Key Terms

  • acting, 299
  • action research, 292
  • critical social action, 296
  • deficit orientation, 305
  • focusing, 298
  • interpretive or critical traditions, 296
  • law of the instrument, 311
  • member checking, 316
  • move-testing, 294
  • observing, 299
  • participatory action research, 292
  • planning, 298
  • practical reasoning, 297
  • practitioner action research, 292
  • practitioner research, 298
  • practitioner self-reflection, 298
  • reflecting, 304
  • refocusing, 299
  • revising, 299
  • spiral or spiraled cycle, 301
  • stimulated recall (S-R), 308
  • study validity, 315
  • technical or instrumental transfer, 295
  • traditional researchers, 293
  • triangulation, 316

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