Research Catalog

Title

Synergic inquiry : a collaborative action methodology / editors, Yongming Tang, Charles Joiner.

Publication

Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, ©2006.

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Additional Authors

• Tang, Yongming.
• Joiner, Charles W.

Description

xii, 265 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

This book introduces a new, collaborative action methodology-called synergic inquiry (SI)-for investigating and effecting transformative change in our individual and collective lives. It is designed to work within the four areas of our lives-the mental, the social, the political, and the spiritual. In this text, editors Yongming Tang and Charles Joiner stress a strong theory/practice mix.

Subject

• Group relations training
• Problem solving
• Conflict management
• Interpersonal relations
• Intergroup relations
• Difference (Psychology)
• Consciousness
• Problem Solving
• Consciousness
• Groepsdynamica
• Probleemoplossing

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-245) and index.

Contents

Introduction -- Overview of synergic inquiry -- The synergic universe -- Synergic inquiry, paradigms, and other methodologies -- Practicing synergic inquiry -- Geisha and cowboy : synergizing inner life differences through the mythic realm / Joanne Gozawa -- Husband and wife synergizing / Venus Bobis Jendresen and Eric Bobis -- Synergizing the mother-daughter relationship / Lien Cao -- Developing a community through synergic envisioning / Elisa Sabatini -- Using synergic inquiry to resolve a group conflict / Lien Cao -- Synergic inquiry in action : the expansion of racial consciousness / Carole Barlas ... [et al.] -- Gender synergy : using synergic inquiry to work with gender differences / Yongming Tang ... [et al.] -- Teaching synergic inquiry in a high school setting / Roma Hammel -- Synergizing cultural differences for improving organizational performance : a case study of synergic inquiry in China / Charles Joiner, Yongming Tang, and Yifu Yin -- Synergic inquiry and organizational transformation : a case study of synergic inquiry application to a U.S. organization working in Mexico / Charles Joiner, Susan Cannon, and Karen O'Neil -- Reflections and implications.

ISBN

• 0761912088
• 0761912096
• 9780761912088
• 9780761912095

LCCN

• 2006002938
• 9780761912095 (pbk.)

OCLC

• ocm63660223
• 63660223
• SCSB-8804798

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library