The SAGE Encyclopedia of Action Research

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The SAGE Encyclopedia of Action Research
August 2014 | 904 pages | Sage UK
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Action research is a term used to describe a family of related approaches that integrate theory and action with a goal of addressing important organizational, community, and social issues together with those who experience them. It focuses on the creation of areas for collaborative learning and the design, enactment and evaluation of liberating actions through combining action and research, reflection and action in an ongoing cycle of cogenerative knowledge. While the roots of these methodologies go back to the 1940s, there has been a dramatic increase in research output and adoption in university curricula over the past decade. This is now an area of high popularity among academics and researchers from various fields — especially business and organization studies, education, health care, nursing, development studies, and social and community work. This encyclopedia brings together the many strands of action research and addresses the interplay between these disciplines by presenting a state-of-the-art overview and comprehensive breakdown of the key tenets and methods of action research as well as detailing the work of key theorists and contributors to action research.

Contents

Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

Cycles of Action & Reflection

Cycles of Action & Reflection

Labor Managed Firms

Labor Managed Firms

Higher Education/Formal Educational Settings

Higher Education/Formal Educational Settings

Mondragon Cooperative Corporation

Mondragon Cooperative Corporation

Critical Reflection

Critical Reflection

Taylorism

Taylorism

Practitioner Inquiry

Practitioner Inquiry

Bakhtinian dialogism

Bakhtinian dialogism

Bildung

Bildung

Heteroglossia

Heteroglossia

Authenticity

Authenticity

Clinical Inquiry/Research

Clinical Inquiry/Research

Insider Action Research

Insider Action Research

Organization Development

Organization Development

Process Consultation

Process Consultation

Action Learning

Action Learning

Critical Action Learning

Critical Action Learning

Praxeology

Praxeology

Soft Systems Methodology

Soft Systems Methodology

Communities of Inquiry

Communities of Inquiry

Citizen Participation

Citizen Participation

Action Science

Action Science

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Computer-based Instruction

Computer-based Instruction

Society for Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA)

Society for Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA)

Development Coalitions 

Development Coalitions 

Participatory Rapid Appraisal

Participatory Rapid Appraisal

Women's Political Participation

Women's Political Participation

Action Anthropology

Action Anthropology

Strategic Planning

Strategic Planning

Bateson, Gregory

Bateson, Gregory

Comprehensive District Planning

Comprehensive District Planning

Participatory Monitoring

Participatory Monitoring

Integrating Grounded Theory and Action Research

Integrating Grounded Theory and Action Research

Social Audit

Social Audit

Critical Realism

Critical Realism

Collaborative Action Research

Collaborative Action Research

Participatory Governance

Participatory Governance

PAR

PAR

Complexity Theory

Complexity Theory

Social Justice

Social Justice

Tavistock Institute

Tavistock Institute

Antigonish Movement

Antigonish Movement

HIV Prevention and Support

HIV Prevention and Support

Confucian Principles and AR

Confucian Principles and AR

Feminist Ethics

Feminist Ethics

Fishbone Diagrams/Ishikawa Diagrams

Fishbone Diagrams/Ishikawa Diagrams

Workers' Participation in Occupational Health and Safety

Workers' Participation in Occupational Health and Safety

Community Design Centers

Community Design Centers

Toulmin, Stephen

Toulmin, Stephen

Social Accountability

Social Accountability

Covenantal Ethics

Covenantal Ethics

Citizen Report Card

Citizen Report Card

Whyte, William Foote

Whyte, William Foote

Focus Groups

Focus Groups

CPARN Cornell Participatory Action Research Network

CPARN Cornell Participatory Action Research Network

Microplanning

Microplanning

Capacity Building

Capacity Building

Grounded Theory

Grounded Theory

Voluntary Sector

Voluntary Sector

Multistakeholder Dialogues

Multistakeholder Dialogues

International Participatory Research Network

International Participatory Research Network

Intersubjectivity

Intersubjectivity

Horton, Myles

Horton, Myles

Criminal Justice Systems

Criminal Justice Systems

Pragmatism

Pragmatism

Local Self Governance

Local Self Governance

Bricolage Process

Bricolage Process

Reflective Practice

Reflective Practice

Classroom-based Action Research

Classroom-based Action Research

Two Column Technique

Two Column Technique

Health Education

Health Education

Action Evaluation

Action Evaluation

Conflict Management

Conflict Management

Ethics Protocols/IRB/Human Subjects Review

Ethics Protocols/IRB/Human Subjects Review

Health Promotion

Health Promotion

Socio-technical systems

Socio-technical systems

Systems psychodynamics

Systems psychodynamics

Online Action Research

Online Action Research

Convergent interviewing

Convergent interviewing

Generalizability

Generalizability

Transferability

Transferability

Validity (external, internal, etc)

Validity (external, internal, etc)

Cognitive Mapping

Cognitive Mapping

Organizational Culture

Organizational Culture

Agency

Agency

Positionality

Positionality

Voice

Voice

World Congresses of Action Research

World Congresses of Action Research

Advocacy/Inquiry

Advocacy/Inquiry

Ladder of Inference

Ladder of Inference

World Café

World Café

Liberation Psychology

Liberation Psychology

Empowerment

Empowerment

Work Research Institutes

Work Research Institutes

Gonogobeshona

Gonogobeshona

Critical Friend

Critical Friend

Photovoice/Photonovella

Photovoice/Photonovella

CCPH (Community Campus Partnerships for Health)

CCPH (Community Campus Partnerships for Health)

Feminist Action Research

Feminist Action Research

Performed Ethnography

Performed Ethnography

Action Research as Meta-methodology

Action Research as Meta-methodology

Health Care

Health Care

Feminism

Feminism

Practice Development

Practice Development

Information Systems and Action Research

Information Systems and Action Research

Integrating ICT and Organisational Change

Integrating ICT and Organisational Change

Office of Community-Based Research

Office of Community-Based Research

Agricultural (food security)

Agricultural (food security)

Community University Partnership Programme

Community University Partnership Programme

Aboriginal Research(OCAP Principles--Ownership, control, access and possession Indigenous research methods)

Aboriginal Research(OCAP Principles--Ownership, control, access and possession Indigenous research methods)

Learning Window

Learning Window

Tempered Radical

Tempered Radical

Social Movement Learning

Social Movement Learning

Technical Action Research

Technical Action Research

Dialogic Inquiry

Dialogic Inquiry

Communities of Practice

Communities of Practice

Double Loop Learning

Double Loop Learning

Theories of Action

Theories of Action

Digital Storytelling/Participatory Video

Digital Storytelling/Participatory Video

Freire, Paulo

Freire, Paulo

Qualimetrics Intervention-Research

Qualimetrics Intervention-Research

Data Analysis

Data Analysis

Teaching Action Researchers

Teaching Action Researchers

Ethnography

Ethnography

Highlander Research and Education Center

Highlander Research and Education Center

Youth Participatory Action Research

Youth Participatory Action Research

Frankfurt School

Frankfurt School

Marxism

Marxism

Alinsky, Saul

Alinsky, Saul

Community Development

Community Development

Ladder of Citizen Participation

Ladder of Citizen Participation

Critical Race Theory

Critical Race Theory

Project Management

Project Management

Identity

Identity

Grameen Bank

Grameen Bank

Dewey, John

Dewey, John

Research Circles

Research Circles

Living Life as Inquiry

Living Life as Inquiry

Rigour

Rigour

Hermeneutics

Hermeneutics

Center for AR in Professional Practice

Center for AR in Professional Practice

Educational Action Research

Educational Action Research

Boal, Augusto

Boal, Augusto

Third Person Inquiry/Practice

Third Person Inquiry/Practice

International Council for Adult Education

International Council for Adult Education

Community University Research Partnerships

Community University Research Partnerships

Evaluative Inquiry

Evaluative Inquiry

Listening Guide

Listening Guide

Lewin, Kurt

Lewin, Kurt

Community Mapping

Community Mapping

Asset-based Community Development

Asset-based Community Development

Experiential Learning

Experiential Learning

Martin-Baro, Ignacio

Martin-Baro, Ignacio

First-Person Action Research

First-Person Action Research

Nursing

Nursing

Critical Reference Group

Critical Reference Group

Ontology

Ontology

Critical Pedagogy

Critical Pedagogy

Chataway, Cynthia

Chataway, Cynthia

Arts-based Action Research

Arts-based Action Research

Knowledge Mobilization

Knowledge Mobilization

Participatory Rural Appraisal

Participatory Rural Appraisal

Second Person (inquiring in groups, one-to-one skills, large group…)

Second Person (inquiring in groups, one-to-one skills, large group…)

Participatory Design Programming

Participatory Design Programming

Global Alliance of Community Engaged Scholarship

Global Alliance of Community Engaged Scholarship

Engaged Scholarship

Engaged Scholarship

Asset Mapping

Asset Mapping

Phenomenology

Phenomenology

Transpersonal Inquiry

Transpersonal Inquiry

Concept Mapping

Concept Mapping

Participatory Theatre

Participatory Theatre

Mindful Inquiry

Mindful Inquiry

Ubuntu

Ubuntu

Tacit Knowledge

Tacit Knowledge

Community Based Participatory Research

Community Based Participatory Research

dian marino

dian marino

Participatory Disaster Management

Participatory Disaster Management

Dialogue

Dialogue

Intervention Research

Intervention Research

Theatre of the Oppressed

Theatre of the Oppressed

Citizensâ?? Juries

Citizensâ?? Juries

Living Theories

Living Theories

New Product Development

New Product Development

Operations Management

Operations Management

LGBTQ

LGBTQ

Humanism

Humanism

Narrative Inquiry

Narrative Inquiry

Ethics

Ethics

Swedish “Dig Where You Stand” Movement

Swedish “Dig Where You Stand” Movement

Experiential Knowing

Experiential Knowing

Critical Utopian Action Research

Critical Utopian Action Research

Extended Epistemology(knowing what/knowing how)

Extended Epistemology(knowing what/knowing how)

Learning History

Learning History

Collaborative Management Research

Collaborative Management Research

Action Turn, The

Action Turn, The

Participatory Budgeting

Participatory Budgeting

Learning Pathways

Learning Pathways

Sustainability

Sustainability

Journaling

Journaling

Dis/ability Organizations/Movement

Dis/ability Organizations/Movement

Aesthetics

Aesthetics

Action Research in Large groups

Action Research in Large groups

Descriptive Review

Descriptive Review

Systems Thinking

Systems Thinking

Jipemoyo Project

Jipemoyo Project

Cooperative Inquiry

Cooperative Inquiry

Evaluation Methodologies

Evaluation Methodologies

Collaborative Action Research Network (CARN)

Collaborative Action Research Network (CARN)

Autobiography

Autobiography

Narrative

Narrative

Maya Women of Chajul

Maya Women of Chajul

Organizational Storytelling

Organizational Storytelling

Discourse Analysis

Discourse Analysis

Vivencias (life-experiences, and interactions between these and theory and practice)

Vivencias (life-experiences, and interactions between these and theory and practice)

Supervising Action Research Theses and Dissertations

Supervising Action Research Theses and Dissertations

Postmodernism

Postmodernism

Liberation Theology

Liberation Theology

Co-Generated Learning

Co-Generated Learning

Regional Development

Regional Development

Facilitation

Facilitation

Theological action research

Theological action research

Pragmatic Action Research

Pragmatic Action Research

Appreciative Inquiry and Corporate Sustainability

Appreciative Inquiry and Corporate Sustainability

Participatory Evaluation

Participatory Evaluation

Academic Discourse (Posititioning AR within different forms of writing)

Academic Discourse (Posititioning AR within different forms of writing)

Hegemony

Hegemony

Metaphor

Metaphor

Dialogue Conferences

Dialogue Conferences

Social Constructionism

Social Constructionism

Post-Colonial Theory

Post-Colonial Theory

Interviews

Interviews

Strengths-Based Theory and Practice

Strengths-Based Theory and Practice

Oral Histories

Oral Histories

Maori Epistemologies

Maori Epistemologies

Role of a non-Indigenous Ally

Role of a non-Indigenous Ally

Hawaiian Epistemology

Hawaiian Epistemology

Design Research

Design Research

Storytelling

Storytelling

Subalternity

Subalternity

Fals Borda, Orlando

Fals Borda, Orlando

Map Making

Map Making

Systemic Action Research

Systemic Action Research

Work-Family Interventions

Work-Family Interventions

Indigenous Research Methods

Indigenous Research Methods

Phronesis

Phronesis

Praxis

Praxis

Techne

Techne

Constructivism

Constructivism

Human Rights

Human Rights

Quantitative Methods

Quantitative Methods

Interactive Research

Interactive Research

Communitarianism

Communitarianism

RIB (Research Initiatives Bangladesh)

RIB (Research Initiatives Bangladesh)

Work-Based learning

Work-Based learning

Critical Constructivism

Critical Constructivism

Environment and Climate Change

Environment and Climate Change

Folkschool Movement

Folkschool Movement

Heutogogy

Heutogogy

Social Learning Theory

Social Learning Theory

Appreciative Intelligence

Appreciative Intelligence

Critical Participatory Action Research

Critical Participatory Action Research

Indigenist Research

Indigenist Research

Activity Theory

Activity Theory

Institute of Development Studies

Institute of Development Studies

Philosophy of Science

Philosophy of Science

Gadamer, Hans-Georg

Gadamer, Hans-Georg

Interorganizational Action Research

Interorganizational Action Research

Stakeholder Analysis

Stakeholder Analysis

Conscientisation/Critical Consciousness

Conscientisation/Critical Consciousness

Community-based Research

Community-based Research

Dissertation Writing

Dissertation Writing

Adult Education

Adult Education

Appreciative Inquiry and Research Methodology 

Appreciative Inquiry and Research Methodology 

Appreciative Inquiry

Appreciative Inquiry

Symbolic Interactionism

Symbolic Interactionism

Gender Issues

Gender Issues

Norwegian Industrial Democracy Movement

Norwegian Industrial Democracy Movement

Epistemology

Epistemology

Search Conference

Search Conference

Emery, Fred

Emery, Fred

Anti-Oppression Research Practices

Anti-Oppression Research Practices

Community Dialogue

Community Dialogue

Participatory Learning and Action

Participatory Learning and Action

Kincheloe, Joe

Kincheloe, Joe

Participatory Urban Planning

Participatory Urban Planning

Noffke, Susan

Noffke, Susan

Positive Organizational Scholarship and Appreciative Inquiry

Positive Organizational Scholarship and Appreciative Inquiry

Subaltern Studies

Subaltern Studies

Transformative Learning

Transformative Learning

Nielsen, Kurt Aagaard

Nielsen, Kurt Aagaard

Islam and Action Research

Islam and Action Research

Argyris, Chris

Argyris, Chris

Schön, Donald

Schön, Donald

Karma Theory

Karma Theory

Field Theory

Field Theory

Quality

Quality

Collaborative Developmental Action Inquiry

Collaborative Developmental Action Inquiry

Relational-Cultural Theory

Relational-Cultural Theory

Jewish Belief, Thought and Practice

Jewish Belief, Thought and Practice

Environmental Justice

Environmental Justice

Description

Action research is a term used to describe a family of related approaches that integrate theory and action with a goal of addressing important organizational, community, and social issues together with those who experience them. It focuses on the creation of areas for collaborative learning and the design, enactment and evaluation of liberating actions through combining action and research, reflection and action in an ongoing cycle of cogenerative knowledge. While the roots of these methodologies go back to the 1940s, there has been a dramatic increase in research output and adoption in university curricula over the past decade. This is now an area of high popularity among academics and researchers from various fields — especially business and organization studies, education, health care, nursing, development studies, and social and community work. This encyclopedia brings together the many strands of action research and addresses the interplay between these disciplines by presenting a state-of-the-art overview and comprehensive breakdown of the key tenets and methods of action research as well as detailing the work of key theorists and contributors to action research.

Contents

Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

Cycles of Action & Reflection

Cycles of Action & Reflection

Labor Managed Firms

Labor Managed Firms

Higher Education/Formal Educational Settings

Higher Education/Formal Educational Settings

Mondragon Cooperative Corporation

Mondragon Cooperative Corporation

Critical Reflection

Critical Reflection

Taylorism

Taylorism

Practitioner Inquiry

Practitioner Inquiry

Bakhtinian dialogism

Bakhtinian dialogism

Bildung

Bildung

Heteroglossia

Heteroglossia

Authenticity

Authenticity

Clinical Inquiry/Research

Clinical Inquiry/Research

Insider Action Research

Insider Action Research

Organization Development

Organization Development

Process Consultation

Process Consultation

Action Learning

Action Learning

Critical Action Learning

Critical Action Learning

Praxeology

Praxeology

Soft Systems Methodology

Soft Systems Methodology

Communities of Inquiry

Communities of Inquiry

Citizen Participation

Citizen Participation

Action Science

Action Science

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Computer-based Instruction

Computer-based Instruction

Society for Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA)

Society for Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA)

Development Coalitions 

Development Coalitions 

Participatory Rapid Appraisal

Participatory Rapid Appraisal

Women's Political Participation

Women's Political Participation

Action Anthropology

Action Anthropology

Strategic Planning

Strategic Planning

Bateson, Gregory

Bateson, Gregory

Comprehensive District Planning

Comprehensive District Planning

Participatory Monitoring

Participatory Monitoring

Integrating Grounded Theory and Action Research

Integrating Grounded Theory and Action Research

Social Audit

Social Audit

Critical Realism

Critical Realism

Collaborative Action Research

Collaborative Action Research

Participatory Governance

Participatory Governance

PAR

PAR

Complexity Theory

Complexity Theory

Social Justice

Social Justice

Tavistock Institute

Tavistock Institute

Antigonish Movement

Antigonish Movement

HIV Prevention and Support

HIV Prevention and Support

Confucian Principles and AR

Confucian Principles and AR

Feminist Ethics

Feminist Ethics

Fishbone Diagrams/Ishikawa Diagrams

Fishbone Diagrams/Ishikawa Diagrams

Workers' Participation in Occupational Health and Safety

Workers' Participation in Occupational Health and Safety

Community Design Centers

Community Design Centers

Toulmin, Stephen

Toulmin, Stephen

Social Accountability

Social Accountability

Covenantal Ethics

Covenantal Ethics

Citizen Report Card

Citizen Report Card

Whyte, William Foote

Whyte, William Foote

Focus Groups

Focus Groups

CPARN Cornell Participatory Action Research Network

CPARN Cornell Participatory Action Research Network

Microplanning

Microplanning

Capacity Building

Capacity Building

Grounded Theory

Grounded Theory

Voluntary Sector

Voluntary Sector

Multistakeholder Dialogues

Multistakeholder Dialogues

International Participatory Research Network

International Participatory Research Network

Intersubjectivity

Intersubjectivity

Horton, Myles

Horton, Myles

Criminal Justice Systems

Criminal Justice Systems

Pragmatism

Pragmatism

Local Self Governance

Local Self Governance

Bricolage Process

Bricolage Process

Reflective Practice

Reflective Practice

Classroom-based Action Research

Classroom-based Action Research

Two Column Technique

Two Column Technique

Health Education

Health Education

Action Evaluation

Action Evaluation

Conflict Management

Conflict Management

Ethics Protocols/IRB/Human Subjects Review

Ethics Protocols/IRB/Human Subjects Review

Health Promotion

Health Promotion

Socio-technical systems

Socio-technical systems

Systems psychodynamics

Systems psychodynamics

Online Action Research

Online Action Research

Convergent interviewing

Convergent interviewing

Generalizability

Generalizability

Transferability

Transferability

Validity (external, internal, etc)

Validity (external, internal, etc)

Cognitive Mapping

Cognitive Mapping

Organizational Culture

Organizational Culture

Agency

Agency

Positionality

Positionality

Voice

Voice

World Congresses of Action Research

World Congresses of Action Research

Advocacy/Inquiry

Advocacy/Inquiry

Ladder of Inference

Ladder of Inference

World Café

World Café

Liberation Psychology

Liberation Psychology

Empowerment

Empowerment

Work Research Institutes

Work Research Institutes

Gonogobeshona

Gonogobeshona

Critical Friend

Critical Friend

Photovoice/Photonovella

Photovoice/Photonovella

CCPH (Community Campus Partnerships for Health)

CCPH (Community Campus Partnerships for Health)

Feminist Action Research

Feminist Action Research

Performed Ethnography

Performed Ethnography

Action Research as Meta-methodology

Action Research as Meta-methodology

Health Care

Health Care

Feminism

Feminism

Practice Development

Practice Development

Information Systems and Action Research

Information Systems and Action Research

Integrating ICT and Organisational Change

Integrating ICT and Organisational Change

Office of Community-Based Research

Office of Community-Based Research

Agricultural (food security)

Agricultural (food security)

Community University Partnership Programme

Community University Partnership Programme

Aboriginal Research(OCAP Principles--Ownership, control, access and possession Indigenous research methods)

Aboriginal Research(OCAP Principles--Ownership, control, access and possession Indigenous research methods)

Learning Window

Learning Window

Tempered Radical

Tempered Radical

Social Movement Learning

Social Movement Learning

Technical Action Research

Technical Action Research

Dialogic Inquiry

Dialogic Inquiry

Communities of Practice

Communities of Practice

Double Loop Learning

Double Loop Learning

Theories of Action

Theories of Action

Digital Storytelling/Participatory Video

Digital Storytelling/Participatory Video

Freire, Paulo

Freire, Paulo

Qualimetrics Intervention-Research

Qualimetrics Intervention-Research

Data Analysis

Data Analysis

Teaching Action Researchers

Teaching Action Researchers

Ethnography

Ethnography

Highlander Research and Education Center

Highlander Research and Education Center

Youth Participatory Action Research

Youth Participatory Action Research

Frankfurt School

Frankfurt School

Marxism

Marxism

Alinsky, Saul

Alinsky, Saul

Community Development

Community Development

Ladder of Citizen Participation

Ladder of Citizen Participation

Critical Race Theory

Critical Race Theory

Project Management

Project Management

Identity

Identity

Grameen Bank

Grameen Bank

Dewey, John

Dewey, John

Research Circles

Research Circles

Living Life as Inquiry

Living Life as Inquiry

Rigour

Rigour

Hermeneutics

Hermeneutics

Center for AR in Professional Practice

Center for AR in Professional Practice

Educational Action Research

Educational Action Research

Boal, Augusto

Boal, Augusto

Third Person Inquiry/Practice

Third Person Inquiry/Practice

International Council for Adult Education

International Council for Adult Education

Community University Research Partnerships

Community University Research Partnerships

Evaluative Inquiry

Evaluative Inquiry

Listening Guide

Listening Guide

Lewin, Kurt

Lewin, Kurt

Community Mapping

Community Mapping

Asset-based Community Development

Asset-based Community Development

Experiential Learning

Experiential Learning

Martin-Baro, Ignacio

Martin-Baro, Ignacio

First-Person Action Research

First-Person Action Research

Nursing

Nursing

Critical Reference Group

Critical Reference Group

Ontology

Ontology

Critical Pedagogy

Critical Pedagogy

Chataway, Cynthia

Chataway, Cynthia

Arts-based Action Research

Arts-based Action Research

Knowledge Mobilization

Knowledge Mobilization

Participatory Rural Appraisal

Participatory Rural Appraisal

Second Person (inquiring in groups, one-to-one skills, large group…)

Second Person (inquiring in groups, one-to-one skills, large group…)

Participatory Design Programming

Participatory Design Programming

Global Alliance of Community Engaged Scholarship

Global Alliance of Community Engaged Scholarship

Engaged Scholarship

Engaged Scholarship

Asset Mapping

Asset Mapping

Phenomenology

Phenomenology

Transpersonal Inquiry

Transpersonal Inquiry

Concept Mapping

Concept Mapping

Participatory Theatre

Participatory Theatre

Mindful Inquiry

Mindful Inquiry

Ubuntu

Ubuntu

Tacit Knowledge

Tacit Knowledge

Community Based Participatory Research

Community Based Participatory Research

dian marino

dian marino

Participatory Disaster Management

Participatory Disaster Management

Dialogue

Dialogue

Intervention Research

Intervention Research

Theatre of the Oppressed

Theatre of the Oppressed

Citizensâ?? Juries

Citizensâ?? Juries

Living Theories

Living Theories

New Product Development

New Product Development

Operations Management

Operations Management

LGBTQ

LGBTQ

Humanism

Humanism

Narrative Inquiry

Narrative Inquiry

Ethics

Ethics

Swedish “Dig Where You Stand” Movement

Swedish “Dig Where You Stand” Movement

Experiential Knowing

Experiential Knowing

Critical Utopian Action Research

Critical Utopian Action Research

Extended Epistemology(knowing what/knowing how)

Extended Epistemology(knowing what/knowing how)

Learning History

Learning History

Collaborative Management Research

Collaborative Management Research

Action Turn, The

Action Turn, The

Participatory Budgeting

Participatory Budgeting

Learning Pathways

Learning Pathways

Sustainability

Sustainability

Journaling

Journaling

Dis/ability Organizations/Movement

Dis/ability Organizations/Movement

Aesthetics

Aesthetics

Action Research in Large groups

Action Research in Large groups

Descriptive Review

Descriptive Review

Systems Thinking

Systems Thinking

Jipemoyo Project

Jipemoyo Project

Cooperative Inquiry

Cooperative Inquiry

Evaluation Methodologies

Evaluation Methodologies

Collaborative Action Research Network (CARN)

Collaborative Action Research Network (CARN)

Autobiography

Autobiography

Narrative

Narrative

Maya Women of Chajul

Maya Women of Chajul

Organizational Storytelling

Organizational Storytelling

Discourse Analysis

Discourse Analysis

Vivencias (life-experiences, and interactions between these and theory and practice)

Vivencias (life-experiences, and interactions between these and theory and practice)

Supervising Action Research Theses and Dissertations

Supervising Action Research Theses and Dissertations

Postmodernism

Postmodernism

Liberation Theology

Liberation Theology

Co-Generated Learning

Co-Generated Learning

Regional Development

Regional Development

Facilitation

Facilitation

Theological action research

Theological action research

Pragmatic Action Research

Pragmatic Action Research

Appreciative Inquiry and Corporate Sustainability

Appreciative Inquiry and Corporate Sustainability

Participatory Evaluation

Participatory Evaluation

Academic Discourse (Posititioning AR within different forms of writing)

Academic Discourse (Posititioning AR within different forms of writing)

Hegemony

Hegemony

Metaphor

Metaphor

Dialogue Conferences

Dialogue Conferences

Social Constructionism

Social Constructionism

Post-Colonial Theory

Post-Colonial Theory

Interviews

Interviews

Strengths-Based Theory and Practice

Strengths-Based Theory and Practice

Oral Histories

Oral Histories

Maori Epistemologies

Maori Epistemologies

Role of a non-Indigenous Ally

Role of a non-Indigenous Ally

Hawaiian Epistemology

Hawaiian Epistemology

Design Research

Design Research

Storytelling

Storytelling

Subalternity

Subalternity

Fals Borda, Orlando

Fals Borda, Orlando

Map Making

Map Making

Systemic Action Research

Systemic Action Research

Work-Family Interventions

Work-Family Interventions

Indigenous Research Methods

Indigenous Research Methods

Phronesis

Phronesis

Praxis

Praxis

Techne

Techne

Constructivism

Constructivism

Human Rights

Human Rights

Quantitative Methods

Quantitative Methods

Interactive Research

Interactive Research

Communitarianism

Communitarianism

RIB (Research Initiatives Bangladesh)

RIB (Research Initiatives Bangladesh)

Work-Based learning

Work-Based learning

Critical Constructivism

Critical Constructivism

Environment and Climate Change

Environment and Climate Change

Folkschool Movement

Folkschool Movement

Heutogogy

Heutogogy

Social Learning Theory

Social Learning Theory

Appreciative Intelligence

Appreciative Intelligence

Critical Participatory Action Research

Critical Participatory Action Research

Indigenist Research

Indigenist Research

Activity Theory

Activity Theory

Institute of Development Studies

Institute of Development Studies

Philosophy of Science

Philosophy of Science

Gadamer, Hans-Georg

Gadamer, Hans-Georg

Interorganizational Action Research

Interorganizational Action Research

Stakeholder Analysis

Stakeholder Analysis

Conscientisation/Critical Consciousness

Conscientisation/Critical Consciousness

Community-based Research

Community-based Research

Dissertation Writing

Dissertation Writing

Adult Education

Adult Education

Appreciative Inquiry and Research Methodology 

Appreciative Inquiry and Research Methodology 

Appreciative Inquiry

Appreciative Inquiry

Symbolic Interactionism

Symbolic Interactionism

Gender Issues

Gender Issues

Norwegian Industrial Democracy Movement

Norwegian Industrial Democracy Movement

Epistemology

Epistemology

Search Conference

Search Conference

Emery, Fred

Emery, Fred

Anti-Oppression Research Practices

Anti-Oppression Research Practices

Community Dialogue

Community Dialogue

Participatory Learning and Action

Participatory Learning and Action

Kincheloe, Joe

Kincheloe, Joe

Participatory Urban Planning

Participatory Urban Planning

Noffke, Susan

Noffke, Susan

Positive Organizational Scholarship and Appreciative Inquiry

Positive Organizational Scholarship and Appreciative Inquiry

Subaltern Studies

Subaltern Studies

Transformative Learning

Transformative Learning

Nielsen, Kurt Aagaard

Nielsen, Kurt Aagaard

Islam and Action Research

Islam and Action Research

Argyris, Chris

Argyris, Chris

Schön, Donald

Schön, Donald

Karma Theory

Karma Theory

Field Theory

Field Theory

Quality

Quality

Collaborative Developmental Action Inquiry

Collaborative Developmental Action Inquiry

Relational-Cultural Theory

Relational-Cultural Theory

Jewish Belief, Thought and Practice

Jewish Belief, Thought and Practice

Environmental Justice

Environmental Justice

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The SAGE Encyclopedia of Action Research


August 2014 | 904 pages | Sage UK

Format Published Date ISBN Price
Hardcover 31/03/2026 9781849200271 $520.00

Action research is a term used to describe a family of related approaches that integrate theory and action with a goal of addressing important organizational, community, and social issues together with those who experience them. It focuses on the creation of areas for collaborative learning and the design, enactment and evaluation of liberating actions through combining action and research, reflection and action in an ongoing cycle of cogenerative knowledge. While the roots of these methodologies go back to the 1940s, there has been a dramatic increase in research output and adoption in university curricula over the past decade. This is now an area of high popularity among academics and researchers from various fields — especially business and organization studies, education, health care, nursing, development studies, and social and community work. This encyclopedia brings together the many strands of action research and addresses the interplay between these disciplines by presenting a state-of-the-art overview and comprehensive breakdown of the key tenets and methods of action research as well as detailing the work of key theorists and contributors to action research.

Table Of Contents:

  • Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
  • Cycles of Action & Reflection
  • Labor Managed Firms
  • Higher Education/Formal Educational Settings
  • Mondragon Cooperative Corporation
  • Critical Reflection
  • Taylorism
  • Practitioner Inquiry
  • Bakhtinian dialogism
  • Bildung
  • Heteroglossia
  • Authenticity
  • Clinical Inquiry/Research
  • Insider Action Research
  • Organization Development
  • Process Consultation
  • Action Learning
  • Critical Action Learning
  • Praxeology
  • Soft Systems Methodology
  • Communities of Inquiry
  • Citizen Participation
  • Action Science
  • Wittgenstein, Ludwig
  • Computer-based Instruction
  • Society for Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA)
  • Development Coalitions 
  • Participatory Rapid Appraisal
  • Women's Political Participation
  • Action Anthropology
  • Strategic Planning
  • Bateson, Gregory
  • Comprehensive District Planning
  • Participatory Monitoring
  • Integrating Grounded Theory and Action Research
  • Social Audit
  • Critical Realism
  • Collaborative Action Research
  • Participatory Governance
  • PAR
  • Complexity Theory
  • Social Justice
  • Tavistock Institute
  • Antigonish Movement
  • HIV Prevention and Support
  • Confucian Principles and AR
  • Feminist Ethics
  • Fishbone Diagrams/Ishikawa Diagrams
  • Workers' Participation in Occupational Health and Safety
  • Community Design Centers
  • Toulmin, Stephen
  • Social Accountability
  • Covenantal Ethics
  • Citizen Report Card
  • Whyte, William Foote
  • Focus Groups
  • CPARN Cornell Participatory Action Research Network
  • Microplanning
  • Capacity Building
  • Grounded Theory
  • Voluntary Sector
  • Multistakeholder Dialogues
  • International Participatory Research Network
  • Intersubjectivity
  • Horton, Myles
  • Criminal Justice Systems
  • Pragmatism
  • Local Self Governance
  • Bricolage Process
  • Reflective Practice
  • Classroom-based Action Research
  • Two Column Technique
  • Health Education
  • Action Evaluation
  • Conflict Management
  • Ethics Protocols/IRB/Human Subjects Review
  • Health Promotion
  • Socio-technical systems
  • Systems psychodynamics
  • Online Action Research
  • Convergent interviewing
  • Generalizability
  • Transferability
  • Validity (external, internal, etc)
  • Cognitive Mapping
  • Organizational Culture
  • Agency
  • Positionality
  • Voice
  • World Congresses of Action Research
  • Advocacy/Inquiry
  • Ladder of Inference
  • World Café
  • Liberation Psychology
  • Empowerment
  • Work Research Institutes
  • Gonogobeshona
  • Critical Friend
  • Photovoice/Photonovella
  • CCPH (Community Campus Partnerships for Health)
  • Feminist Action Research
  • Performed Ethnography
  • Action Research as Meta-methodology
  • Health Care
  • Feminism
  • Practice Development
  • Information Systems and Action Research
  • Integrating ICT and Organisational Change
  • Office of Community-Based Research
  • Agricultural (food security)
  • Community University Partnership Programme
  • Aboriginal Research(OCAP Principles--Ownership, control, access and possession Indigenous research methods)
  • Learning Window
  • Tempered Radical
  • Social Movement Learning
  • Technical Action Research
  • Dialogic Inquiry
  • Communities of Practice
  • Double Loop Learning
  • Theories of Action
  • Digital Storytelling/Participatory Video
  • Freire, Paulo
  • Qualimetrics Intervention-Research
  • Data Analysis
  • Teaching Action Researchers
  • Ethnography
  • Highlander Research and Education Center
  • Youth Participatory Action Research
  • Frankfurt School
  • Marxism
  • Alinsky, Saul
  • Community Development
  • Ladder of Citizen Participation
  • Critical Race Theory
  • Project Management
  • Identity
  • Grameen Bank
  • Dewey, John
  • Research Circles
  • Living Life as Inquiry
  • Rigour
  • Hermeneutics
  • Center for AR in Professional Practice
  • Educational Action Research
  • Boal, Augusto
  • Third Person Inquiry/Practice
  • International Council for Adult Education
  • Community University Research Partnerships
  • Evaluative Inquiry
  • Listening Guide
  • Lewin, Kurt
  • Community Mapping
  • Asset-based Community Development
  • Experiential Learning
  • Martin-Baro, Ignacio
  • First-Person Action Research
  • Nursing
  • Critical Reference Group
  • Ontology
  • Critical Pedagogy
  • Chataway, Cynthia
  • Arts-based Action Research
  • Knowledge Mobilization
  • Participatory Rural Appraisal
  • Second Person (inquiring in groups, one-to-one skills, large group…)
  • Participatory Design Programming
  • Global Alliance of Community Engaged Scholarship
  • Engaged Scholarship
  • Asset Mapping
  • Phenomenology
  • Transpersonal Inquiry
  • Concept Mapping
  • Participatory Theatre
  • Mindful Inquiry
  • Ubuntu
  • Tacit Knowledge
  • Community Based Participatory Research
  • dian marino
  • Participatory Disaster Management
  • Dialogue
  • Intervention Research
  • Theatre of the Oppressed
  • Citizensâ?? Juries
  • Living Theories
  • New Product Development
  • Operations Management
  • LGBTQ
  • Humanism
  • Narrative Inquiry
  • Ethics
  • Swedish “Dig Where You Stand” Movement
  • Experiential Knowing
  • Critical Utopian Action Research
  • Extended Epistemology(knowing what/knowing how)
  • Learning History
  • Collaborative Management Research
  • Action Turn, The
  • Participatory Budgeting
  • Learning Pathways
  • Sustainability
  • Journaling
  • Dis/ability Organizations/Movement
  • Aesthetics
  • Action Research in Large groups
  • Descriptive Review
  • Systems Thinking
  • Jipemoyo Project
  • Cooperative Inquiry
  • Evaluation Methodologies
  • Collaborative Action Research Network (CARN)
  • Autobiography
  • Narrative
  • Maya Women of Chajul
  • Organizational Storytelling
  • Discourse Analysis
  • Vivencias (life-experiences, and interactions between these and theory and practice)
  • Supervising Action Research Theses and Dissertations
  • Postmodernism
  • Liberation Theology
  • Co-Generated Learning
  • Regional Development
  • Facilitation
  • Theological action research
  • Pragmatic Action Research
  • Appreciative Inquiry and Corporate Sustainability
  • Participatory Evaluation
  • Academic Discourse (Posititioning AR within different forms of writing)
  • Hegemony
  • Metaphor
  • Dialogue Conferences
  • Social Constructionism
  • Post-Colonial Theory
  • Interviews
  • Strengths-Based Theory and Practice
  • Oral Histories
  • Maori Epistemologies
  • Role of a non-Indigenous Ally
  • Hawaiian Epistemology
  • Design Research
  • Storytelling
  • Subalternity
  • Fals Borda, Orlando
  • Map Making
  • Systemic Action Research
  • Work-Family Interventions
  • Indigenous Research Methods
  • Phronesis
  • Praxis
  • Techne
  • Constructivism
  • Human Rights
  • Quantitative Methods
  • Interactive Research
  • Communitarianism
  • RIB (Research Initiatives Bangladesh)
  • Work-Based learning
  • Critical Constructivism
  • Environment and Climate Change
  • Folkschool Movement
  • Heutogogy
  • Social Learning Theory
  • Appreciative Intelligence
  • Critical Participatory Action Research
  • Indigenist Research
  • Activity Theory
  • Institute of Development Studies
  • Philosophy of Science
  • Gadamer, Hans-Georg
  • Interorganizational Action Research
  • Stakeholder Analysis
  • Conscientisation/Critical Consciousness
  • Community-based Research
  • Dissertation Writing
  • Adult Education
  • Appreciative Inquiry and Research Methodology 
  • Appreciative Inquiry
  • Symbolic Interactionism
  • Gender Issues
  • Norwegian Industrial Democracy Movement
  • Epistemology
  • Search Conference
  • Emery, Fred
  • Anti-Oppression Research Practices
  • Community Dialogue
  • Participatory Learning and Action
  • Kincheloe, Joe
  • Participatory Urban Planning
  • Noffke, Susan
  • Positive Organizational Scholarship and Appreciative Inquiry
  • Subaltern Studies
  • Transformative Learning
  • Nielsen, Kurt Aagaard
  • Islam and Action Research
  • Argyris, Chris
  • Schön, Donald
  • Karma Theory
  • Field Theory
  • Quality
  • Collaborative Developmental Action Inquiry
  • Relational-Cultural Theory
  • Jewish Belief, Thought and Practice
  • Environmental Justice

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