This is one of a number of articles that engage with this perspective. This is a readable snapshot of Winter's perspective. This somewhat dense book explores the theoretical underpinning to action-research and its analytic capacities against those of positivism. Winter promotes a reflexive action research which treats 'action' and 'research' or 'theory' and 'practice' dialectically and which is sensitive to context. Principles and Practice in Action-Research , Falmer.
Winter discusses and describes the reasons for and process of action research.
His outline of 'six principles for the conduct of action-research' is useful both in terms of a theoretical rationale for action research and for implementation procedures. Exploration is based on case studies in higher education in Australia. Producing reflective lecturers, the author urges, is about involving them in the process of identifying, analysing and solving the problems they confront themselves rather than presenting them with research done by others. There is no neat sequential process in action research. All theorists of action-research offer models based on spirals or cycles in which thinking, doing and watching are interwoven and repeated throughout the research activity.