Action Research: Bridging Service and Research

Action research is an approach to knowledge generation that can strengthen communities and institutions and that is ideally suited to the advancement of academically-based service-learning. We briefly set out the history and goals of this approach to service-learning, define some current challenges, provide examples from three action research projects that respond to those challenges, and identify a sample of questions for research about this method of service-learning. This article was published in the Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, Special Issue Fall 2000, pages 113-118.