Writing and Doing Action Research - Jean Mcniff

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Résumé :
Introduction
What is written in an action research text?
What do you need to know about action research in order to write it?
What do you need to know to write action research? Why do you need to know it?
What do you write in an action research text?
What is the form of an action research text?
Becoming a writer: researching writing practices
Becoming a writer
Writing a good quality text
Planning for the production of texts
Writing an action research text
Writing proposals
Masters and doctoral dissertations and theses
How will the quality of your action research dissertation/thesis be judged?
Writing for publication
Writing for academic and professional journals
Writing your first academic book
The significance of your text
The significance of your action research text
Some implications - where next?
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Biographie:

Jean McNiff is Professor of Educational Research at York St John University, UK. She is also a Visiting Professor at UiT the Arctic University of Norway, and at the Beijing Normal University and Ningxia Teachers' University, People's Republic of China.

Jean took early retirement from her position as deputy head teacher of a large secondary school in Dorset, UK. She went into business for herself, and developed her writing. Her textbooks on action research and professional education are now used internationally on workplace-based professional education courses and on higher degree courses. Jean provides interdisciplinary consultancy work to institutions around the world where she gives lectures and conducts workshops on planning, doing and writing action research.

Jean aims to contribute to personal and social betterment through educational research. She encourages everyone to make their stories public in the form of their personal and collaborative theories of practice...

Sommaire:
The chapters in this book develop a working framework and contain worked examples and exercises to make sure that readers get the best results from their research and are fully versed in all the practical aspects of doing action research....