Emancipatory research challenges conventional ways in which knowledge is constructed within educational research. Using the Johanna Briggs methods, the authors conducted a systematic critical appraisal of the 45 quantitative emancipatory research articles published between 2000 and 2011 and provide a synthesis of findings. Type of studies, participants, and outcomes measure served as criteria f...

Information systems development methodologies have been the subject of much attention over the .years.. A substantial body of research has focused on the need to develop methodologies that support viewing information systems as social constructs, and information systems development (ISD) as a social process. But if development a social process, what principles~ideals should inform it? Recent re...

The paper aims to use insights from critical pedagogy to forge and exemplify links with the movement of educational inclusion. The struggles for change, theorised in terms of the emancipatory and liberating potential of schooling, set out the conceptual and analytical backdrop against which issues of exclusion and marginalisation are discussed and reflected upon. The emancipatory and transforma...

The domain and status of work or purposive-rational action in the writings of Jurgen Habermas is highly controversial. Some of his critics accuse him of abandoning the emancipatory potential of non-alienated labor, a central axiom of classic Marxism. This article analyzes his critics’ arguments before taking up the influential commentary of Axel Honneth. His arguments are of significance for ad...

This paper illustrates how the Emancipatory Structure within the StructurANTion theoretical framework may be called on by human and non-human actors to evoke radical change, even of the dissolution and replacement, of a humanchine network. This paper discusses the case of breast cancer surgery and the role information systems and technologies play in enabling this radical translation of an exis...

If one believes that systemic ruptural strategies of emancipatory transformation are not plausible, at least under existing historical conditions, then the only real alternative is some sort of strategy that envisions transformation largely as a process of metamorphosis in which relatively small transformations cumulatively generate a qualitative shift in the dynamics and logic of a social syst...

In this paper we explore buyers’ and sellers’ automobile transactions in traditional and electronic commerce (eCommerce) as forms of social action. By interpreting commercial transactions through the lens of a social-theoretic approach based on Habermas’ Theory of Communicative Action (TCA) (1984, 1987), we aim to find out and explain how the changing trade conditions of eCommerce impact on tra...