Practical Action Research for Change [Paperback]

Richard Schmuck demonstrates how educators can use personal reflection and action research to convert frustrations into solvable problems and improved professional practice.Richard Schmuck demonstrates how educators can use personal reflection and action research to convert frustrations into solvable problems and improved professional practice. This book is a modern catalyst for change in higher education. I have made it required reading for doctoral students, administrators, and faculty who must update their pedagogy to raise student learning. This is a wonderful book for learning communities to use to self-evaluate prior to beginning new teaching techniques, and throughout the process.
A comprehensive tool to support learning communities as they endeavor to improve professional practice. Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Author
1. Reflective Professional Practice
Reflections of the Future, Past, and Present
Reflective Educators Seek Self-Knowledge
The Search for Self-Knowledge Leads to Solitary Dialogue
Self-Knowledge and Solitary Dialogue Lead to Professional Maturity
Mature Educators Try to Improve Continually
Using the Tools of Reflection to Move Toward Action Research
Journal-Writing Assignments
2. Educators and Continuous Improvement
Three Faces of Continuous Improvement
Action Research: Two Types of Social Scientists
Differences Between Action Research and Traditional Research
An Example of Action Research
Processes of Continuous Improvement
Journal-Writing Assignments
3. Action Research: Definitions, Models, Steps, and Phases
Contemporary Need for Action Research
Definitions of Action Research