Action research is not a ‘method’ or a ‘procedure’ for research but a series of commitments to observe and problematize through practice a series of principles for conducting social enquiry’. McNiff (1993) sets out familiar action research model: identifying a problem, devising, implementing and evaluating a solution and modifying practice. The implementation and evaluation of the solution should be a collaborative effort involving all active agents involved in the project (teachers/students/managers etc)
Characteristically Action research is:
- Democratic, enabling the participation of all people.
- Equitable, acknowledging people’s equality of worth.
- Liberating, providing freedom from oppressive, debilitating conditions.
- Life enhancing, enabling the expression of people’s full human potential.
(Stringer 1999: 9-10)
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