'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 Hand
Handbook of Action Research: Participative Inquiry and Practice
β Scribed by Peter Reason, Hilary Bradbury
- Publisher
- Sage Publications Ltd
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 508
- Edition
- 1st
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
A remarkable reframing of action research that engages the spirit as well as the mind, in inquiry that matters, shared among inquirers who matter. "Validity" as we once knew it will never be the same after these improvements. Wonderfully provocative!' - Karl Weick, University of MichiganThis is truly a significant work. Not only has action research reached maturity, but in the context of the postmodern constructionist debates its scope has been dramatically expanded, its conceptual underpinnings deepened, and its forms of practice enormously enriched. The present confluence of humanism and pragmatism has inspired lively conversations between us; the work has the potential to transform the very idea of socia
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