Action Research in education

I never heard of action research before reading the articles that we had to read in our Thesis 1 class. It is an intereting way of researching, you are actually going out into the world and researching the community, schools, students, or teachers of that place by talking with them and asking questions. You do alot of observation in action research and there are many other ways of doing this sort of research than just observing. I'm still not sure how I'm going to go about doing action research or what methods would I use yet, I'm sure I will know when we do start doing the action research process itself.