Action research for curriculum change and professional development

"What should curriculum research look like and how should it be enacted if it is to be educational? A key feature sustaining the interest of curriculum leaders in action research has been its demonstrated potential for improving the justice, reasonableness and humanity of the curriculum...Insight into the nature of action research, and its value in learning about curriculum by changing it, is achieved by examining its historical development along with its key attributes."--p. 3