ABSTRACT
Action research is defined as contributing: The ultimate aim of action research is to facilitate changes within systems based upon the knowledge generated through past personal experience and the quantitative method. Since Lewin's seminal work on action research, Action Research and Minority Problems, social scientists have been constantly charged by positivists to defend the relative merits of action research. One key objective of action research is to bring about social change, and in particular, improvements in the outcomes of individual and groups who have been historically disadvantaged on several levels. Action research also sets out to empower those with whom research is conducted; it is not designed to manipulate and control individual human action, or to objectify the human existence. Qualitative, practice-led, action research seeks to effect social change by applying knowledge derived from quantitative methods.
