Introduction to action research
Subtitle: social research for social change
By: Davydd J. Greenwood, Morten Levin.
Contributors: Levin, Morten.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Sage Publications
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9781412925976
Subjects: Action research
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 266-277) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Action research, diversity, and democracy; title: A history of action research; title: Action research cases from practice : the stories of Stongfjorden, Mondragón, and programs for employment and workplace systems at Cornell University; title: An epistemological foundation for action research; title: Scientific method and action research; title: Social science research techniques, work forms, and research strategies in action research; title: Knowledge generation in action research : the dialectics of local knowledge and research-based knowledge; title: The friendly outsider : from AR as a research strategy to the skills needed to become an action researcher; title: Pragmatic action research; title: Power and social reform; title: Educational action research; title: Participatory evaluation; title: Participatory rural appraisal, rapid rural appraisal, and participatory learning and analysis; title: Varieties of human inquiry, collaborative, action, self-reflective, and cooperative; title: Action science and organizational learning; title: Educating action researchers; title: Action research, participation, and democratization.