Action Research

PART ONE: BACKGROUNDS AND CONTEXTS/Background to Our Research: Reasons and Purposes/What Are Our Concerns?/Contexts of Our Research/Why Are We Concerned?/Looking for Data/What Experiences Can We Describe to Show Why We Are Concerned?/PART TWO: GATHERING DATA AND GENERATING EVIDENCE/Monitoring Practice and Gathering Data/What Kind of Data Will We Gather to Show the Situation as It Unfolds/Interpreting Data and Generating Evidence in Relation to Living Critical Standards of Judgement/How Do We Explain Our Educational Influences in Learning?/PART THREE: ESTABLISHING VALIDITY AND LEGITIMACY/Validity Legitimacy and Moral Authority/How Do We Show that Any Conclusions We Come To Are Reasonably Fair and Accurate?/The Potential Significance of Our Research/How Do We Show the Potential Significance of Our Research?/PART FOUR: IMPLICATIONS EVALUATIONS AND DISSEMINATION/Case Studies/How Do We Show the Implications of Our Research?/Evaluating the Account of Our Research/How Do We Evaluate the Evidence-Based Account of Our Learning?/PART FIVE: TESTING OUR CLAIMS TO EDUCATIONAL KNOWLEDGE/Into New Research/How Do We Modify Our Concerns Ideas and Practices in the Light of Our Evaluations?