Action Research: From practice to writing in an international action research development program

Action Research: From practice to writing in an international action research development program
ISBN-10
9027299390
ISBN-13
9789027299390
Series
Action Research
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
283
Language
English
Published
1999-04-15
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing
Author
Davydd J. Greenwood

Description

Supported bilaterally by Sweden and Norway, the Scandinavian Action Research Development Program (ACRES — Action Research in Scandinavia) emphasized conceptualizing research questions and self-conscious writing processes for experienced action researchers. Participants came from Norway, Sweden, Finland, Holland, Great Britain, and the United States. A learning experiment in the tradition of Scandinavian industrial democracy, ACRES had both intellectual and organizational tensions common to action research projects. This book includes theoretical and historical overviews of action research, reflections on the writing process, narratives about the design and difficult internal processes of ACRES, and a selection of the participants’ writings. A particularly unique feature of the book is the discussion of the problematic relationship between action research and conventional modes of research writing and an analysis of the complex social processes collaboratively managed projects create, in combination with a set of participant cases.

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