Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-145) and index.

Preface
Introduction: What is an Action Research Dissertation?
Action Research Traditions and Knowledge Interests
The Multiple Traditions of Action Research
Action Research and Organizational Development/Learning
Participatory Research: The Legacy of Paulo Freire
Action Research in Education
Emerging Approaches to Action Research
The Knowledge interests of Action Research
The Continuum of Positionality in Action Research
Insider: Researcher Studies Own Self/Practice
Insider in Collaboration with Other Insiders
Insider Initiated Studies with Outsiders
PAR: Reciprocal Collaboration (Insider-Outsiders Teams)
PAR: Outsider Initiated Studies with Insiders
Outsider(s) Studies Insider(s)
Quality Criteria for Action Research: An Ongoing Conversation
Delegitimizing Action Research: Opposition in the Academy
Redefining Rigor: Criteria of Quality for Action Research
Are the Findings of Action Research "Generalizable"?
The Politics of Action Research
Designing the Plane While Flying it: Proposing and Doing the Dissertation
The Dissertation Proposal
Where Do Action Research Questions Come from?
Issues of Design and Methodology
The Literature Review: Literature in Dialogue with the Data
Writing the Dissertation
Defending the Dissertation
What does a Participatory Action Research Dissertation look like?
Lynne Mock: Carving a Dissertation Out of a Participatory Action Research Project
Alice McIntyre: Initiating a Participatory Action Research Group
Action Research, Ethics, and the Institutional Review Board
Background to the Creation of the IRB
The Role of the Institutional Review Board
Final Thoughts
References
Appendix A
Index