Action Research: Challenges and Limitations
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Discuss potential challenges or limitations to complete an action research-based project?
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This item identifies strengths and limits of action research in scholarly research.
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Action research is one of the more recent areas of qualitative research, of special importance to educators. Whereas historical educational research was largely based on number crunching (quantitative/statistical analysis), qualitative analysis has emerged as a powerful mode of research in both Education and the Humanities.
The limitations or challenges of action research, a subset of qualitative inquiry, is linked to its inherent nature. In Education, action research frequently embodies the writings of a teacher who writes about a problem ...
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