Action Research, Practice and Theory

Educing Theory from Practice: Developing Significant Theory from Action Research

The highly practical nature of action research sometimes leads to results that have little to contribute in terms of new scholarly knowledge. Although a difficult practical problem may have been resolved, academic publications will often reject reports of the results because the theoretical value is trivial. It appears necessary for IS theory, knowledge and methods to be selected and operationa...

Research and Practice in Applied Linguistics: Exploring Discourse in Context and in Action

Theory and Practice of Action Semantics

Action Semantics is a framework for the formal description of programming languages. Its main advantage over other frameworks is pragmatic: action-semantic descriptions (ASDs) scale up smoothly to realistic programming languages. This is due to the inherent extensibility and modifiability of ASDs, ensuring that extensions and changes to the described language require only proportionate changes ...

A Reflection on Research, Theory, Evidence-based Practice, and Quality Improvement

Ethics and feminist research: theory and practice

Ethics concerns the morality of human conduct. In relation to social research, it refers to the moral deliberation, choice and accountability on the part of researchers throughout the research process. General concern about ethics in social research has grown apace. In the UK, for example, from the late 1980s on, a number of professional associations developed and/or revised ethical declaration...