All of the above examples (with the exception of MACOS) depict educational
action research projects that were designed and operated in the 1970s within the
context of school-based curriculum reforms. The question that now arises is whether
there are contemporary examples of educational action research that, in the words of
Carr, appear to be successfully resisting the assimilation of praxis to techne in sustainable
ways and opening up spaces for the quest for virtue in teaching. If so,
which aspects do they share in common with the examples I selected as paradigmatic,
and have not, in the words of Carr, ‘been filled with a research methodology’
that makes it impossible for them to defend the integrity of praxis? With this possibility
in mind I looked at accounts of educational action research published in six
issues of Educational Action Research during 2013/14. What follows is a summary
of my somewhat impressionistic reading, which is certainly open to challenge and
discussion from readers.