Abstract
What is action research? It may puzzle those readers coming from a strictly traditional, quantitative background. Action research is simply research that culminates in action. Its purpose is to raise consciousness, stimulate dialogue, and motivate change. It is a different, even unique form of research, and a descendent of the early twentieth century social surveys of the settlement house movement. It could be called participatory research, the kind in which the people touched by a topic come together to get a sense of the situation, through a research project, to hear one another and decide how to move forward.
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