Download or read book You and Your Action Research Project written by Jean McNiff and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-09-10 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher's description: This book gives practical guidance on doing an action research project. Written for practitioners across professions who are studying on work-based learning programmes and award-bearing courses, this book is packed full of useful advice and takes the reader through the various stages of a project, including:starting your action research projectmonitoring and documenting the actiontechniques for dealing with the data making claims to knowledge and validating themlegitimating your researchmaking your research publiccreating your living educational theory. The book's practical approach will appeal to practitioners and will encourage them to try out new strategies for improving their work. It will also be essential reading for those resource managers in schools, colleges and higher education institutions who are responsible for providing courses and support. This third edition of the best-selling book has been thoroughly updated and improved by a number of features, with new case studies from a wide range of disciplines, extracts from validated dissertations and theses (with information on how to access more examples via the Internet), points for reflection, checklists of reflective questions, and up-to the-minute information on current debates and ideas.