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Title The SAGE handbook of action research : participative inquiry and practice / edited by Peter Reason, Hilary Bradbury
Edition Second edition
Published Los Angeles [Calif.] ; London : SAGE, 2008
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Description 1 online resource (xxxii, 720 pages) : illustrations
Contents PART ONE. Groundings -- PART TWO. Practices -- PART THREE. Exemplars -- PART FOUR. Skills --
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 Research -- 9. 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 Action -- 17. 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 Practices -- 27. 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 Leaders -- 34. 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 -- 38. 'This Is So Democratic!' Action Research and Policy Development in East Timor -- 39. 'No -- You Don't Know How We Feel!': Collaborative Inquiry Using Video with Children Facing the Life-threatening Illness of a Parent -- 40. IT and Action Sensemaking: Making Sense of New Technology -- PART FOUR. Skills -- 41. Negotiating the Challenges of Participatory Action Research: Relationships, Power, Participation, Change and Credibility -- 42. Getting in, Getting on, Getting out: On Working with Second-person Inquiry Groups -- 43. Facilitation as Action Research in the Moment -- 44. Muddling Through: Facing the Challenges of Managing a Large-scale Action Research Project -- 45. Insider Action Research: The Dynamics of Developing New Capabilities -- 46. Teaching Reflective Practice in the Action Science/Action Inquiry Tradition: Key Stages, Concepts and Practices -- 47. The Praxis of Educating Action Researchers -- 48. Finding Form in Writing for Action Research -- 49. Concluding Reflections: Whither Action Research?
Summary This handbook has been updated to bring chapters in line with the latest qualitative and quantitative approaches in this field of social inquiry. Peter Reason and Hilary Bradbury have introduced new part commentaries that draw links between different contributions and show their interrelations
Notes Previous edition: published as Handbook of action research. 2001
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Action research.
Participant observation.
Form Electronic book
Author Reason, Peter.
Bradbury, Hilary.
ISBN 9781848607934 (ebook)
1848607938 (ebook)
Other Titles Action research