This course addresses the long tradition of reflective practice in education, which affects the work of individual professionals, and provides evalution of innovative activities, for example involving new technologies and race relations in the classroom. This is a growing research field internationally. The course will demostrate the power of action research as a methodology that is very practical in educational settings in transforming organizations. Structural, strategic, individual and personal dimensions of action research projects will be illuminated within a perspective of building a community of practice to transform the educational organizations.