The nature of action research
In order to undertake an action research project within
educational settings, we need to begin by giving some
thought to the question: 'What is action research?' This,
in turn, raises two further questions: 'What is research?'
and 'What is educational research?' How are we to
respond to these questions? One effective way of doing so
is to place them in order, beginning with the most
general, and then to do some reading and thinking about
each in turn