RESOURCES

Included here are just a few entry points for you to explore the insights, experiences, and information from a wider world of research, writing, and engagement in change. More conventional texts that lay out the steps, decisions, and theories involved in research in your field can be readily found through an internet search of syllabi for research courses.

Updates and Supplements

Graduate courses based around the

• Phases of Research and Engagement: syllabus, http://www.faculty.umb.edu/pjt/692.html; examples of student assignments, http://www.faculty.umb.edu/pjt/692Examples.html

• Cycles and Epicycles of Action Research: syllabus, http://www.faculty.umb.edu/pjt/693.html; examples of student assignments, http://www.faculty.umb.edu/pjt/693examples.html

• Creative Habits for Synthesis of Theory and Practice: syllabus, http://www.faculty.umb.edu/pjt/694.html

Online forum for to engage the authors and each other in ongoing conversation and in sharing resources, struggles, and accomplishments, http://cctnetwork.ning.com/forum/topics/taking-yourself-seriously

Probe-Create Change-Reflect blog, http://pcrcr.wordpress.com

Wiki version of book, with updated components, http://cct.wikispaces.umb.edu/TYS

Action Research

Calhoun, E. F. (1994). How to Use Action Research in the Self-Renewing School. Alexandria, VA: ASCD.

Craig, D. V. (2009). Action Research Essentials. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Highlander Research and Education Center, publications http://www.highlandercenter.org/r-bookstore.asp

Horton, M. and B. Moyers (1983). "The adventures of a radical hillbilly: An interview with Myles Horton." Appalachian Journal 9(4): 248-285. (See also Video, Public Broadcasting System, 1981)

Schmuck, R. (either 1997 or 2006). Practical Action Research for Change. Arlington Heights, IL: Skylight.

See also the references in Part IV.B on Action Research and Participation.

Facilitation

Holman, P. and T. Devane, Eds. (1999). The Change Handbook: Group Methods for Shaping the Future. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler.

Institute of Cultural Affairs, Canada, publications http://ica-associates.ca/Template/Bookstore/index.cfm

Scharmer, O. (2009). Theory U: Leading from the Future as It Emerges. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers.

Schuman, S., Ed. (2006). Creating a Culture of Collaboration: The International Association of Facilitators Handbook. San Francisco, Jossey-Bass.

Senge, P., A. Kleiner, C. Roberts, R. Ross, B. Smith (1994). The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook. New York: Currency.

Stanfield, R. B., Ed. (1997). The Art of Focused Conversation. Toronto: Canadian Institute of Cultural Affairs.

Stanfield, R. B. (2002). The Workshop Book: From Individual Creativity to Group Action. Toronto: Canadian Institute of Cultural Affairs. (See useful excerpts on googlebooks.)

Research

CCT Program (2010). Research and study competencies. http://www.cct.umb.edu/competencies.html (viewed 1 Dec 2011)

Denzin, N. K. and Y. S. Lincoln, Eds. (2005). The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Schloss, P. J. and M. A. Smith (1999). Conducting Research. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall.

Writing

Boice, R. (1990). Professors as Writers: A Self-Help Guide to Productive Writing. Stillwater, OK: New Forums Press.

Daniel, D., C. Fauske, P. Galeno and D. Mael (2001). Take Charge of Your Writing: Discovering Writing Through Self-Assessment. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Elbow, P. (1981). Writing with Power. New York: Oxford University Press.

Elbow, P. and P. Belanoff (2000). Summary of kinds of responses. In Sharing and Responding. Boston: McGraw-Hill: 7ff
(summary available at http://www.faculty.umb.edu/pjt/elbowresponses.html; viewed 9 July 2010)

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