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ISBN-13 :  9781483389370

Author: Davydd Greenwood, Morten Levin 

The Second Edition of Introduction to Action Research: Social Research for Social Change makes social science matter! It focuses on how it is possible to combine practical problem solving with generating new theoretical insights. Authors Davydd J. Greenwood and Morten Levin combine a thorough discussion of the epistemological foundations of action research with a broad overview of major contemporary trends in the field. New to the Second Edition:   Includes a vast amount of updated information: Nine chapters have been significantly updated, including two new chapters that engage readers into the current debates on action research as “tradition” or its own “methodology,” and how action research takes shape in the university environment. New textboxes highlight important issues in each chapter and more detailed cases and real-world examples illustrate the practical implications of AR in a variety of settings. Incorporates a new structure: New information pertains specifically to issues of techniques, work forms, and research strategies based on the authors’ experiences in using the book in teaching. The book now has 4 parts instead of 3, with an entirely new section on higher education and democracy as a concluding section. Emphasizes the skill sets needed to do action research: This book deals with the process of educating action researchers and reviews a number of programs that do this. Specific attention is given to the challenges of writing and intellectual property in AR, and more focus is devoted to both adult and formal education, creating a comprehensive overview of the field that is not found in any other action research book. Intended Audience:   This is an excellent textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in Action Research, Social Research, and Qualitative Research across the social sciences.

Introduction to Action Research Social Research for Social Change 2nd Table of contents:

PART 1: WHAT IS ACTION RESEARCH?
1. Introduction: Action Research, Diversity, and Democracy
Action Research Defined
Why General Overviews of Action Research Are Hard to Find
Action Research, Applied Research, and Qualitative Versus Quantitative Research
Action, Research, and Participation
Action Research, the Disciplines, and Coverage
Our Take on AR: Pragmatic Action Research
The Plan of the Book
Our Assumptions About the Readers of This Book
Notes
2. A History of Action Research
Industrial Democracy
“Southern” PAR, Labor Organizing, Community Organizing, and Civil Rights
Human Inquiry and Cooperative Inquiry
Conclusions
Notes
3 Action Research Cases From Practice: The Stories of Stongfjorden, Mondragón, and Programs for Employment and Workplace Systems at Cornell University
Stongfjorden: Village Development in Western Norway
Mondragón: Organizational Problems in Industrial Cooperatives
Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations: Research and Extension
Conclusions
Notes
PART 2: SCIENCE, EPISTEMOLOGY, AND PRACTICE IN ACTION RESEARCH
4. An Epistemological Foundation for Action Research
Defining Scientific Research
General Systems Theory
Pragmatic Philosophy and Action Research
Epistemological Foundations of Action Research
The Action Research Inquiry Process Is Thus Inevitably Linked to Action
Credibility and Validity in Action Research Inquiry
Readdressing the Action Research Processes
Political Economy and the Social Structure of Science
Conclusions
Notes
5. Scientific Method and Action Research
Can Action Research Produce Scientifically Meaningful Results?
Physical and Biological Science as Iterative Cycles of Thought and Action
Science Is Humans in Action
Conclusions
Notes
6. Social Science Research Techniques, Work Forms, and Research Strategies in Action Research
Conventional Social Research and Action Research
The Cogenerative Model
Action Research Is Not Merely “Qualitative Research”
Workability and Explanation
Conclusions
Note
7. Knowledge Generation in Action Research: The Dialectics of Local Knowledge and Research-Based Knowledge
Local Knowledge and Professional Social Science Research Knowledge
The Knowledge Generation Process
Writing Up Action Research
Conclusions
8. The Friendly Outsider: From AR as a Research Strategy to the Skills Needed to Become an Action Researcher
Not Trying to Overcome an Unruly World
Creating Possibilities Rather Than Reinforcing Limits
Linking Theory and Local Understanding: Being Scientific, Counterintuitive, and Technically Competent
Practices and Skills of the Action Researcher
The Friendly Outsider
Becoming an Action Researcher
Conclusions
Note
PART 3: VARIETIES OF ACTION RESEARCH PRAXIS: LIBERATING HUMAN POTENTIAL
9. Pragmatic Action Research
Constructing Arenas for Dialogue
Searching
Preparing for the Search
Planning and Executing a Search
Conclusions
Notes
10. Power and Social Reform: Southern PAR, Education, Feminism, and Action Research
Participatory Research and Southern PAR
Educational Strategies
Feminist Analyses of Inequality and Development
Conclusions
Notes
11. Educational Action Research
Frameworks
Reforming Education in the North
Adult Education Approaches in Industrialized Countries
Corporate Classrooms
Adult Education and Community Development
Conclusions
Notes
12. Participatory Evaluation
The Authority of Evaluation
The Emergence of Participatory Evaluation
Modes of Participatory Evaluation
Action Research in Evaluation Practice
Conclusions
13 Participatory Rural Appraisal, Rapid Rural Appraisal, and Participatory Learning and Analysis
Participatory Rural Appraisal in International Development
Participation and Sustainability
The Specifics of Participatory Rural Appraisal
Critiques of Participatory Rural Appraisal
Participatory Rural Appraisal and Action Research
Conclusions
Notes
14. Varieties of Human Inquiry: Collaborative, Action, Self-Reflective, and Cooperative
Central Perspectives
Human Inquiry
Action Inquiry and Self-Reflective Inquiry
Cooperative Inquiry
Conclusions
15. Action Science and Organizational Learning
Action Science
Organizational Learning
The Skills Required for Action Science and Organizational Learning
Conclusions
Notes
PART 4: ACTION RESEARCH, HIGHER EDUCATION, AND DEMOCRACY
16. Educating Action Researchers
General Considerations
AR Praxis in Higher Education
Some Possibilities for Current Undergraduate AR Teaching
Ph.D. Training in Action Research
Situating Action Research Within the University
Conclusions
Note
17. Action Research, Participation, and Democratization
Participation
Democratization
Venues for Participation and Democratization
Conclusions: Action Research and Democratic Processes

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