Action Research

What is the meaning of Action Research?

A definition of Action Research is provided here: Action research involves identifying a question or problem and then collecting and analyzing relevant data. It is called action research because participants are studying an aspect of their own work and they intend to use the results themselves.

Action Research

See Also

• Governance
• Bottom-Up Approach
• Deliberative Democracy
• Dialogic Public Policy
• Interpretive Theory
• Local
  Knowledge
• Participatory Democracy

Further Reading

• Greenwood, D. J., & Levin, M. (1998). Introduction to action
  research: Social research for social change. Thousand
  Oaks, CA: Sage.
  Reason, P., & Bradbury, H. (Eds.). (2001). Handbook of
  action research: Participative inquiry and practice.
  London: Sage Ltd.
  Torbert, W. R. (2004). Action inquiry: The secret of
  timely and transforming leadership. San Francisco:
  Berrett-Koehler.
• Action Research in the Encyclopedia of Governance, Mark Bevir – University of California, Berkeley, USA, 2007, SAGE Publications