Synergic Inquiry: A Collaborative Action Methodology

✍ Scribed by Yongming Tang, Charles Joiner

• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 281
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book introduces a new, collaborative action methodology-called synergic inquiry (SI)-for both investigating and effecting transformative change among our individual and collective lives. It is inspired to work within the four levels of our lives-the mental, the social, the political, and the spiritual. In this text, editors Yongming Tang and Charles Joiner stress a strong theory/practice mix.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
Foreword......Page 8
Preface......Page 12
1. Introduction
......Page 14
PART I The Synergic Inquiry Methodology and Its Theoretical Foundation......Page 30
2. Overview of Synergic Inquiry
......Page 32
3. The Synergic Universe
......Page 58
4. Synergic Inquiry, Paradigms, and Other Methodologies......Page 74
PART II Synergic Inquiry Practices......Page 100
5. Practicing Synergic Inquiry
......Page 102
6. Geisha and Cowboy: Synergizing Inner Life Differences Through the Mythic Realm......Page 118
7. Husband and Wife Synergizing
......Page 124
8. Synergizing the Mother-Daughter Relationship......Page 132
9. Developing a Community Through Synergic Envisioning......Page 136
10. Using Synergic Inquiry to Resolve a Group Conflict......Page 142
11. Synergic Inquiry in Action: The Expansion of Racial Consciousness......Page 146
12. Gender Synergy: Using Synergic Inquiry to Work With Gender Differences......Page 168
13. Teaching Synergic Inquiry in a High School Setting......Page 188
14. Synergizing Cultural Differences for Improving Organizational Performance: A Case Study of Synergic Inquiry in China......Page 196
15. Synergic Inquiry and Organizational Transformation: A Case Study of Synergic Inquiry Application in a U.S. Organization Working in Mexico......Page 212
16. Reflections and Implications
......Page 240
References......Page 254
Index......Page 260