through Action Research: a Reflective Practice Approach, 3rd edition. London: Pearson Education
David Hopkins (2008) A Teacher’s Guide to Classroom Research, 4th edition. Maidenhead: McGraw Hill Open University Press.
Stephen Kemmis and Robin McTaggart (1983) The Action Research Planner. Victoria: Deakin University
Kurt Lewin (1946) Action research and minority problems. Journal of Social Issues, 2(4): 34-46. Available at: http://bscw.wineme.fb5.unisiegen.de/pub/nj_bscw.cgi/d759359/5_1_ActionResearchandMinortyProblems.pdf
Mary McAteer (2013) Action Research in Education. London: Sage Publications.
http://www.uk.sagepub.com/books/Book237796#tabview=samples
Paul McIntosh (2010) Action Research and Reflective Practice: Creative and Visual Methods to Facilitate Reflection and Learning. London: Routledge
Christine Macintyre (2000) The Art of Action Research in the Classroom. London: Fulton
Jean McNiff and Jack Whitehead (2005) Action Research for Teachers: A Practical Guide. London: David Fulton Publishers
Jean McNiff and Jack Whitehead (2006) All you Need to Know about Action Research. London: Sage Publications Ltd
Jean McNiff and Jack Whitehead (2010) You and Your Action Research Project, 3rd edition. London: Routledge.
Craig Mertler (2013) Action Research: Improving Schools and Empowering Educators, 4th edition. London: Sage Publications
Geoffrey Mills (2010) Action Research: A Guide for the Teacher Researcher, 4th edition. London: Pearson Education
Ernest Stringer (2010) Action research in education, in Penelope Peterson, Eva Baker & Barry McGaw (eds) International Encyclopedia of Education (3rd edition). Amsterdam: Elsevier, pages 311–319. Available at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780080448947015311
Susan Wallace (2013) Doing Research in Further Education and Training. London: Sage Publications
Video
Action research. School Matters series. Teachers Media. 28 minute video about action research in practice with three case studies. http://www.teachersmedia.co.uk/videos/action-research
Websites
ActionResearch.net Jack Whitehead’s website hosted by Liverpool Hope University. http://www.actionresearch.net
jeanmcniff.com Jean McNiff’s website. http://www.jeanmcniff.com/
Collaborative Action Research Network (CARN). http://www.esri.mmu.ac.uk/carnnew/resources.php
CARN aims to encourage and support action research projects (personal, local, national and international), accessible accounts of action research projects, and contributions to the theory and methodology of action research
Introduction to action research. http://www.sitesupport.org/actionresearch/index.html
An online module about action research developed by John Hopkins University.
Action Research Journal blog http://arj-journal.blogspot.co.uk/
The ARJ blog is the web log for the print publication Action Research.
Journals
Action Research (Sage) http://arj.sagepub.com/
The Canadian Journal of Action Research (Open access) http://cjar.nipissingu.ca/index.php/cjar
Educational Action Research (Taylor & Francis) http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/reac20/current
Examples of action research project reports
Expansive Education Network (eeDNET)
Members of the Expansive Education Network have access to the reports produced by teachers arising from their action research projects. Login at: http://www.expansiveeducation.net/
Other examples
The following two reports are available on the CfBT website. The first is a collection of action research reports from teachers and the second is a collection of reports from the middle leadership practitioners in the same school.
Karen Whitby (ed) (2011) Action research at St Mark's Academy. Reading: CfBT Education Trust. Available at: http://www.cfbt.com/en-GB/Research/Research-library/2011/r-action-research-st-marks-1-2011
Practitioner research conducted by teachers within their own school, St Mark's Academy, examining their experiences in order to improve the quality of teaching and learning through their own research
Karen Whitby, Lisa Peterkin & Olivia Douse (eds) (2012) Action research at St Mark's Academy II. Reading: CfBT Education Trust. Available at: http://www.cfbt.com/en-GB/Research/Research-library/2012/r-action-research-st-marks-2-2012
A second action research publication from St Mark's Academy based upon the experiences of middle leadership practitioners within the academy. The publication focuses on broader issues relating to barriers to success within the school.