action research

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• - The paper offers an analysis of how narratives may be reflexively used at different stages of the research process as a tool to access the interpretative frameworks that actors use to construct their accounts of events and to make sense of their action.
  
• - The article outlines several variants of teacher/action research, describing some of the different "tools" and "intentions" of a number of prominent qualitative researchers.
  
• - Community programs, evaluation, action research, asset mapping and assistance with grant writing, culture-based research, program evaluations and community empowerment.
  
• - The article proposes some ways of distinguishing action research and learning processes in research practices, particularly with regard to experiences of reconciliation at an inter-racial level.
  
• - A large collection of resources on action research and related topics, including an on line course.
  
• - Online handbook illustrating action-research concepts, methods and tools, for primary environmental care at the interface of population dynamics and natural resource management for rural communities.