THE ACTION RESEARCH METHOD

• Main Author: Petre GEORGIEVSKI
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Faculty of Philosophy, Institute of Special Education and Rehabilitation 1999-05-01
• Series: Journal of Special Education and Rehabilitation
• Subjects: action research; method; approach; data gathering procedures; data analyses procedures; triangulation; complementarity; collective researcher; coding; context; change
• Online Access: http://jser.fzf.ukim.edu.mk/pdf/1999-12/0018-0040.pdf

The effort in this work to elaborate an action research method as a central research problem considering the recent contemporary sociological and educa­tional literature. The author begins with the statement that the method is a complex notion, composed of three main components: approach to the research problem, data gathering procedures and data analysis procedures. This point of view is further applied and elaborated in the author's text, emphasizing the action research characteristics: interruption with the positive tradition in social research and the divided of the objective and subjective, application of the qualitative data. The sub­stantial difference between the action research in regard with the other kinds of research, is not only in getting to new knowledge's, but also in problem solving or a change in the situation in a concrete social context.