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The Sage handbook of action research : participative inquiry and practice

"For anyone seeking to create meaning out of life, inspire others with publication of research discoveries and insights, and help the world become a better place within which to live and work, action research holds great promise as an approach. The challenge is to do it well and with rigor. The Handbook is a magnificent collection of articles that will help the reader do all of that"--Richard E. Boyatzis, Case Western Reserve University and ESADE 'This second volume will be a welcome extension of the landmark first volume of the Sage Handbook of Action Research. It eff
eBook, English, 2008
SAGE Publications, London, 2008
Handbooks and manuals
1 online resource (xxxii, 720 pages) : illustrations
9781446206584, 9781446271148, 9781283835541, 9781412920292, 1446206580, 1446271145, 1283835541, 1412920299
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Editorial Board; Preface; Contributors; Introduction; PART ONE Groundings; 1 Living Inquiry: Personal, Political and Philosophical Groundings for Action Research Practice; 2 Participatory Action Research as Practice; 3 Some Trends in the Praxis of Participatory Action Research; 4 Action Research and the Challenge of Scope; 5 Action Research at Work: Creating the Future Following the Path from Lewin; 6 Continuing the Journey: Articulating Dimensions of Feminist Participatory Action Research (FPAR); 7 Towards Transformational Liberation: Participatory and Action Research and Praxis. 8 Critical Theory and Participatory Action Research9 Systems Thinking and Practice for Action Research; 10 Social Construction and Research as Action; 11 Power and Knowledge; 12 Appreciable Worlds, Inspired Inquiry; 13 Ethics and Action Research: Deepening our Commitment to Principles of Social Justice and Redefining Systems of Democratic Practice; 14 The Future of Universities: Action Research and the Transformation of Higher Education; 15 Action Research, Partnerships and Social Impacts: The Institutional Collaboration of PRIA and IDR; PART TWO Practices. 16 Action Inquiry: Interweaving Multiple Qualities of Attention for Timely Action17 Action Science: Linking Causal Theory and Meaning Making in Action Research; 18 Clinical Inquiry/Research; 19 The Practice of Appreciative Inquiry; 20 PRA, PLA and Pluralism: Practice and Theory; 21 Action Learning; 22 The Jury is Out: How Far Can Participatory Projects Go Towards Reclaiming Democracy?; 23 Learning History: An Action Research Practice in Support of Actionable Learning; 24 Extending Epistemology within a Co-operative Inquiry; 25 Action Research in Healthcare. 26 Action Research on a Large Scale: Issues and Practices27 Theorizing Audience, Products and Provocation; 28 Taking the Action Turn: Lessons from Bringing Participation to Qualitative Research; PART THREE Exemplars; 29 Charismatic Inquiry in Concert: Action Research in the Realm of 'the Between'; 30 Presentational Knowing: Bridging Experience and Expression with Art, Poetry and Song; 31 Working with 'Not Knowing' Amid Power Dynamics Among Managers: From Faultfinding and Exclusion Towards Co-learning and Inclusion; 32 Learning to Love Our Black Selves: Healing from Internalized Oppressions. 33 The Tapestry of Leadership: Lessons from Six Cooperative-Inquiry Groups of Social Justice Leaders34 The Workplace Stress and Aggression Project: Ways of Knowing
Our Rosetta Stone for Practice; 35 Theatre in Participatory Action Research: Experiences from Bangladesh; 36 Changing the Culture of Dependency to Allow for Successful Outcomes in Participatory Research: Fourteen Years of Experience in Yucatan, Mexico; 37 Health Promotion and Participatory Action Research: The Significance of Participatory Praxis in Developing Participatory Health Intervention