With its many research methods covered-both theoretical and practical-Inquiry in Action offers resources for inquiry and action in the field of art education for scholars, pK-16 art teachers, researchers and practitioners in other disciplines, administrators, policy makers, and interested community members. This important resource will well serve art education researchers and grad students, both novice and experienced, as they learn about constructing new knowledge or challenging past and present assumptions. In helping readers gain an understanding of the various conditions for investigation, the authors define terminology used in art education research, discussing and providing exemplars of how various paradigms, methodologies, and perspectives are best suited to a question-driven examination.