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The Future of Action Research in EducationA Canadian Perspective |
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A provocative analysis of the legacy and direction of action research in Canada and beyond.
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.
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.
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352 Pages, 6 x 9
2 photos
ISBN 9780228000983
August 2020
Formats: Paperback, eBook
"The Future of Action Research in Education brings together an impressive array of diverse action research scholars who ably map out the field from a Canadian context, and do so while looking to the future." Marc Spooner, University of Regina
Kurt W. Clausen is professor of education at Nipissing University and the editor in chief of the Canadian Journal of Action Research.
Glenda L. Black is associate professor of education at Nipissing University and Vice-President of the Canadian Association of Action Research in Education.
Glenda L. Black is associate professor of education at Nipissing University and Vice-President of the Canadian Association of Action Research in Education.
Tables and Figures ix
Foreword: Changing Subjects of Action Research xi
Dennis Sumara
Acknowledgments xvii
Introduction 3
Kurt W. Clausen and Glenda L. Black
PART A THE HISTORICAL ROOTS OF ACTION RESEARCH IN CANADA
1 The Uncertain World of Adult Literacy: Reflections on Twenty-Five Years of Building Action Research Networks in North America 16
B. Allan Quigley
2 Learning to Talk (Dialogically) at School: Creating the Discourse
Conditions for Successful Collaborative Action Research 33
Heather Lotherington
3 Looking Back and Looking Forward: A Retrospective and Prospective of Action Research and Physical Education in the Twenty-First Century 48
Daniel B. Robinson
4 Roots and Wings: The Teacher Action Research Movement in Manitoba 77
Francine Morin
PART B THE INDIVIDUAL AND ACTION RESEARCH
5 Teachers as Researchers and Research Users
Daniel A. Laitsch 99
6 Action Research by a Classroom Teacher: Professional Development at Its Best 112
Zoe Donoahue
7 Grassroots, Pioneers, Indigenization, and More: Why Action Research Just Makes Good Sense in Saskatchewan 123
Sheena Koops
8 Suicide Is (Never) Painless: Teachers’ Experiences on the Edge of Life and Death 141
Peter Gouzouasis and Anita Prest
PART C SMALL AND LARGE GROUP REPORTING/COLLABORATIONS
9 Emotional Labour in Collaborative Action Research: The Power of Feeling in Critical Language Education 158
Sunny Man Chu Lau
10 Teacher Candidates’ Relationships to Knowledge and to Their Practices for Critical and Activist stse Education 171
Sarah El Halwany, Majd Zouda, Chantal Pouliot, and Larry Bencze
11 The Role of Action Research Tools in Facilitating Teacher Professional Learning: An Activity Theory Analysis 194
Karen Goodnough
12 Leadership Development through Action Research: The Journey of One School District toward Collaboration, Inquiry, and Professional Learning 211
Pamela Adams
13 Mathematics and Collaborative Action Research: Findings and Considerations of Two Large-Scale Canadian Studies 232
Cathy Bruce and Tara C. Flynn
PART D PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH
14 Performing Participatory Action Research: Stepping Forth out of Leadership 253
Lynn Fels
15 Ethics and Politics in Participatory Action Research with Youth in Education Contexts 271
Linda Eyre
16 Challenges to Equity-Based Teacher Education Initiatives: Practicum Dilemmas of Teacher Candidates 288
Manu Sharma
17 par at the Crossroads: Prospects and Possibilities 305
Steven Jordan
Conclusion 319
Kurt W. Clausen and Glenda L. Black
Contributors 323
Index 335
Foreword: Changing Subjects of Action Research xi
Dennis Sumara
Acknowledgments xvii
Introduction 3
Kurt W. Clausen and Glenda L. Black
PART A THE HISTORICAL ROOTS OF ACTION RESEARCH IN CANADA
1 The Uncertain World of Adult Literacy: Reflections on Twenty-Five Years of Building Action Research Networks in North America 16
B. Allan Quigley
2 Learning to Talk (Dialogically) at School: Creating the Discourse
Conditions for Successful Collaborative Action Research 33
Heather Lotherington
3 Looking Back and Looking Forward: A Retrospective and Prospective of Action Research and Physical Education in the Twenty-First Century 48
Daniel B. Robinson
4 Roots and Wings: The Teacher Action Research Movement in Manitoba 77
Francine Morin
PART B THE INDIVIDUAL AND ACTION RESEARCH
5 Teachers as Researchers and Research Users
Daniel A. Laitsch 99
6 Action Research by a Classroom Teacher: Professional Development at Its Best 112
Zoe Donoahue
7 Grassroots, Pioneers, Indigenization, and More: Why Action Research Just Makes Good Sense in Saskatchewan 123
Sheena Koops
8 Suicide Is (Never) Painless: Teachers’ Experiences on the Edge of Life and Death 141
Peter Gouzouasis and Anita Prest
PART C SMALL AND LARGE GROUP REPORTING/COLLABORATIONS
9 Emotional Labour in Collaborative Action Research: The Power of Feeling in Critical Language Education 158
Sunny Man Chu Lau
10 Teacher Candidates’ Relationships to Knowledge and to Their Practices for Critical and Activist stse Education 171
Sarah El Halwany, Majd Zouda, Chantal Pouliot, and Larry Bencze
11 The Role of Action Research Tools in Facilitating Teacher Professional Learning: An Activity Theory Analysis 194
Karen Goodnough
12 Leadership Development through Action Research: The Journey of One School District toward Collaboration, Inquiry, and Professional Learning 211
Pamela Adams
13 Mathematics and Collaborative Action Research: Findings and Considerations of Two Large-Scale Canadian Studies 232
Cathy Bruce and Tara C. Flynn
PART D PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH
14 Performing Participatory Action Research: Stepping Forth out of Leadership 253
Lynn Fels
15 Ethics and Politics in Participatory Action Research with Youth in Education Contexts 271
Linda Eyre
16 Challenges to Equity-Based Teacher Education Initiatives: Practicum Dilemmas of Teacher Candidates 288
Manu Sharma
17 par at the Crossroads: Prospects and Possibilities 305
Steven Jordan
Conclusion 319
Kurt W. Clausen and Glenda L. Black
Contributors 323
Index 335
