ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines how an educational action research project might be planned. It explains practicalities such as finding a research question, the importance of critical friends, the role of values in educational action research, ethical permissions, establishing standards of judgement, thinking about data collection and drawing up a timeline. It provides the reader with some examples from teachers’ research accounts of how they planned their educational action research projects. The chapter concludes with an in-depth exploration of the role of values and their articulation in educational action research projects.
