New Directions in Action Research

ISBN-13: 9780750705790 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 266 str.

Ortrun Zuber-Skerritt

Opis

This collection provides a worldwide perspective on action research, a process which covers educational, professional, managerial and organizational development. The editor views action research as a critical enquiry by practitioners into a major problem in their own practice.

Spis treści

Chapter 1. Some principles and procedures for the conduct of action research Chapter 2. Reflexivity in emancipatory action research - illustrating the researcher's constitutiveness Chapter 3. Got a philosophical match? does it matter? Chapter 4. Collaborative, self-critical and reciprocal inquiry through memory work Chapter 5. Emancipatory action research for management and organizational development Chapter 6. Towards empowering leadership - the importance of imagining Chapter 7. Emancipatory action research - a critical alternative to personnel development or a new way of patronizing people Chapter 8. Becoming critical of action research for development Chapter 9. Exposing discourses through action research Chapter 10. Managing change through action research - a postmodern perspective on appraisal Chapter 11. Emancipatory aspirations in a postmodern era Chapter 12. Issues for participatory action researchers

O autorze

Ortrun Zuber-Skerritt