The mission of the Action Research Across Educational Disciplines
series is to present targeted volumes of action research findings from a
wide variety of educational settings. Specifically, this series aims to
highlight the issues that commonly impact practitioners, counselors,
administrators, and other stakeholders in education.
The rationale for such a series comes from the continually evolving
educational landscape, resulting from changing student demographics and
societal needs. To face the contemporary issues that surface as a result
of this changing educational landscape, educators must prepare for and
lead through the change with an intent on overcoming these issues
through improvements to their daily practice. As many educators are left
without tools or resources to make a stronger impact in their
educational contexts, this series will serve as a mentor text that
provides examples of studies undertaken by practitioners using action
research to improve their practice. As a result, Action Research Across
Educational Disciplines will present the tools and findings associated
with action research to educators across the broad field of K-12
education, and beyond, wishing to improve and transform their practice.
This first volume of the Action Research Across Educational
Disciplines series presents action research findings from a wide
variety of K-12 disciplinary settings. In doing so, the first volume of
this series aims to highlight the issues that commonly impact
practitioners in K-12 STEM, English, Social Science, and even Art
classrooms, and illustrate the solutions proposed in these contexts to
improve both educator practice and student achievement. Through the use
of action research methodologies to address such issues, volume one of
this series offers a resource for improving educational practice across
diverse K-12 contexts.
