Action Research Reading
List, Fall 2002
Allan Feldman
School of Education
University of Massachusetts
Calhoun, E. (1994). Action
research: Three approaches. Educational leadership, October, 62-65. Calhoun, E. (1994). How
to use action research in the self-renewing school. Alexandria, VA: Association for
Supervision and Curriculum Development.
Chapter 5. Phase 2: Collecting data (pp. 50-70)
Chapter 6. Phase 3: Organizing data (pp. 71-79)
Carr, W. and Kemmis, S. (1988). Becoming critical: Education, knowledge and
action research.
Philadelphia: Falmer Press.
Chapter 5: A critical approach to theory and practice , 129-154.
Cochran-Smith, M. and Lytle, S. (1993). Inside/Outside: Teacher research and
knowledge. NY: Teachers
College Press.
Chapter 1: Research on teaching and teacher research: The issues that divide,
5-22.
Chapter 2: Learning from teacher research: A working typology, 23-40.
Eisner, E. (1981). On the differences between scientific and artistic
approaches to qualitative research. Educational researcher, 10(4), 5-9.
Hollingsworth, S. (1994). Teacher research and urban literacy: Lessons and
conversations in a feminist key.
NY: Teachers College Press.
Ch. 1: Sustained conversation, 3-16.
Ch 2: Rewriting the conversation and curriculum of literacy education, 17-33.
Holly, M. (1989). Reflective writing and the spirit of inquiry. Cambridge
journal of education, 19(1),
pp. 71-80.
Lather, P.
(1986). Research as praxis. Harvard educational review, 56(3), 257-277.
Noffke, S. (1997). Professional, personal, and political dimensions of action
research. Review of research in education, 22, 305-343.
Phillips, D. (1987). Validity in qualitative research: Why the worry about
warrant will not wane. Education and urban society, 20(1), 9-24.
Schön, D. (1983). The reflective practitioner: How professional think in
action. New York: Basic
Books. Ch. 2, pp. 21-69.
Schwab, J.
(1978). The practical: A language for curriculum. In I. Westbury and N. Wlkof
(Eds.), Science, curriulum, and liberal education, 287-321. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press.
Stenhouse, L. (1981). What counts as research? British journal of
educational studies, 29(2), 103-114.
Tremmel, R. (1993). Zen and the art of reflective practice in teacher
education. Harvard educational review, 63(4), 437-458.
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