ABSTRACT
The term 'action research' refers in general to a style of inquiry which incorporates a set of procedural ideas in adult education and other practices that have become prominent of late. These ideas are advanced in order to overcome some of the difficulties associated with the applicability thesis of the theory-practice relationship on the one hand and the foundational character of educational knowledge on the other. We have examined such difficulties as they relate to discipline-based theory and research in adult education in earlier chapters. Action research also contains a theory of its own practice; it has been legitimated as a practice, for example, in terms of certain theories of educational appropriateness.
