Guest Editor’s Introduction: Practitioners of Action Research in International Education Settings

David Alan Sapp is Assistant Professor of English and Coordinator of Professional Writing at Fairfield University where he teaches composition, technical writing, and English education. In recent years, he has conducted classroom-based research at the China Agricultural University in Beijing, Universidade do Sul de Santa Catarina in Brazil, Saint Louis University--Madrid in Spain, and New Mexico State University along the U.S.-Mexico border. In addition to serving as guest editor of this special issue, his article "Education as Apprenticeship for Social Action" is available in Networks 3.1 (April 2000).