ISBN (13)9781412920292 
LanguageEnglish 
Classification300.72 REA 
Title EntryThe SAGE handbook of action research: 
Subtitleparticipative inquiry and practice 
MediumBook 
Edition2nd 
Class Scheme & Edition DDC 23 
AuthorsReason, Peter (editor);  Bradbury, Hilary (editor) 
Cover
Place of PublicationLondon, England : 
Publisher's NameSage Publications Incorporated, 
Date of Publication2009 
Extentxxxii, 720p.  
Other Detailsfigures, indexed, notes, references, tables  
Item DescriptorEngaging with the pragmatics of doing action research and demonstrating how this can be a rich and rewarding reflective practice. This 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 
Formatted Content NoteSections include - Introduction/ Peter Reason and Hilary Bradbury; Groundings; Introduction to groundings/ Peter Reason and Hilary Bradbury; Living inquiry - personal, political and philosophical groundings for action research practice/ Patricia Gayá Wicks, Peter Reason and Hilary Bradbury; Participatory action research as practice/ Marja Liisa Swantz; Some trends in the praxis of participatory action research/ Md Anisur Rahman; Action research and the challenge of scope/ Bjørn Gustavsen, Agneta Hansson and Thoralf U Qvale; Action research at work - creating the future following the path from Lewin/ Hilary Bradbury, Phil Mirvis, Eric Neilsen and William Pasmore; Continuing the journey - articulating dimensions of feminist participatory research (FPAR)/ Colleen Reid and Wendy Frisby; Towards transformational liberation - participatory and action research and praxis/ M Brinton Lykes and Amelia Mallona; Critical theory and participatory action research/ Stephen Kemmis; Systems thinking and practice for action research/ Ray Ison; Social construction and research as action/ Kenneth J Gergen and Mary M Gergen; Power and knowledge/ John Gaventa and Andrea Cornwall; Appreciable worlds, inspired inquiry/ Danielle P Zandee and David L Cooperrider; Ethics and action research - deepening our commitment to principles of social justice and redefining systems of democratic practice/ Mary Brydon-Miller; The future of universities - action research and the transformation of higher education/ Morten Levin and Davydd Greenwood; Action research, partnerships and social impacts - the institutional collaboration of PRIA and IDR/ L David Brown and Rajesh Tandon; Practices; Introduction to practices/ Peter Reason and Hilary Bradbury; Action inquiry - interweaving multiple qualities of attention for timely action/ William R Torbert and Steven S Taylor; Action science - linking causal theory and meaning making in action research/ Victor J Friedman and Tim Rogers; Clinical inquiry/research/ Edgar H Schein; The practice of appreciative inquiry/ James D Ludema and Ronald E Fry; PRA, PLA and pluralism - practice and theory/ Robert Chambers; Action learning/ Mike Pedler and John Burgoyne; The jury is out - how far can participatory projects go towards reclaiming democracy?/ Tom Wakeford with Jasber Singh, Bano Murtuja, Peter Bryant and Michel Pimbert; Learning history - an action research practice in support of actionable learning/ George Roth and Hilary Bradbury; Extending epistemology within a co-operative inquiry/ John Heron and Peter Reason; Action research in healthcare/ Ian Hughes; Action research on a large scale - issues and practices/ Ann W Martin; Theorizing audience, products and provocation/ Michelle Fine and Maria Elena Torre; Taking the action turn - lessons from bringing participation to qualitative research/ Sonia Ospina, Jennifer Dodge, Erica Gabrielle Foldy and Amparo Hofmann-Pinilla; Exemplars; Introduction to exemplars - varieties of action research/ Hilary Bradbury and Peter Reason; Charismatic inquiry in concert - action research in the realm of 'the between'/ John Heron and Gregg Lahood; Presentational knowing - bridging experience and expression with art, poetry and song/ Jennifer Mullett; Working with 'not knowing' amid power dynamics among managers - from faultfinding and exclusion towards co-learning and inclusion/ Marianne Kristiansen and Jørgen Bloch-Poulsen; Learning to love our black selves - healing from internalized oppressions/ Taj Johns; The tapestry of leadership - Lessons from six cooperative-inquiry groups of social justice leaders/ Lyle Yorks, Arnold Aprill, LaDon James, Anita Rees, Amparo Hoffman-Pinilla and Sonia Ospina; The workplace stress and aggression project - ways of knowing – our Rosetta Stone for practice/ Rita Kowalski, Lyle Yorks and Mariann Jelinek; Theatre in participatory action research - experiences from Bangladesh/ Meghna Guhathakurta; Changing the culture of dependency to allow for successful outcomes in participatory research - fourteen years of experience in Yucatan, Mexico/ María Teresa Castillo-Burguete, María Dolores Viga de Alva and Federico Dickinson; Health promotion and participatory action research - the significance of participatory praxis in developing participatory health intervention/ Lai Fong Chui; 'This is so democratic!!' - action research and policy development in East Timor/ Ernie Stringer; 'No - you don't know how we feel!" - collaborative inquiry using video with children facing the life-threatening illness of a parent/ Gillian Chowns; IT and action sensemaking - making sense of new technology/ Chris Dymek; Skills; Introduction to skills/ Peter Reason and Hilary Bradbury; Negotiating the challenges of participatory action research - relationships, power, participation, change and credibility/ Jill Grant, Geoff Nelson and Terry Mitchell; Getting in, getting on, getting out - on working with second-person inquiry groups/ Kate Louise McArdle; Facilitation as action research in the moment/ Jenny Mackewn; Muddling through - facing the challenges of managing a large-scale action research project/ Geoff Mead; Insider action research - the dynamics of developing new capabilities/ David Coghlan and A B (Rami) Shani; Teaching reflective practice in the action science/action inquiry tradition - key stages, concepts and practices/ Steven S Taylor, Jenny W Rudolph and Erica Gabrielle Foldy; The praxis of educating action researchers/ Morten Levin; Finding form in writing for action research/ Judi Marshall; and Concluding reflections - whither action research?/ Peter Reason and Hilary Bradbury  
Level Content-AudienceUndergraduate, Professional 
Subject Entry Action research - Handbooks and manuals
Participant observation - Handbooks and manuals
Research in the social sciences - Handbooks and manuals 
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