The SAGE Handbook of Action Research: Participative Inquiry and Practice

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Peter Reason, Hilary Bradbury
SAGE, 26 mar 2013 - 752 páginas
′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 effectively secures the field′s ′second wave′ in a particularly powerful and creative articulation of well-theorised practice. It could not be more timely for a fast-growing field that has attracted recent appreciation from parties as disparate as Shell, 3M, Australian Aboriginal women in outback Australia working to prevent harm to children and the Secretary General of the UN′

- Yoland Wadsworth

′For anyone thinking about or doing action research, this book is an obligatory point of reference. If any one text both maps the action research paradigm, and at the same time moves it on, this is it′

- Bill Cooke, Manchester Business School

Building on the strength of the seminal first edition, the The SAGE Handbook of Action Research has been completley 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.

Throughout, the contributing authors really engage with the pragmatics of doing action research and demonstrate how this can be a rich and rewarding reflective practice. They tackle questions of how to integrate knowledge with action, how to collaborate with co-researchers in the field, and how to present the necessarily ′messy′ components in a coherent fashion. The organization of the volume reflects the many different issues and levels of analysis represented.

This volume is an essential resource for scholars and professionals engaged in social and political inquiry, organizational research and education.

 

Índice

Introduction
1
PART ONE Groundings
11
Personal Political and Philosophical Groundings for Action Research Practice
15
2 Participatory Action Research as Practice
31
3 Some Trends in the Praxis of Participatory Action Research
49
4 Action Research and the Challenge of Scope
63
Creating the Future Following the Path from Lewin
77
Articulating Dimensions of Feminist Participatory Action Research FPAR
93
Issues and Practices
394
27 Theorizing Audience Products and Provocation
407
Lessons from Bringing Participation to Qualitative Research
420
PART THREE Exemplars
435
Action Research in the Realm of the Between
439
Bridging Experience and Expression with Art Poetry and Song
450
From Faultfinding and Exclusion Towards Colearning and Inclusion
463
Healing from Internalized Oppressions
473

Participatory and Action Research and Praxis
106
8 Critical Theory and Participatory Action Research
121
9 Systems Thinking and Practice for Action Research
139
10 Social Construction and Research as Action
159
11 Power and Knowledge
172
12 Appreciable Worlds Inspired Inquiry
190
Deepening our Commitment to Principles of Social Justice and Redefining Systems of Democratic Practice
199
Action Research and the Transformation of Higher Education
211
The Institutional Collaboration of PRIA and IDR
227
PART TWO Practices
235
Interweaving Multiple Qualities of Attention for Timely Action
239
Linking Causal Theory and Meaning Making in Action Research
252
18 Clinical InquiryResearch
266
19 The Practice of Appreciative Inquiry
280
Practice and Theory
297
21 Action Learning
319
How Far Can Participatory Projects Go Towards Reclaiming Democracy?
333
An Action Research Practice in Support of Actionable Learning
350
24 Extending Epistemology within a Cooperative Inquiry
366
25 Action Research in Healthcare
381
Lessons from Six CooperativeInquiry Groups of Social Justice Leaders
487
Ways of Knowing Our Rosetta Stone for Practice
497
Experiences from Bangladesh
510
Fourteen Years of Experience in Yucatan Mexico
522
The Significance of Participatory Praxis in Developing Participatory Health Intervention
534
38 This Is So Democratic Action Research and Policy Development in East Timor
550
Collaborative Inquiry Using Video with Children Facing the Lifethreatening Illness of a Parent
562
Making Sense of New Technology
573
PART FOUR Skills
585
Relationships Power Participation Change and Credibility
589
On Working with Secondperson Inquiry Groups
602
43 Facilitation as Action Research in the Moment
615
Facing the Challenges of Managing a Largescale Action Research Project
629
The Dynamics of Developing New Capabilities
643
Key Stages Concepts and Practices
656
47 The Praxis of Educating Action Researchers
669
48 Finding Form in Writing for Action Research
682
Whither Action Research?
695
Index
708
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