The Future of Action Research in Education

A Canadian Perspective

Kurt W. Clausen, Glenda Black, Kurt W. Clausen, Glenda Black

• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN:
  9780228000976
• eBook ISBN:
  9780228002376
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Copyright
• Contents
• Tables and Figures
• FOREWORD Changing Subjects of Action Research
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 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
• 2 Learning to Talk (Dialogically) at School Creating the Discourse Conditions for Successful Collaborative Action Research
• 3 Looking Back and Looking Forward A Retrospective and Prospective of Action Research and Physical Education in the Twenty-First Century
• 4 Roots and Wings The Teacher Action Research Movement in Manitoba
• PART B The Individual and Action Research
• 5 Teachers as Researchers and Research Users
• 6 Action Research by a Classroom Teacher Professional Development at Its Best
• 7 Grassroots, Pioneers, Indigenization, and More Why Action Research Just Makes Good Sense in Saskatchewan
• 8 Suicide Is (Never) Painless Teachers’ Experiences on the Edge of Life and Death
• PART C Small and Large Group Reporting / Collaborations
• 9 Emotional Labour in Collaborative Action Research
• 10 Teacher Candidates’ Relationships to Knowledge and to Their Practices for Critical and Activist STSE Education
• 11 The Role of Action Research Tools in Facilitating Teacher Professional Learning An Activity Theory Analysis
• 12 Leadership Development through Action Research The Journey of One School District toward Collaboration, Inquiry, and Professional Learning
• 13 Mathematics and Collaborative Action Research Findings and Considerations of Two Large-Scale Canadian Studies
• PART D Participatory Action Research
• 14 Performing Participatory Action Research Stepping Forth out of Leadership
• 15 Ethics and Politics in Participatory Action Research with Youth in Education Contexts
• 16 Challenges to Equity-Based Teacher Education Initiatives Practicum Dilemmas of Teacher Candidates
• 17 PAR at the Crossroads Prospects and Possibilities
• Conclusion
• Contributors
• Index