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Foreword by Susan Lytle and Marilyn Cochran-Smith
Contributors include academics, teachers, and administrators and staff developers. Broad in scope, the book covers pre- as well as inservice education, action research in the field, and issues of facilitation and support.
The overall framework and content of the book emphasize the ways in which educational action research is more than a set of procedures for the study of local issues ending in a "finished product." Rather, it is an overall approach that recognizes the need for looking at classroom practices and institutional structures with an eye toward making schooling a more caring and just process for those who work in and those who are served by it. The text is organized into three parts: Action Research in Teacher Education • Action Research in Schools • Supporting Action Research.
