%0 Journal Article %T THE ACTION RESEARCH METHOD %A Petre GEORGIEVSKI %J Journal of Special Education and Rehabilitation %@ 1857-663X %D 1999 %I Faculty of Philosophy, Institute of Special Education and Rehabilitation %X The effort in this work to elaborate an action research method as a central research problem considering the recent contemporary sociological and educa-tional literature. The author begins with the statement that the method is a complex notion, composed of three main components: approach to the research problem, data gathering procedures and data analysis procedures. This point of view is further applied and elaborated in the author's text, emphasizing the action research characteristics: interruption with the positive tradition in social research and the divided of the objective and subjective, application of the qualitative data. The sub-stantial difference between the action research in regard with the other kinds of research, is not only in getting to new knowledge's, but also in problem solving or a change in the situation in a concrete social context. %K action research %K method %K approach %K data gathering procedures %K data analyses procedures %K triangulation %K complementarity %K collective researcher %K coding %K context %K change %U http://jser.fzf.ukim.edu.mk/pdf/1999-12/0018-0040.pdf