Action Research for Educational Change

Download or read book Action Research for Educational Change written by John Elliot and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 1991-04-16 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.