The SAGE Handbook of Action Research: Participative Inquiry and Practice

753 Pages·2007·5.74 MB·English

by  Peter Reason

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The SAGE Handbook of
Action Research
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The SAGE Handbook of
Action Research
Participative Inquiry and Practice
Second Edition
Edited by
Peter Reason
Hilary Bradbury
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Contents
Editorial Board x
Preface xii
Peter Reason and Hilary Bradbury
Notes on Contributors xvi
Introduction 1
Peter Reason and Hilary Bradbury
PARTONE GROUNDINGS 11
Introduction to Groundings 11
Peter Reason and Hilary Bradbury
1 Living Inquiry: Personal, Political and Philosophical
Groundings for Action Research Practice 15
Patricia Gayá Wicks, Peter Reason and Hilary Bradbury
2 Participatory Action Research as Practice 31
Marja Liisa Swantz
3 Some Trends in the Praxis of Participatory Action Research 49
Md.Anisur Rahman
4 Action Research and the Challenge of Scope 63
Bjørn Gustavsen, Agneta Hansson and Thoralf U. Qvale
5 Action Research at Work: Creating the Future Following
the Path from Lewin 77
Hilary Bradbury, Phil Mirvis, Eric Neilsen and William Pasmore
6 Continuing the Journey: Articulating Dimensions
of Feminist Participatory Research (FPAR) 93
Colleen Reid and Wendy Frisby
7 Towards Transformational Liberation: Participatory
and Action Research and Praxis 106
M. Brinton Lykes and Amelia Mallona
8 Critical Theory and Participatory Action Research 121
Stephen Kemmis
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9 Systems Thinking and Practice for Action Research 139
Ray Ison
10 Social Construction and Research as Action 159
Kenneth J. Gergen and Mary M. Gergen
11 Power and Knowledge 172
John Gaventa and Andrea Cornwall
12 Appreciable Worlds, Inspired Inquiry 190
Danielle P. Zandee and David L. Cooperrider
13 Ethics and Action Research: Deepening our Commitment
to Principles of Social Justice and Redefining
Systems of Democratic Practice 199
Mary Brydon-Miller
14 The Future of Universities: Action Research
and the Transformation of Higher Education 211
Morten Levin and Davydd Greenwood
15 Action Research, Partnerships and Social Impacts:
The Institutional Collaboration of PRIAand IDR 227
L. David Brown and Rajesh Tandon
PARTTWO PRACTICES 235
Introduction to Practices 235
Peter Reason and Hilary Bradbury
16 Action Inquiry: Interweaving Multiple Qualities
of Attention for Timely Action 239
William R. Torbert and Steven S. Taylor
17 Action Science: Linking Causal Theory and Meaning
Making in Action Research 252
Victor J. Friedman and Tim Rogers
18 Clinical Inquiry/Research 266
Edgar H. Schein
19 The Practice of Appreciative Inquiry 280
James D. Ludema and Ronald E. Fry
20 PRA, PLAand Pluralism: Practice and Theory 297
Robert Chambers
21 Action Learning 319
Mike Pedler and John Burgoyne
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CONTENTS VII
22 The Jury is Out: How Far Can Participatory Projects Go
Towards Reclaiming Democracy? 333
Tom Wakeford with Jasber Singh, Bano Murtuja, Peter Bryant
and Michel Pimbert
23 Learning History: An Action Research Practice in Support
of Actionable Learning 350
George Roth and Hilary Bradbury
24 Extending Epistemology within a Co-operative Inquiry 366
John Heron and Peter Reason
25 Action Research in Healthcare 381
Ian Hughes
26 Action Research on a Large Scale: Issues and Practices 394
Ann W. Martin
27 Theorizing Audience, Products and Provocation 407
Michelle Fine and Maria Elena Torre
28 Taking the Action Turn: Lessons from Bringing Participation
to Qualitative Research 420
Sonia Ospina, Jennifer Dodge, Erica Gabrielle Foldy and
Amparo Hofmann-Pinilla
PARTTHREE EXEMPLARS 435
Introduction to Exemplars: Varieties of Action Research 435
Hilary Bradbury and Peter Reason
29 Charismatic Inquiry in Concert: Action Research in the
Realm of ‘the Between’ 439
John Heron and Gregg Lahood
30 Presentational Knowing: Bridging Experience and Expression with
Art, Poetry and Song 450
Jennifer Mullett
31 Working with ‘Not Knowing’Amid Power Dynamics Among Managers:
From Faultfinding and Exclusion Towards Co-learning and Inclusion 463
Marianne Kristiansen and Jørgen Bloch-Poulsen
32 Learning to Love Our Black Selves: Healing from Internalized Oppressions 473
Taj Johns
33 The Tapestry of Leadership: Lessons from Six Cooperative-
Inquiry Groups of Social Justice Leaders 487
Lyle Yorks, Arnold Aprill, LaDon James, Anita Rees,
Amparo Hoffman-Pinilla and Sonia Ospina
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34 The Workplace Stress and Aggression Project:
Ways of Knowing – Our Rosetta Stone for Practice 497
Rita Kowalski, Lyle Yorks and Mariann Jelinek
35 Theatre in Participatory Action Research: Experiences
from Bangladesh 510
Meghna Guhathakurta
36 Changing the Culture of Dependency to Allow for
Successful Outcomes in Particpatory Research: Fourteen Years of
Experience in Yucatan, Mexico. 522
María Teresa Castillo-Burguete, María Dolores
Viga de Alva and Federico Dickinson
37 Health Promotion and Participatory Action Research:
The Significance of Participatory Praxis in Developing Participatory
Health Intervention 534
Lai Fong Chui
38 ‘This Is So Democratic!!’Action Research and Policy Development
in East Timor 550
Ernie Stringer
39 ‘No – You Don’tKnow How We Feel!’: Collaborative Inquiry Using
Video with Children Facing the Life-threatening Illness of a Parent 562
Gillian Chowns
40 ITand Action Sensemaking: Making Sense of New Technology 573
Chris Dymek
PARTFOUR SKILLS 585
Introduction to Skills
Peter Reason and Hilary Bradbury
41 Negotiating the Challenges of Participatory Action Research:
Relationships, Power, Participation, Change and Credibility 589
Jill Grant, Geoff Nelson and Terry Mitchell
42 Getting in, Getting on, Getting out: On Working with
Second-person Inquiry Groups 602
Kate Louise McArdle
43 Facilitation as Action Research in the Moment 615
Jenny Mackewn
44 Muddling Through: Facing the Challenges of Managing a
Large-scale Action Research Project 629
Geoff Mead
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45 Insider Action Research: The Dynamics of Developing
New Capabilities 643
David Coghlan and A.B. (Rami) Shani
46 Teaching Reflective Practice in the Action Science/Action Inquiry
Tradition: Key Stages, Concepts and Practices 656
Steven S. Taylor, Jenny W. Rudolph and Erica Gabrielle Foldy
47 The Praxis of Educating Action Researchers 669
Morten Levin
48 Finding Form in Writing for Action Research 682
Judi Marshall
49 Concluding Reflections: Whither Action Research? 695
Peter Reason and Hilary Bradbury
Index 708