All you need to know about action research

PART ONE: WHAT DO I NEED TO KNOW?; What Is Action Research?; Who Can Do Action Research?; The Underpinning Assumptions of Action Research; Where Did Action Research Come from and Where Is It Now?; PART TWO: WHY DO I NEED TO KNOW?; Why Do Action Research?; Learning to Improve Practice; Contributing to New Theory; Evaluating Your Research; PART THREE: HOW DO I FIND OUT?; Action Planning: Planning and Designing Your Action Research; Engaging with the Literatures; Doing Action Research: Carrying out Your Action Plan; PART FOUR: HOW DO I GENERATE EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT MY CLAIM TO KNOWLEDGE?; Monitoring Practice and Looking for Data; Gathering, Sorting and Storing Data; Turning the Data into Evidence; PART FIVE: HOW DO I TEST AND CRITIQUE MY KNOWLEDGE?; Testing the Validity of Your Claims to Knowledge; Establishing the Legitimacy of Your Claims to Knowledge; Engaging with the Politics of Knowledge; PART SIX: HOW DO I REPRESENT AND DISSEMINATE MY KNOWLEDGE?; Telling Your Research Story; Writing a Workplace Report; Writing a Report for Higher Degree Accreditation; Publishing and Disseminating Your Research; PART SEVEN: HOW DO I SHOW THE SIGNIFICANCE OF MY KNOWLEDGE?; Explaining the Significance of Your Research; Developing New Epistemologies for Workplace Cultures of Enquiry