Book Reviews: Doing Action Research in Early Childhood Studies: A Step by Step Guide,Connecting with Children: Developing Working Relationships

Bogdan R.C. & Biklen S.K. (1998) Qualitative Research in Education: An introduction to theory and methods, 3rd edn. Needham Heights: Allyn & Bacon.

Carr W. & Kemmis S. (2005) Staying Critical, Educational Action Research, 13(3), 347–357. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09650790500200316

Creswell J.W. (2005) Education Research: Planning, conducting, and evaluating quantitative and qualitative research, 2nd edn. Upper Saddle River: Pearson Education.

Dick B. (2000) A Beginner's Guide to Action Research. http://www.uq.net.au/action_research/arp/guide.html

Heron J. & Reason P. (2006) The Practice of Co-operative Inquiry: Research ‘with’ rather than ‘on’ people, in Reason P. & Bradbury H. (Eds) A Handbook of Action Research. London: Sage.

Kemmis S. (2006) Participatory Action Research and the Public Sphere, Educational Action Research, 14(4), 459–476. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09650790600975593

Kemmis S. & McTaggart R. (2005) Participatory Action Research: Communicative action and the public sphere, in Denzin N. & Lincoln Y. (Eds) Handbook of Qualitative Research, 3rd edn, 559–603. Thousand Oaks: Sage.

Reason P. & Bradbury H. (2006) Introduction: Inquiry and participation in search of a world worthy of human inspiration, in Reason P. & Bradbury H. (Eds) A Handbook of Action Research. London: Sage.

Stringer E.T. (2004) Action Research in Education. Upper Saddle River: Pearson Education.

Whitehead J. & McNiff J. (2006) Action Research: A living theory. London: Sage.

Heyning K.E. (2001) Teacher Education Reform in the Shadow of State-University links: The cultural politics of texts, in Popkewitz T.S. Franklin B.M. & Pereyra M.A. (Eds) Cultural History and Education: Critical essays on knowledge and schooling, 289–312. New York: Routledge.

Hickling-Hudson A. (2004) Educating Teachers for Cultural Diversity and Social Justice, in Hernes G. & Martin M. (Eds) Planning for Diversity: Education in multi-ethnic and multicultural societies, 270–307. Paris: International Institute for Educational Planning.

Nolan A. (2008) Encouraging the Reflection Process in Undergraduate Teachers Using Guided Reflection, Australian Journal of Early Childhood, 33(1), 31–36.

Osgood J. (2006) Deconstructing Professionalism in Early Childhood Education: Resisting the regulatory gaze, Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 7(1), 5–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.2304/ciec.2006.7.1.5