Action research : a handbook for practitioners

Author(s)

• Stringer, Ernest T.

Bibliographic Information

Action research : a handbook for practitioners

Ernest T. Stringer

Sage Publications, c1996

• : hard
• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-163) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Community-based action research - a type of research undertaken by workers in a wide variety of community, organizational and institutional settings - is the subject of this book. The author provides a series of tools to help the researcher, whether novice or experienced in other types of research, comfortably through this research process. After defining and placing community-based action research in the context of qualitative research methodology, Ernest T Stringer 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. In conclusion he considers issues of legitimacy surrounding this type of research and ponders the future of community-based action research.

Table of Contents

Foreword - Egon Guba Research in Professional and Public Life Principles of Community-Based Action Research Setting the Stage Look Building the Picture Think Interpreting and Explaining Act Resolving the Problems Act Resolving Complex Problems This Is Not the End

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Details

• NCID: BA28133831
• ISBN:
  • 0761900640
  • 0761900659
• LCCN: 95041802
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Thousand Oaks, Calif.
• Pages/Volumes: xxi, 169 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HV11
  • DC20 : 361
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Human services -- Research
  • LCSH : Action research