Research Catalog

Title

Handbook of action research : participative inquiry and practice / edited by Peter Reason and Hilary Bradbury.

Publication

London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2001.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Reason, Peter.
• Bradbury, Hilary.

Description

xlii, 468 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Summary

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.

Subject

• Action research > Handbooks, manuals, etc
• Participant observation > Handbooks, manuals, etc
• Action research
• Participant observation
• Social sciences > Research
• Social sciences
• Research Design
• Social Sciences
• social sciences
• 70.03 methods, techniques and organization of social science research
• Social sciences > Research
• Action research
• Participant observation
• Empirische Sozialforschung
• Aktionsforschung
• Actieonderzoek
• Participerend onderzoek
• Action, Théorie de l'
• Engagement (psychologie)

Genre/Form

• Handbook
• handbooks.
• Handbooks and manuals
• Textbooks (form)
• Handbooks and manuals.
• Guides et manuels.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN

• 0761966455
• 9780761966456
• 0076196645 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

00712465

OCLC

• ocm50303325
• 50303325
• SCSB-1201133

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library