This book offers readers an international perspective on the role of action research in professional development at all levels in education. Among many important and timely issues, the international contributors discuss action research in relation to initial teacher training, school inclusion and equal opportunities, underachievement, feminism, political and environmental education, and distance learning. The book affirms the position of action research as a process for transformational practice in professional development contexts. It emphasizes the potential of action research to improve teaching and promote collaborative change. The discourse around student and teacher education validates the place of practical enquiry in teaching and learning and its potential for reconstructing stale and outmoded practices.