Action Research

Community-based action research seeks to involve as active participants those who have traditionally been called subjects. This book provides a a simple but highly effective model for approaching action research.

The author describes a simple and effective model for approaching action research: Look - building a picture and gathering information; Think - interpreting and explaining; Act - resolving issues and problems.This revised edition contains summaries which provide a practical checklist fo researchers, and an appendix of electronic resources.

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Stringer (education and community development, Curtin U. of Technology, Western Australia) describes interactive research tools by which professionals and non-professionals who provide services to people in community, organizational, or institutional contexts can deal effectively with many of the problems that confront them during their work. Based on his decade in academia since the first edition, he makes his insights from community work more easily digestible by scholars. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

After an early career as primary teacher and school principal, Ernest T. Stringer was lecturer in education at Curtin University of Technology in Western Australia. From the mid-eighties, based at Curtin's Centre for Aboriginal Studies, he worked collaboratively with Aboriginal staff and community people to develop a wide variety of innovative and highly successful education and community development programs and services. His work with government departments, community-based agencies, business corporations and local governments assisted them to work more effectively with Aboriginal people. In recent years, as visiting professor at the University of New Mexico and Texas A&M University, he taught research methods courses and engaged in projects with African American and Hispanic community and neighborhood groups. As a UNICEF consultant he recently engaged in a major project to increase parent participation in the schools in East Timor. He is author of the texts "Action Research (Sage 2007)," "Action Research in Education (Pearson 2008)," "Action Research in Health" (with Bill Genat, Pearson 2004), and "Action Research in Human Services" (with Rosalie Dwyer, Pearson 2005). He is a member of the editorial board of the Action Research Journal and Past President of the Action Learning and Action Research Association (ALARA).