The SAGE Handbook of Action ResearchHilary Bradbury 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. |
Contents
How to Situate and Define Action Research | 1 |
Part I Practices | 11 |
Chapter 1 Introduction to Practices | 13 |
Local and Open System Approaches | 17 |
Practice and Theory | 31 |
A Dynamic Capability Perspective | 47 |
Critical Appreciative Inquiry with Excluded Pakistani Women | 55 |
Chapter 6 Collaborative Developmental Action Inquiry | 64 |
Action Research for Organizational Change | 417 |
What Gregory Bateson Kurt Lewin and Jacob Moreno Offered to Action Research that Still Remains to be Learned | 425 |
The Implications of Complexity and Systems Thinking for Action Research | 434 |
Chapter 43 Complex Systems and Emergence in Action Research | 446 |
Chapter 44 Critical Theory and Critical Participatory Action Research | 453 |
Chapter 45 Power and Knowledge | 465 |
Grounding Systematization of Experiences in Latin American Perspectives | 472 |
Chapter 47 Knowledge Democracy Communitybased Action Research the Global South and the Excluded North | 481 |
A Practice of Participatory Research from Latin America | 76 |
A Convergence of Values Principles and Purpose | 83 |
An Action Research Practice for the Participative Definition Monitoring and Assessment of Success in Social Innovation and Conflict Engagement | 90 |
Experiences from Bangladesh | 100 |
Chapter 11 Using TGroups to Develop Action Research Skills in Volatile Uncertain Complex and Ambiguous Environments | 109 |
Chapter 12 The Action Research Practice of Urban Planning An Example from Hong Kong | 118 |
Photovoice Creative Techniques and Feminist AntiRacist Participatory Action Research | 131 |
Building Knowledge Out of Practice to Transform Practice | 143 |
Chapter 15 Systemic Intervention | 157 |
Translating Theory to Practice | 167 |
Chapter 17 Action Learning | 179 |
A Practice for Social Change | 188 |
Catching Social Reality Creation in Flight | 199 |
Chapter 20 The World Café in Action Research Settings | 211 |
Media Information and Communicative Ecologies for Development Initiatives | 220 |
Participatory Democracy in Action | 230 |
Chapter 23 The Practice of Helping Students to Find Their First Person Voice in Creating LivingTheories for Education | 247 |
Chapter 24 The Practice of Teaching CoOperative Inquiry | 256 |
Part II Exemplars | 265 |
Chapter 25 Introduction to Exemplars | 267 |
Chapter 26 Symbiosis of Action Research and Deliberative Democracy in the Context of Participatory ConstitutionMaking | 270 |
Chapter 27 Action Research in Universities and Higher Education Worldwide | 281 |
Chapter 28 Im Not Afraid of Him That Dog Barks But He Dont Bite PAR Processes Gender Equity and Emancipation with Women in Yucatán Mexico | 291 |
Connecting Action Research Impact Evaluation and Global Strategy in a RightsBased International Development NGO | 301 |
Twenty Years of Social Movement Support in Taiwan and Still Going | 315 |
Researching Alongside Marginalized People Across Diverse Domains | 325 |
Impactful Systems Improvement in Swedish Healthcare | 337 |
Introducing the Collaboratory | 351 |
Chapter 34 Achieving Equity in Education | 362 |
Part III Groundings | 375 |
Chapter 35 Introduction to Groundings | 377 |
Chapter 36 Praxis Retrieving the Roots of Action Research | 381 |
Dancing Between Knower and Known | 392 |
Chapter 38 Social Construction and Research as Action | 401 |
Tracing the Development of Action Research to Constructivist Practice in Organizational Worklife | 409 |
Its Origins and Future in Womens Ways | 489 |
Chapter 49 The Location of Race in Action Research | 497 |
Doing Action Research while Respecting even Inspiring Dignity | 505 |
Chapter 51 Crowdsourcing and Action Research Fostering Peoples Participation in Research through Digital Media | 512 |
Drawing on the Example of Wikipedia | 522 |
Chapter 53 Action Research in an Online World | 529 |
Chapter 54 Large Scale Change Action Research | 536 |
Reaching Beyond our Networks to Build Alignments and a Common Repository of Resources | 547 |
Chapter 56 Action Research and Ecological Practice | 553 |
Shared Ethics of Care for Action Research | 564 |
A Nonet for Epistemological Voice | 573 |
Working with More than Humans | 583 |
Part IV Skills | 591 |
Chapter 60 Introduction to Skills | 593 |
Ethical Reflection in Action Research and the Practice of Structured Ethical Reflection | 596 |
Chapter 62 The Skillful Means of Engaged Research | 608 |
Chapter 63 Feelings in First Person Action Research | 619 |
An Exercise to Expand a Persons Repertoire of Action | 626 |
Developing Soft Skills in Action Research | 636 |
The Skillful Practice of Embodying Presence Awareness and Purpose as Action Researchers | 643 |
Chapter 67 Holding Theory Skillfully in Consulting Interventions | 653 |
Challenging and Transforming Photovoice | 665 |
The Reflexive Toolbox Approach | 673 |
Chapter 70 Radical Epistemology as Caffeine for Social Change | 681 |
Chapter 71 Mediated Dialogue in Action Research | 691 |
Breaking Free in the Classroom | 700 |
Bidirectional Openness The Skill of Expressing and Sensing Leadership that Serves a Group | 708 |
Chapter 74 Designerly Ways for Action Research | 716 |
Bringing Management Mindsets and Influence Skillsets to Health Care | 724 |
Chapter 76 Teaching and Learning Reflective Practice in the Action ScienceAction Inquiry Tradition | 732 |
Developing Skills for Research with Sex Workers | 742 |
Navigating Full Cycle Iterations of Action Research | 750 |
The Power Lab and Action Inquiry in the Classroom | 760 |
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