Faculty Development - (Contemporary Perspectives Through Action Research Across Educational Disciplines) by Sara B Ewell & Joan Giblin & Joe McNabb

About the Book

This book highlights how Action Research empowers higher education administrators to address challenges in colleges and universities. It focuses on impacting college students, faculty, and curriculum. Action Research is presented as a powerful methodology for solving complex organizational issues.

Book Synopsis

Action Research can empower all administrators in higher education to engage more effectively in resolving challenges in colleges and universities. Scholar-practitioners are particularly well poised to impact three defined areas of practice: college students, faculty, and curriculum, teaching and learning.

Action Research is a powerful, localized methodology for impacting difficult and complex issues embedded in organizations. Higher education administrators regularly confront these types of difficult issues and hold the responsibility to solve these problems.