Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Emancipatory Character of Action Research, Its History and the Present State of the Art / Ben W.M. Boog -- Deploying Qualitative Methods for Critical Social Purposes / Gaile Canella and Yvonne Lincoln -- The Utility of Educational Action Research for Emancipatory Change / Kimberley Kinsler -- Uses of Data in Action Research / Marie Brennan and Susan Noffke -- Critical Advocacy Research : An Approach Whose Time Has Come / Carolyn M. Shields -- Limits to Knowledge and Being Human : What Is "Critical" in Critical Social Research and Theory? / Phil Francis Carspecken -- Contextualizing Critical Action Research : Lessons from Urban Educators / Jennifer Esposito and Venus Evans-Winters -- From Disillusionment to Hope: Bicultural Practitioner Research / Eduardo Lopez -- Teaching Beyond the Skill and Drill : Re-Imagining Curriculum and Learning in a High Stakes Testing Environment / Jennifer Zapata -- Big History, Little World : The Politics of Social Justice Curriculum in Advanced Placement World History / Rachel Klimke -- Challenging Standardized Curriculum : Recognizing, Critiquing, and Attempting to Transform the Learning Process / Nien N. Tran -- Perceptions of Health Education among Adolescents in an Urban School : A Project to Promote Empowerment and Health Literacy in an Underserved Community / Inga Wilder -- Doing Research with Young People : Participatory Research and the Rituals of Collective Work / Caitlin Cahill -- Circulating Critical Research : Reflections on Performance and Moving Inquiry into Action / Madeline Fox and Michele Fine -- In Search of Critical Knowledge : Tracing Inheritance in the Landscape of Incarceration / Carolina Muñoz Proto -- Split Scenes, Converging Visions : The Ethical Terrains Where PAR and Borderlands Scholarship Meet / Jennifer Ayala -- From Critical Research Practice to Critical Research Reporting / A Suresh Canagarajah -- Recipe or Performing Art? : Challenging Conventions for Writing Action Research Theses / Kath Fisher and Renata Phelps -- Narrative study in the classroom : knowing what was, what is, and what could be / Jessica Blanchard -- From Deficit to Abundance in the Classroom, or, What I Learned from Jayda / Lisa Sibbett -- Reverberating the Action Research Text / Rebecca Luce-Kapler -- Sojourning : Locating Ourselves in the Landscape / Antoinette Olberg, Joy Collins, Colleen Ferguson, David Freeman, Rita Levitz, Mary Lou McCaskell and Brigid Walters -- Wounded in the Field of Inquiry : Vulnerability in Critical Research / Edward J. Brantmeier -- Disruptions in the Field : An Academic's Lived Practice with Classroom Teachers / Janet L. Miller -- Who says we can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear? : Transforming market based programs into critical education -- Pamela Konkol, Simeon Stumme and Isabel Nuñez -- Forming New Agreements : A Brief Critical Exploration of the Pedagogical Formations of Predominantly White, Pre-Service Teachers in an Urban Context / Jeanine M. Staples, Talia Carroll, Donna Marie Cole-Mallot, Jennifer Myler, Corey Simmons, Julie Schappe, and Theresa Adkins -- A Tale of Three Discourses: Doing Action Research in a Research Methods Class / Stephen R. Couch.