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Category Archives: Action research
The Action Turn – Toward a Transformational Social Science
Read This article offers an epistemological basis for action research, in order to increase the validity, the practical significance, and the transformational potential of social science. The article starts by outlining some of the paradigmatic issues which underlie action research, … Continue reading
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Experiencias y Metodología de la Investigación Participativa
Read El potencial de la investigación participativa apunta a la producción de conocimiento, articulando de manera crítica los aportes de la ciencia y del saber popular, con el fin de reorientarlos hacia la acción transformadora de la realidad. A través … Continue reading
Participatory Action and Learning – A Field Worker’s Guidebook
Read The Guidebook introduces Participatory Action and Learning (PAL) as a way of addressing a number of these issues by providing an approach for both Forest User Group (FUG) members and forestry field staff to learn together from the process. … Continue reading
Action Research and Communicative Action – Changing Teaching Practices and the Organization of Educational Work
Read This paper aims to make a small contribution to the development of some theorising around action research and education, examining a series of topics – Understanding education in a time of change; Studying practice; Action research and the study … Continue reading
Complexity and Action Research – exploring the theoretical and methodological connections
Complexity theory is essentially a formal attempt to question how coherent and purposive wholes emerge from the interactions of simple and sometimes non-purposive components. Explicit recognition of complexity can provide a fresh and enlightening perspective on action research. Through an … Continue reading
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Action Research – Mapping the Nexus of Research and Political Action
This paper aims to capture the richness and diversity of action research on the global justice movement. It starts by proposing a typology of five tendencies (participative-collective method; producing alternative content; strategic thinking for political processes; building relationships and networking … Continue reading
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The Practice of Co-operative Inquiry – Systemic Practice and Action Research
Read This issue of Systemic Practice and Action Research focuses on the practice of co-operative inquiry, and in particular on the choices and actions of those who initiate and facilitate co-operative inquiry groups. I have been struck how much the … Continue reading
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Action Research in Workplace Education
Read The purpose of this project was to help instructors use action research in various workplace practice settings. It was intended to train instructors on how to conduct action research and actually design and carry out a research project that … Continue reading
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Building Bridges – Promoting Public Practice in School – an Action Research project
Read Teaching has traditionally been an isolated practice, conducted by individual teachers and their students behind closed classroom doors. The degree to which teachers, administrators, and other stakeholders view their work as private practice rather than public practice is a … Continue reading
The Intellectual Legitimacy of Participatory Action Research – its grounding in the Interactive moment
Read Their openness and lack of a predetermined, idealized order, is a strength in conversational inquiries, not a weakness. For it is in the disorderly details that come to light within such inquiries, rather than in the confirmation of past … Continue reading
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