Handbook of Action Research Participative Inquiry and Practice
نویسنده
چکیده
I do not separate my scientific inquiry from my life. For me it is really a quest for life, to understand life and to create what I call living knowledge—knowledge which is valid for the people with whom I work and for myself. MarjaLiisa Swantz Knowledge is always gained through action and for action. From this starting point, to question the validity of social knowledge is to question, not how to develop a reflective science about action, but how to develop genuinely wellinformed action—how to conduct an action science. I am not a social scientist interested in more participatory research, but an educator and activist exploring alternative paradigm research as one tool in the multifaceted struggles for a more just, loving world. Practical knowledge, knowing how, is the consummation, the fulfilment, of the knowledge quest... it affirms what is intrinsically worthwhile, human flourishing, by manifesting it in action. The aim of participatory action research is to change practices, social structures, and social media which maintain irrationality, injustice, and unsatisfying forms of existence. Participatory research is a process through which members of an oppressed group or community identify a problem, collect and analyse information, and act upon the problem in order to solutions and to promote social and political transformation. Action Research can help us build a better, freer society. We must keep on trying to understand better, change and reenchant our plural world. In this Introduction, we draw together some of the major threads that form the diverse practices of action research, to provide a framework through which the reader can approach this volume. We know that our readership is varied. You may be new to action research, wanting to know
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- EJIS
دوره 10 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2001