Description
The third edition of The SAGE Handbook of Action Research presents an updated version of the bestselling text, including new chapters covering emerging areas in healthcare, social work, education and international development, as well as an expanded ‘skills’ section which includes new consultant-relevant materials.
Building on the strength of the previous landmark editions, Hilary Bradbury has carefully developed this edition to ensure it follows in their footsteps by mapping the current state of the discipline, as well as looking to the future of the field and exploring the issues at the cutting edge of the action research paradigm today.
This volume is an essential resource for scholars and professionals engaged in social and political inquiry, healthcare, international development, new media, organizational research and education.
Table of Contents
Introduction: How to Situate and Define Action Research - Hilary Bradbury
PART ONE: PRACTICES
Introduction to Practices - Alfredo Ortiz Aragón and María Teresa Castillo-Burguete
The Practice of Learning History: Local and Open System Approaches - Hilary Bradbury, George Roth, Margaret Gearty
PRA, PLA and Pluralism: Practice and Theory - Robert Chambers
Developing the Practice of Leading Change through Insider Action Research: A Dynamic Capability Perspective - David Coghlan and A.B. Shani
Innovations In Appreciative Inquiry: Critical Appreciative Inquiry With Excluded Pakistani Women - Graham Duncan
Collaborative Developmental Action Inquiry - Aftab Erfan and Bill Torbert
Systematization of Experiences: A Practice of Participatory Research from Latin America - Elza Falkembach and Alfonso Torres Carillo
Empowerment Evaluation and Action Research: A Convergence of Values, Principles, and Purpose - David M. Fetterman
Action Evaluation: An Action Research Practice for the Participative Definition, Monitoring, and Assessment of Success in Social Innovation and Conflict Engagement - Victor J. Friedman and Jay Rothman
Theatre in Participatory Action Research: Experiences from Bangladesh - Meghna Guhathakurta
Using T-Groups to Develop Action Research Skills In Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous Environments - Michael Krot and Lisa Stefanac
The Action Research Practice of Urban Planning — An Example from Hong Kong - Hok Bun Ku & Jackie Y. C. Kwok
The artistry of emancipatory practice: Photovoice, creative techniques, and feminist anti-racist participatory action research - M. Brinton Lykes and Holly Scheib
Action Science Revisited: Building Knowledge Out of Practice to Transform Practice - Diana McLain Smith
Systemic Intervention - Gerald Midgley
Community Based Participatory Research with communities defined by race, ethnicity, and disability: Translating theory to practice - Christina Nicolaidis and Dora Raymaker
Action Learning - Mike Pedler and John Burgoyne
The Network Leadership Innovation Lab: A Practice for Social Change - Elissa Perry, Robin Katcher, Mark Leach and Laurie Mazur
Awareness-Based Action Research: Catching Social Reality Creation in Flight - Otto Scharmer and Katrin Kaufer
The World Café in Action Research Settings - Frederick Steier, Juanita Brown and Flavio Mesquita da Silva
Ethnographic Action Research: Media, information and communicative ecologies for development initiatives - Jo Tacchi
Re-Fashioning Citizens’ Juries: Participatory Democracy In Action - Tom Wakeford, Michel Pimbert and Erin Walcon
The practice of helping students to find their first person voice in creating living-theories for Education - Jack Whitehead
The Practice of Teaching Co-operative Inquiry - Lyle Yorks
PART TWO: EXEMPLARS
Introduction to Exemplars - Svante Lifvergren and Kent Glenzer
Symbiosis of Action Research and Deliberative Democracy in the Context of Participatory Constitution-Making - Oguz N. Babüroglu, Gülru Z. Göker, Emre Koyuncu
Action Research in Universities and Higher Education Worldwide - Rebecca Boden, Davydd Greenwood, Budd Hall, Morten Levin, Judi Marshall, and Susan Wright
‘I’m not afraid of him; that dog barks but he don’t bite’. PAR processes, gender equity and emancipation with women in Yucatan, Mexico - María Teresa Castillo-Burguete, Carmen García-Gómez, Pedro Castro-Borges and Federico Dickinson
Insurgent inquiry: Connecting action research, impact evaluation, and global strategy in a rights-based international development NGO - Kent Glenzer, Elisa Martinez, and Michael Drinkwater
Action Research with Marginalized Immigrants’ Coming to Voice: Twenty Years of Social Movement Support in Taiwan and Still Going - Hsiao-Chuan Hsia
Improving health and well being: Researching alongside marginalized people across diverse domains - Tina Koch
After a Decade of Action Research: Impactful Systems Improvement in Swedish Healthcare - Svante Lifvergren, Tony Huzzard and Andreas Hellström
Action Research As A Transformative Force In Management Education: Introducing The Collaboratory - Katrin Muff
Achieving Equity in Education - Ernie Stringer
PART THREE: GROUNDINGS
Introduction to Groundings - Hilary Bradbury
Praxis – Retrieving the Roots of Action Research - Olav Eikeland
Core Issues in Modern Epistemology for Action Researchers: dancing between knower and known - Gil Coleman
Social Construction and Research as Action - Kenneth J. Gergen and Mary M. Gergen
How to succeed in action research without really acting: Tracing the development of action research to constructivist practice in organizational worklife - Bjørn Gustavsen and ∅yvind Pålshaugen
Organization Development: Action Research for Organizational Change - David Coghlan
Evolutionary Systems Thinking: What Gregory Bateson, Kurt Lewin, and Jacob Moreno Offered to Action Research That Still Remains to be Learned - Davydd J. Greenwood
How Change Happens: The implications of complexity and systems thinking for Action Research - Danny Burns
Complex Systems and Emergence in Action Research - Benyamin Lichtenstein
Critical theory and critical participatory action research - Stephen Kemmis, Robin McTaggart and Rhonda Nixon
Power and Knowledge - John Gaventa and Andrea Cornwall
Research, Participation and Social Transformation: Grounding Systematization of Experiences in Latin American Perspectives - Danilo R. Streck and Oscar Jara Holiday
Knowledge Democracy, Community Based Action Research, The Global South And The Excluded North - George Ladaah Openjuru, Namrata Jaitli, Rajesh Tandon and Budd Hall
Participatory Action Research: Its Origins and Future in Women’s Ways - Marja-Liisa Swantz
The Location of Race in Action Research - Erica Gabrielle Foldy
Sex and Sensibilities: Doing Action Research while Respecting Even Inspiring Dignity - Lauren Martin
Crowdsourcing and Action Research. Fostering people’s participation in research through digital media - Chiara Certomà and Michel Pimbert
Naturally emerging regulation and the danger of delegitimizing conventional leadership: Drawing on the example of Wikipedia - Dariusz Jemielniak
Action Research in an Online World - Dusty Columbia Embury
Large Scale Change Action Research - Steve Waddell, Milla McLachlan, Greta Meszoely and Sandra Waddock
Companions to Action Research: Reaching beyond our networks to build alignments and a common repository of resources - Gabriele Bammer
Action Research and Ecological Practice - Peter Reason and Susan Canney
Ecofeminism and systems thinking: Shared ethics of care for action research - Anne Stephens
The Integrating (Feminine) Reach Of Action Research: A Nonet For Epistemological Voice - Hilary Bradbury
Expanding Reach and Justice with PAR: Working with More Than Humans - Debra Merskin and Debra Durham
PART FOUR: SKILLS
Introduction to Skills - Dusty Columbia Embury
Widening the Circle: Ethical Reflection in Action Research and the Practice of Structured Ethical Reflection - Mary Brydon-Miller, Amy Rector Aranda, and Douglas M. Stevens
The Skillful Means of Engaged Research - Jacques M. Chevalier, Daniel J. Buckles and Michelle Bourassa
Feelings in first person action research - Hanne Heen
Clearing Obstacles: An Exercise to Expand a Person’s Repertoire of Action - Elaine Herdman-Barker and Aftab Erfan
A cross-cultural approach with East-Asian epistemology: Developing soft skills in action research - Noriyuki Inoue
Cultivating Intention (As we enter the fray): The Practice of Embodying Presence, Awareness, and Purpose as Action Researchers - David McCallum and Aliki Nicolaides
Holding Theory Skillfully in Consulting Interventions - Grady McGonagill and Dana Carman
You Better Check Your Method Before You Wreck Your Method: Challenging and Transforming Photovoice - Angie P. Mejia
Discovering Philosophical Assumptions That Guide Action Research: The Reflexive Toolbox Approach - Michael O’Rourke, Chad Gonnerman, Stephen J. Crowley, and Troy E. Hall
Radical epistemology as caffeine for social change - Alfredo Ortiz Aragón and Juan Carlos Giles Macedo
Mediated dialogue in action research - Charles J. Palus and John B. McGuire
Teaching The Heart of Action Research Skills: Breaking Free in the Classroom - Timothy Pyrch
Practice of Mindful Intuition: Bi-Directional Openness: The Skill of Expressing And Sensing Leadership That Serves a Group - Yumi Sera
Designerly Ways for Action Research - Howard Silverman
Nurturing Creative Destruction: Bringing Management Mindsets and Influence Skillsets to Health Care - Nicole A. Steckler and James J. Huntzicker
Teaching and Learning Reflective Practice in the Action Science/Action Inquiry Tradition - Steven S. Taylor, Jenny W. Rudolph, and Erica Gabrielle Foldy
From Research “On” to Research “With”: Developing Skills for Research with Sex Workers - Emily van der Meulen
Shared inquiry capabilities and differing inquiry preferences: Navigating ‘full cycle’ iterations of action research - Yoland Wadsworth
Unlocking the Secrets of Personal and Systemic Power: The Power Lab and Action Inquiry in the Classroom - Nancy C. Wallis
