Handbook of action research : participative inquiry and practice /

This volume provides a guide to the different theories, methods and debates associated with action or participative research. It represents a wide range of theory and practice, and challenges the modernist paradigm and value system.

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Other Authors: Reason, Peter, Bradbury, Hilary
Format: Government Document Book
Language:English
Published: London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2001.
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Table of Contents:
  • Theory and practice: the mediating discourse / Bjøorn Gustavsen
  • Participatory (Action) research in social theory: origins and challenges / Orlando Fals Borda
  • Action research in the workplace: the socio-technical perspective / William Pasmore
  • Infusing race into the US discourse on action research / Ella Edmondson Bell
  • Uneven ground: feminisms and action research / Patricia Maguire
  • Power and knowledge / John Geventa and Andrea Cornwall
  • Knowledge and participatory research / Peter Park
  • Exploring the relevance of critical theory for action research: emancipatory action research in the footsteps of Jürgen Habermas / Stephen Kemmis
  • Pragmatic action research and the struggle to transform universities into learning communities / Morten Levin and Davydd Greenwood
  • The humanistic approach to action research / John Rowan.
  • Engaging sympathies: relationships between action research and social constructivism / Yvonna S. Lincoln
  • The relationship of 'systems thinking' to action research / Robert Louis Flood
  • Action research as the hidden curriculum of the Western Tradition / Olav Eikeland
  • Action science; creating communities of inquiry in communities of practice / Victor J. Friedman
  • I wish this were a poem of practices of participatory research / Budd L. Hall
  • The practice of co-operative inquiry: research 'with' rather than 'on' people / John Heron and Peter Reason
  • Appreciative inquiry: the power of the unconditional positive question / James D. Ludem, David L. Cooperrider and Frank J. Barrett
  • Large-group processes as action research / Ann W. Martin
  • The use of words: improving enterprises by improving their conversations / ØOyvind Palshaugen.
  • Ethnodrama: constructing participatory, experiential and compelling action research through performance / Jim Mienczakowski and Stephen Morgan
  • Clinical inquiry / Research / Edgar H. Schein
  • Community action research: learning as a community of practitioners, consultants and researcher / Peter Senge and Otto Scharmer
  • The practice of action inquiry / William R. Torbert
  • The turn to action and the linguistic turn: towards an integrated methodology / Lesley Treleaven
  • Educational action research / Ken Zeichner
  • Working together, learning together: co-operative inquiry in the development of complex practice by teams of social workers / Mark Baldwin
  • The early mothering project: what happened when the words 'Action research' came to life for a group of midwives / Penelope A. Barrett
  • Citizen participation in natural resource management / Yogesh Bhatt and Rajesh Tandon.
  • Leaning with The Natural Step: action research to promote conversations for sustainable development / Hilary Bradbury
  • Transforming lives: towards bicultural competence / Gloria Bravette Gordon
  • Action research to develop an interorganizational network / Rupert F. Chisholm
  • Transpersonal co-operative inquiry / John Heron
  • Using co-operative inquiry to transform evaluation of nursing students' clinical practice / Marcia D. Hills
  • Collaborative inquiry with African American community leaders: comments on a participatory action research process / James G. Kelly, Lynne O. Mock and S. Darius Tandon
  • Participatory research and education for social change : highlander research and education center / Helen M. Lewis
  • Creative arts and photography in participatory action research in Guatemala / M. Brinton Lykes, in collaboration with the Association of Maya Ixil Women
  • New Dawn, Chajul, Guatemala.
  • The art of clinical inquiry in information technology-related change / Joe McDonagh and David Coghlan
  • The sights and sounds of indigenous knowledge / Timothy Pyrch and Mar*ia Teresa Castillo
  • Participatory action research in Southern Tanzania, with special reference to women / Marja-liisa Swantz, Elizabeth Ndedya and Mwajuma Saiddy Masaignah
  • Six street youth who could ... / Elizabeth Whitmore and Colette McKee
  • Collaborative off-line reflection: a way to develop skill in action science and action inquiry / Jenny W. Rudoph, Steven S. Taylor and Erica Gabrielle Foldy
  • On working with graduate research students / Peter Reason and Judi Marshall
  • The mirror, the magnifying glass, the compass and the map : facilitating participatory action research / Yoland Wadsworth
  • Self-reflective inquiry practices / Judi Marshall.
  • The third task of universities or how to get universities to serve their communities! / Göran Grulin
  • Conclusion: broadening the bandwidth of validity: issues and choice-points for improving the quality of action research / Hilary Bradbury and Peter Reason.