Action Research

List of Proposed Reading (updated on April 3, 2024)

Monographs, Handbooks

Bradbury, Hilary. 2022. How to Do Action Research for Transformation, at a Time of Eco-Social Crisis. Cheltenham, England: Edward Elgar Publishing.

Danny Burns, Jo Howard & Sonia M. Ospina. 2022. The Sage Handbook of Participatory Research and Inquiry. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Burns, Anne, Emily Edwards, Neville John Ellis. 2022. Sustaining Action Research: A Practical Guide for Institutional Engagement. London: Routledge.

Law, Kris M.Y., and Kong Bieng Chuah, eds. 2020. Project Action Learning (PAL) Guidebook: Practical Learning in Organizations. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature.

Barrels, Koen P.R. and Julia M. Wittmayer, eds. 2020. Action Research in Policy Analysis: Critical and Relational Approaches to Sustainability Transitions. London: Routledge.

Stringer, Ernest T. and Alfredo Ortiz Aragón. 2020. Action Research, 5th edition. Thousand Oaks: Sage.

Zuber-Skerritt, Ortrun, and Lesley Wood, eds. 2019. Action Learning and Action Research: Genres and Approaches. Leeds: Emerald Publishing.

Rixon, Andrew, and Cathryn Lloyd, eds. 2019. The Story Cookbook: Practical Recipes for Change. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Duesbery, L. and T. Wyman. 2019. 100 Questions (and Answers) about Action Research. Los Angeles: Sage.

Ortenblad, Anders, eds. 2019. The Oxford Handbook of the Learning Organization. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Bartels, Koen P. R., and Julia M. Wittmayer, eds. 2018. Action Research in Policy Analysis: Critical and Relational Approaches to Sustainability Transitions. Abington, Oxford: Routledge

Mertler, Craig A. 2018. Action Research Communities: Professional Learning, Empowerment, and Improvement through Action Research. Abington, Oxford: Routledge.

Bartunek, Jean M., and Jane McKenzie, eds. 2018. Academic–Practitioner Relationships: Developments, Complexities and Opportunities. Abingdon; New York, Routledge.

McNiff, Jean. 2017. Action Research: All You Need to Know. London: Sage.

Lonnie L. Rowell, Catherine D. Bruce, Joseph M. Shosh and Margaret M. Riel. 2017. The Palgrave International Handbook of Action Research. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Ortrun Zuber-Skerritt, ed. 2017. Conferences as Sites of Learning and Development: Using Participatory Action Learning and Action Research Approaches. London: Routledge.

Szabla, David B., William Pasmore, Mary Barnes, and Asha N. Gipson.2017. The Palgrave handbook of organizational change thinkers. New York: Palgrave Macmillan

McNiff, Jean. 2016. You and Your Action Research Project. New York: Routledge.

Boulden, George P. 2016. Empowering Change Through Facilitation: Become a Facilitator; Help Others to Help Themselves. Lutterworth: ALA International Publishing.

Bradbury, Hilary, ed. 2015. The Sage Handbook of Action Research. Los Angels: Sage. 3^rd edition. [E-book (2008)]

Herr, Kathryn, and Gary L. Anderson. 2015. The Action Research Dissertation: A Guide for Students and Faculty. Los Angels: Sage. 2^nd edition. [E-book, 2005]

Egmose, Jonas. 2015. Action Research for Sustainability: Social Imagination between Citizens and Scientists. Burlington: Ashgate.

Coghlan, David, and Mary Brydon-Miller, eds. 2014. The SAGE Encyclopedia of Action Research. [E-book]

Stringer, Ernest. 2014. Action Research. Thousand Oaks: Sage. Fourth Edition.

Stern, Thomas, et al. 2014. Action Research, Innovation and Change: International Perspectives across Disciplines. London: Routledge.

Beck, Sam, and Carl A. Maida. 2013. Toward Engaged Anthropology. New York; Oxford: Berghahn.

Campbell, Anne, and Susan Groundwater-Smith. 2010. Action Research in Education. 3 volumes. London: SAGE.

Noffke, Susan. E., and Bridget Somekh. eds. 2009. The SAGE Handbook of Educational Action Research. London: SAGE.

Hearn, Greg et al. 2009.Action Research and New Media: Concepts, Methods, and Cases. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press

Craig, Dorothy V. 2009. Action Research Essentials. New York: Wiley.

McIntyre, Alice. 2008. Participatory Action Research. Thousand Oaks: Sage.

Eikeland, Olav. 2008. The Ways of Aristotle: Aristotelian Phronesis, Aristotelian Philosophy of Dialogue, and Action Research (Studies in Vocational and Continuing Education, Vol. 5). Berlin: Peter Lang.

Hale, Charles, eds. 2008. Engaging contradictions: Theory, politics, and methods of activist scholarship. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Greenwood, Davydd, and Morten Levin. 2007. Introduction to Action Research: Social Research for Social Change. Thousand Oaks: Sage. 2nd edition. [E-book]

Kindon, Sara, and Rachel Pain, and Mike Kesby, eds. 2007. Participatory Action Research Approaches and Methods: Connecting People, Participation and Place. London: Routledge.

Campbell, Anne, and Susan Groundwater-Smith. 2007. An Ethical Approach to Practitioner Research: Dealing with issues and Dilemmas in Action Research. London: Routledge.

Bryan,t Carol A. et al. 2006. Community-Based Prevention Marketing: Organizing a Community for Health Behavior Intervention. Health Promotion Practice 8(2): 154-163.

Minkler, M. and N. Wallerstein, eds. 2003. Community-based Participatory Research for Health. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. [E-book]

Coghlan, David and Teresa Brannick. 2001. Doing Action Research in Your Own Organization. Lonodn: Sage.

Flyvbjerg, Bent. 2001. Making Social Science Matter: Why Social Inquiry Fails and How it Can Succeed Again. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Sankaran, Shankar, et al., eds. 2001. Action Learning and Action Research. Lismore: Southern Cross University Press.

Romm, Norma R. A. 2001. Accountability in Social Research: Issues and Debates. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.

Midgley, Gerald. 2000. Systemic Intervention: Philosophy, Methodology and Practice. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.

Angwin, Jennifer, ed. 1998. The Essence of Action Research: Proceedings from the ALRNNV Seminar. Geelong: Deaking University Centre for Education and Change.

Argyris, Chris, and Donald A. Schon. 1996. Organizational Learning II. Reading: Addison-Wesley.

Zuber-Skerritt, Ortrun, ed. 1996. New Directions in Action Research. London: The Falmer Press.

Pinchen, Suzanne, and Ron Passfield. 1995. Moving On: Creative Applications of Action Learning and Action Research. Brisbane: Action Learning and Action Research Association Process Management.

Selener, Julio Daniel. 1992. Participatory Action Research and Social Change: Approaches and Critique. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

Greenwood, Davydd, and J. L. Gonzalez. 1992. Industrial Democracy as Process: Participatory Action Research in the Fagor Cooperative Group of Mondragon. Assen-Maastricht, Netherlands: Van Gorcum.

Elliott, John. 1991. Action Research for Educational Change. Milton Keynes: Open University Press.

Fals-Borda, Orlando, and Mohammad Anisur Rahman, eds. 1991. Action and Knowledge: Breaking the Monopoly with Participatory Action Research. New York: The Apex Press.

Whyte, William F., ed. 1991. Participatory Action Research. Newbury Park: Sage. [E-book]

McTaggart, Robin. 1991. Action Research: A Short Modern History. Geelong: Deaking University.

Carr, Wilfred, and Stephen Kemmis. 1986. Becoming Critical: Education, Knowledge and Action Research. Victoria, Australia: Deakin University Press.

Argyris, Chris and Robert W. Putnam, and Diana McLain Smith. 1985. Action Science：Concepts, Methods, and Skulls for Research and Intervvention. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Wadsworth, Yoland. 1984. Do It Yourself Social Research. Crows Nest: Allen & Unwin

Kemmis, Stephen, and Robin McTaggart, eds. 1981. The Action Research Planner. Xxx: Deakin University Press.

Argyris, Chris, and Donald Schon. 1974. Theory in practice: Increasing professional effectiveness. San Francisco: Jossye-Bass.

Argyris, Chris, and Donald Schon. 1978. Organizational Learning: A Theory of Action Perspective. Reading: Addison-Wesley.

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