Action Research; Author: Stringer, Ernest T.; Introduction: Guba, Egon G.; Hardback; Book

Author: Stringer, Ernest T.; Introduction: Guba, Egon G.
Edition #2; Hardback; Book
216 pages
Published: September 1999
Sage Publications Ltd
ISBN: 0761917128

Community-based action research seeks to involve as active participants those who have traditionally been called subjects. This book provides a simple but highly effective model for approaching action research. The revised edition has been broadened in scope to include university and other bureaucratic settings. New end of chapter summaries provide a practical checklist for researchers,and an appendix of electronic resources has been included.Stringer (education and community development, Curtin U. of Technology, Western Australia) describes interactive research tools by which professionals and non-professionals who provide services to people in community, organizational, or institutional contexts can deal effectively with many of the pr