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| Becoming a Teacher Through Action Research: Process, Context, and Self-Study (2nd Ed.) | Donna Phillips & Kevin Carr | 2010 | www.routledge.com | Designed for pre-service teachers |
| Conducting Research: Guide to Completing a Major Project in Educational Settings | Daniel J. Boudah | 2010 | www.sagepub.com | |
| Action Research in Education: Three-Volume Set | Anne Campbell and Susan Groundwater-Smith (eds.) | 2010 | www.sagepub.com | |
| Self-Study Teacher Research: Improving Your Practice Through Collaborative Inquiry | Anastasia P. Samaras | 2010 | www.sagepub.com | |
| Action Research for Professional Development: Concise advice for new (and experienced) action researchers | Jean McNiff | 2010 | http://www.september-books.com | A really accessible text with lots of examples, exercises and advice |
| The SAGE Handbook of Educational Action Research | Susan Noffke and Bridget Somekh (eds.) | 2009 | www.sagepub.com | |
| Doing and Writing Action Research | Jean McNiff and Jack Whitehead | 2009 | www.sagepub.com | |
| Digital Habitats; stewarding technology for communities | Etienne Wenger, Nancy White, & John David Smith | 2009 | Amazon Link | This book does not talk about action research explicitly, but guides people who want to effect change in their workplace communities using technology. |
| Doing Action Research in Your Own Organization, Third Edition | David Coghlan and Teresa Brannick | 2009 | www.sagepub.com | |
| Action Research for Improving Educational Practice, Second Edition: A Step-by-Step Guide | Valsa Koshy | 2009 | www.sagepub.com | |
| Action Research: Teachers as Researchers in the Classroom, Second Edition | Craig A. Mertler | 2008 | www.sagepub.com | |
| Action Research in the Classroom | Vivienne Baumfield, Elaine Hall and Kate Wall | 2008 | www.sagepub.com | |
| Teacher Action Research: Building Knowledge Democracies | Gerald J. Pine | 2008 | www.sagepub.com | |
| The SAGE Handbook of Action Research, Second Edition: Participative Inquiry and Practice | Peter Reason and Hilary Bradbury (eds.) | 2008 | www.sagepub.com | |
| Participatory Action Research | Alice McIntyre | 2007 | www.sagepub.com | |
| Participatory Action Research for Educational Leadership: Using Data-Driven Decision Making to Improve Schools | E. Alana James, Margaret T. Milenkiewicz and Alan Bucknam | 2007 | www.sagepub.com | |
| Doing Action Research: A Guide for School Support Staff | Claire Taylor, Min Wilkie and Judith Baser | 2007 | www.sagepub.com | |
| Action Research: Living Theory | Jack Whitehead and Jean McNiff | 2006 | www.sagepub.com | |
| The Action Research Dissertation: A Guide for Students and Faculty | Kathryn Herr and Gary L. Anderson | 2005 | www.sagepub.com | |
| All You Need To Know About Action Research | Jean McNiff and Jack Whitehead | 2005 | www.sagepub.com | This book is a great first book for people new to action research --mriel |
| Fundamentals of Action Research, Four-Volume Set | Bill Cooke and Julie Wolfram Cox | 2004 | www.sagepub.com | |
| Surpassing Ourselves: An Inquiry Into the Nature and Implications of Expertise: | Carl Bereiter & Marlene Scardamalia | 1993 | Amazon Link | Not explicitly about action research but rather describes progressive problem solving as the way to develop expertise. |
I use the two McNiff and Whitehead books and Coghlan and Brannick to teach action research. All three books are excellent and they work well as a set. What do you use?