The Future of Action Research in Education: A Canadian Perspective

While the action research community across Canada is a vibrant one, it remains scattered, dismissed as rootless and still unproven. This book illuminates action research as a vital and long-established Canadian perspective, taking stock of its use in education by a wide array of scholars and practitioners.

Reflecting an inclusive range of viewpoints from twenty-two scholars across the nation, chapters show without question that action research - encompassing collaborative, iterative, and practice-based research - is a growing field in Canada. Authors bring a range of experiences that speak to the many facets of this movement. They discuss historical foundations, individual and large-scale projects dealing with a multitude of subject areas and educational practices, and participatory methods that speak to the discipline's capacity to engage with the pressing social issues of our time.

A timely intervention that threads the field together and serves as both a reference and a guide to further work, The Future of Action Research in Education draws clear links between the past and future and maps bold new directions for this approach.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022800098X
• ISBN13: 9780228000983
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.8"