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Petre GEORGIEVSKI
THE
ACTION RESEARCH METHOD
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 devided 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.
Key terms: action research, method,
approach, data gathering procedures, data analyses procedures, triangulation,
complementarity, collective researcher, coding, context, change