Full Description
A professional text written for social science researchers and practitioners, Research, Actionable Knowledge and Social Change provides strategies and frameworks for using social science research to engage in critical social and educational problem solving. Combining the best practices of critical analysis and traditional research methods, this professional text offers guidance for using the Action Inquiry Model (AIM), a transformative model that explains how to successfully conduct action-oriented research in a multitude of professional service organizations. The aim of the text is to encourage a new generation of research-based partnerships reforms that promote equity and access for underserved populations.
Topics discussed include:
The historical precedents for universities engaged in social change
The limitations of current social science theory and methods
The critical-empirical approach to social research
The issues relating to social justice within the policy decision process
The use of social research to integrate an emphasis of social justice into economic and policy decision making
Research, Actionable Knowledge and Social Change does not propose different foundations for social research, but rather argues that it is necessary to reconsider how to work with theory and research methods to inform change. This text can also be used by students enrolled in graduate and Ed.D/Ph.D Higher Education Leadership programs and graduate programs across professional fields including K-12, public administration, sociology, health, cultural studies, organizational development and organizational theory. It further offers students guidance for research design and dissertation research.
Contents
Illustrations Foreword - Penny A. Pasque Preface Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Reframing Social and Educational Research 2. Critical-Empirical Approach 3. Action Inquiry Model 4. Professional Development 5. Organizational Change 6. Public Policy 7. Leadership and the Public Good 8. Conclusions Appendix. Dissertation Research References Index
