The SAGE Handbook of Action Research

Hilary Bradbury

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Year: 2015
• ISBN:
  9781473927230
• Edition: 3
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Social Science Research & Methodology
• Index: Social Sciences

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

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Illustration List
• Table List
• Notes on the Editor and Contributors
• Introduction: How to Situate and Define Action Research
• Part I Practices
• 1 Introduction to Practices
• 2 The Practice of Learning History: Local and Open System Approaches
• 3 PRA, PLA and Pluralism: Practice and Theory
• 4 Developing the Practice of Leading Change Through Insider action Research: A Dynamic Capability Perspective
• 5 Innovations in Appreciative Inquiry: Critical Appreciative Inquiry with Excluded Pakistani Women
• 6 Collaborative Developmental Action Inquiry
• 7 Systematization of Experiences: A Practice of Participatory Research from Latin America
• 8 Empowerment Evaluation and Action Research: A Convergence of Values, Principles, and Purpose
• 9 Action Evaluation: An Action Research Practice for the Participative Definition, Monitoring, and Assessment of Success in Social Innovation and Conflict Engagement
• 10 Theatre in participatory action research: Experiences from Bangladesh
• 11 Using T-Groups to Develop Action Research Skills in Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous Environments
• 12 The Action Research Practice of Urban Planning – An Example from Hong Kong
• 13 The Artistry of Emancipatory Practice: Photovoice, Creative Techniques, and Feminist Anti-Racist Participatory Action Research
• 14 Action Science Revisited: Building Knowledge Out of Practice to Transform Practice
• 15 Systemic Intervention
• 16 Community-Based Participatory Research with Communities Defined by Race, Ethnicity, and Disability: Translating Theory to Practice
• 17 Action Learning
• 18 The Network Leadership Innovation Lab: A Practice for Social Change
• 19 Awareness-Based Action Research: Catching Social Reality Creation in Flight
• 20 The World Café in Action Research Settings
• 21 Ethnographic Action Research: Media, Information and Communicative Ecologies for Development Initiatives
• 22 Re-Fashioning Citizens’ Juries: Participatory Democracy in Action
• 23 The Practice of Helping Students to Find Their First Person Voice in Creating Living-Theories for Education
• 24 The Practice of Teaching Co-Operative Inquiry
• Part II Exemplars
• 25 Introduction to Exemplars
• 26 Symbiosis of Action Research and Deliberative Democracy in the Context of Participatory Constitution-Making
• 27 Action Research in Universities and Higher Education Worldwide
• 28 ‘I'm Not Afraid of Him; That Dog Barks But He Don't Bite'. PAR Processes, Gender Equity and Emancipation with Women in Yucatán, Mexico1
• 29 Insurgent Inquiry: Connecting Action Research, Impact Evaluation, and Global Strategy in a Rights-Based International Development NGO
• 30 Action Research with Marginalized Immigrants’ Coming to Voice: Twenty Years of Social Movement Support in Taiwan and Still Going
• 31 Improving Health and Well-being: Researching Alongside Marginalized People Across Diverse Domains
• 32 After a Decade of Action Research: Impactful Systems Improvement in Swedish Healthcare
• 33 Action Research as a Transformative Force in Management Education: Introducing the Collaboratory
• 34 Achieving Equity in Education
• Part III Groundings
• 35 Introduction to Groundings
• 36 Praxis – Retrieving the Roots of Action Research
• 37 Core Issues in Modern Epistemology for Action Researchers: Dancing Between Knower and Known
• 38 Social Construction and Research as Action
• 39 How to Succeed in Action Research without Really Acting: Tracing the Development of Action Research to Constructivist Practice in Organizational Worklife
• 40 Organization Development: Action Research for Organizational Change
• 41 Evolutionary Systems Thinking: What Gregory Bateson, Kurt Lewin, and Jacob Moreno Offered to Action Research that Still Remains to be Learned
• 42 How Change Happens: The Implications of Complexity and Systems Thinking for Action Research
• 43 Complex Systems and Emergence in Action Research
• 44 Critical Theory and Critical Participatory Action Research
• 45 Power and Knowledge
• 46 Research, Participation and Social Transformation: Grounding Systematization of Experiences in Latin American Perspectives
• 47 Knowledge Democracy, Community-based Action Research, the Global South and the Excluded North
• 48 Participatory Action Research: Its Origins and Future in Women's Ways
• 49 The Location of Race in Action Research
• 50 Sex and Sensibilities: Doing Action Research while Respecting even Inspiring Dignity
• 51 Crowdsourcing and Action Research. Fostering People's Participation in Research through Digital Media
• 52 Naturally Emerging Regulation and the Danger of Delegitimizing Conventional Leadership: Drawing on the Example of Wikipedia
• 53 Action Research in an Online World
• 54 Large Scale Change Action Research1
• 55 Companions to Action Research: Reaching Beyond our Networks to Build Alignments and a Common Repository of Resources
• 56 Action Research and Ecological Practice
• 57 Ecofeminism and Systems Thinking: Shared Ethics of Care for Action Research
• 58 The Integrating (Feminine) Reach of Action Research: A Nonet for Epistemological Voice
• 59 Expanding Reach and Justice with PAR: Working with More than Humans
• Part IV Skills
• 60 Introduction to Skills
• 61 Widening the Circle: Ethical Reflection in Action Research and the Practice of Structured Ethical Reflection
• 62 The Skillful Means of Engaged Research
• 63 Feelings in First Person Action Research
• 64 Clearing Obstacles: An Exercise to Expand a Person's Repertoire of Action
• 65 A Cross-Cultural Approach with East-Asian Epistemology: Developing Soft Skills in Action Research
• 66 Cultivating Intention (As we Enter the Fray): The Skillful Practice of Embodying Presence, Awareness, and Purpose as Action Researchers
• 67 Holding Theory Skillfully in Consulting Interventions
• 68 You Better Check Your Method Before You Wreck Your Method: Challenging and Transforming Photovoice
• 69 Discovering Philosophical Assumptions that Guide Action Research: The Reflexive Toolbox Approach
• 70 Radical Epistemology as Caffeine for Social Change
• 71 Mediated Dialogue in Action Research
• 72 Teaching the Heart of Action Research Skills: Breaking Free in the Classroom
• 73 Practice of Mindful Intuition: Bi-directional Openness: The Skill of Expressing and Sensing Leadership that Serves a Group
• 74 Designerly Ways for Action Research
• 75 Nurturing Creative Destruction: Bringing Management Mindsets and Influence Skillsets to Health Care
• 76 Teaching and Learning Reflective Practice in the Action Science/Action Inquiry Tradition
• 77 From Research ‘on’ to Research ‘with': Developing Skills for Research with Sex Workers
• 78 Shared Inquiry Capabilities and Differing Inquiry Preferences: Navigating ‘Full Cycle’ Iterations of Action Research
• 79 Unlocking the Secrets of Personal and Systemic Power: The Power Lab and Action Inquiry in the Classroom
• Index