Resources

Case Study

Lawrence Stenhouse: The Study of Samples and the Study of Cases:

ActionResearchCanada/documents/Stenhouse,_1979.pdf

George Vaillant- What Makes Us Happy?

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/06/what-makes-us-happy/7439/

Action Research

Jack Whitehead

AR Planner:

www.actionresearch.net/writings/jack/arplanner.htm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Whitehead, J. (2009) How Do I Influence the Generation of Living Educational Theories for Personal and Social Accountability in Improving Practice? Using a Living Theory Methodology in Improving Educational Practice, in Tidwell, Deborah L.; Heston, Melissa L.; Fitzgerald, Linda M. (Eds.) (2009) Research Methods for the Self-study of Practice, Dorecht; Springer:

ejolts.net/node/80

Justifying the use of a living educational theory in the creation of your living educational theory. Responding to Cresswell.

ActionResearchCanada/documents/Jack%20Whitehead/Cresswellqualitativemethods-1.pdf

Joan Walton: A Living Theory Approach to Developing My Teaching

ActionResearchCanada/documents/Action%20Research/Joan%20WaltonCertPG%20Ass%202%20v4.doc

Judy Marshall: Living Life as Inquiry

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ethnography

Bal Chandra Luitel and Peter Taylor - Globalization, ecological consciousness and curriculum as montage: A Vision for culturally contextualized mathematics education

ActionResearchCanada/documents/Peter%20Taylor/SP_Luitel&Taylor.pdf

Validity and Inventiveness

Marion Dadds:

Empathetic Validity

 Grounded Theory

www.scu.edu.au/schools/gcm/ar/arp/grounded.html

Experimental and Co-relational Designs

ActionResearchCanada/documents/PresentationOverviewOfResearchMethods.ppt

Narrative

ActionResearchCanada/documents/jeanstory.pdf

 Mental Models

ActionResearchCanada/documents/Peter%20Senge/Peter%20Senge%20on%20Mental%20Models.doc

Survey Research

School Climate Survey

ActionResearchCanada/documents/SchoolClimateSummaryGr3-5_02022010(1)-1.xls

ActionResearchCanada/documents/SchoolClimateSummaryGr6-8_02022010(1)-1.xls

ActionResearchCanada/documents/Survey%20Research/Guiding%20Questions-survery%20analysis.doc

Self Study

Bullough Jr., R. & Pinnegar, S. (2001) Guidelines for Quality in Autobiographical Forms of Self Study Research

ActionResearchCanada/documents/Self%20Study/pinbulselfstudy.pdf

Teaching Teachers to Teach for Critical Thinking:
Enacting a Pedagogy of Teacher Education

Nathan D. Brubaker
James Madison University
brubaknd@jmu.edu

Paper Presented at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the
American Educational Research Association
New Orleans, Louisiana

ActionResearchCanada/documents/Self%20Study/pinbulselfstudy.pdf

 Professional Development-Teacher Research

Katherine Herr and Gary Anderson:

Teacher Research and Learning Communities: Failure to Theorize Power Relations.

ActionResearchCanada/documents/Professional%20Development/AndersonHerrLanguageArts.pdf

Bluewater Action Research Planner

documents/action research/arplannerbluewater.doc