Handbook of Action Research: Concise Paperback EditionPeter Reason, Hilary Bradbury With the Handbook of Action Research hailed as a turning point in how action research is framed and understood by scholars, this student edition has been structured to provide an easy inroad into the field for researchers and students. It includes concise chapter summaries and an informative introduction that draws together the different strands of action research and reveals their diverse applications as well as their interrelations. Divided into four parts, there are important themes of thinking and practice running throughout. |
Contents
Inquiry and Participation in Search of a World Worthy of Human Aspiration | 1 |
GROUNDINGS | 15 |
Theory and Practice the Mediating Discourse | 17 |
Participatory Action Research in Social Theory Origins and Challenges | 27 |
Action Research in the Workplace the Sociotechnical Perspective | 38 |
Infusing Race into the US Discourse on Action Research | 49 |
Uneven Ground Feminisms and Action Research | 60 |
Power and Knowledge | 71 |
The Practice of Action Inquiry | 207 |
EXEMPLARS | 219 |
Working Together Learning Together Cooperative Inquiry in the Development of Complex Practice by Teams of Social Workers | 221 |
The Early Mothering Project What Happened When the Words Action Research Came to Life for a Group of Midwives | 228 |
Learning with The Natural Step Action Research to Promote Conversations for Sustainable Development | 236 |
Transforming Lives Towards Bicultural Competence | 243 |
Action Research to Develop an Interorganizational Network | 253 |
Participatory Research and Education for Social Change Highlander Research and Education Center | 262 |
Knowledge and Participatory Research | 83 |
Exploring the Relevance of Critical Theory for Action Research Emancipatory Action Research in the Footsteps of Jurgen Habermas | 94 |
The Humanistic Approach to Action Research | 106 |
The Relationship of Systems Thinking to Action Research | 117 |
PRACTICES | 129 |
Action Science Creating Communities of Inquiry in Communities of Practice | 131 |
The Practice of Cooperative Inquiry Research with rather than on People | 144 |
Appreciative Inquiry the Power of the Unconditional Positive Question | 155 |
Largegroup Processes as Action Research | 166 |
Ethnodrama Constructing Participatory Experiential and Compelling Action Research through Performance | 176 |
Clinical InquiryResearch | 185 |
Community Action Research Learning as a Community of Practitioners Consultants and Researchers | 195 |
Creative Arts and Photography in Participatory Action Research in Guatemala | 269 |
The Art of Clinical Inquiry in Information Technologyrelated Change | 279 |
Participatory Action Research in Southern Tanzania with Special Reference to Women | 286 |
Six Street Youth Who Could | 297 |
SKILLS | 305 |
Collaborative Offline Reflection a Way to Develop Skill in Action Science and Action Inquiry | 307 |
On Working with Graduate Research Students | 315 |
The Mirror the Magnifying Glass the Compass and the Map Facilitating Participatory Action Research | 322 |
Selfreflective Inquiry Practices | 335 |
Broadening the Bandwidth of Validity Issues and Choicepoints for Improving the Quality of Action Research | 343 |
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