Action Research : From practice to writing in an international action research development program.
Title:
Action Research : From practice to writing in an international action research development program.
Author:
Greenwood, Davydd J.
ISBN:
9789027299390
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (290 pages)
Series:
Dialogues on Work and Innovation
Contents:
ACTION RESEARCH -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Contents -- Preface -- PART I -- Chapter 1. On the Design of the ACRES Program -- Chapter 2. Action Research Paradigms -- Chapter 3. Research in ACRES -- Chapter 4. Organizational Processes in ACRES -- Chapter 5. The Rhetoric of Action Research: Writing in the ACRES Program -- Chapter 6. The Rhetoric of Action Research: Views from ACRES Participants -- PART II -- Chapter 7. Applied Research or Action Research? Different or Complementary Methods -- Chapter 8. Linking Social Science Working Life Research and Work Reform: A Role for Universities -- Chapter 9. The Action Research Tradition in the United States -- Chapter 10. Bottom-up Organizational Change: The Segerström Case -- Chapter 11. Setting the Scene for Effective Dialogue Between Men and Women at Work -- Chapter 12. Do We Need a Gender Perspective in Action Research on Work Organizations? -- Chapter 13. Learning to Learn: Participatory Action Research in Public Schools -- Chapter 14. How About a Dialogue? The Communicative Perspective Meets the Socioecological Perspective -- References -- Subject Index -- Name Index -- the series DIALOGUES ON WORK AND INNOVATION.
Abstract:
Supported bilaterally by Sweden and Norway, the Scandinavian Action Research Development Program (ACRES - Action Research in Scandinavia) emphasized conceptualizing research questions and self-conscious writing processes for experienced action researchers. Participants came from Norway, Sweden, Finland, Holland, Great Britain, and the United States.A learning experiment in the tradition of Scandinavian industrial democracy, ACRES had both intellectual and organizational tensions common to action research projects. This book includes theoretical and historical overviews of action research, reflections on the writing process, narratives about the design and difficult internal processes of ACRES, and a selection of the participants' writings. A particularly unique feature of the book is the discussion of the problematic relationship between action research and conventional modes of research writing and an analysis of the complex social processes collaboratively managed projects create, in combination with a set of participant cases.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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