Action Research for Educational Change

Action Research for Educational Change PDF Author: John Elliot
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
ISBN: 0335231497
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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Book Description
This book is concerned with action research as a form of teacher professional development. In it, John Elliot traces the historical emergence and current significance of action research in schools. He examines action research as a "cultural innovation" with transformative possibilities for both the professional culture of teachers and teacher educators in academia and explores how action research can be a form of creative resistance to the technical rationality underpinning government policy. He explains the role of action research in the specific contexts of the national curriculum, teacher appraisal and competence-based teacher training.