Towards Quality Improvement of Action Research : : Developing Ethics and Standards / / Ben Boog, Meindert Slager, Julia Preece, Jacques Zeelen.

This book offers perspectives and challenges for action research in contemporary society with a particular reflection on ethics and standards. On the one hand the world is becoming smaller and much more open with tremendous opportunities for international exchange and multi-cultural enrichment. On t...

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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, , Boston : : Brill | Sense,, 2008.
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (vi, 238 pages)
Notes:Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material / Ben Boog , Julia Preece , Meindert Slagter and Jacques Zeelen
  • Introduction: Ethics and Standards in Action Research / Jacques Zeelen , Meindert Slagter , Ben Boog and Julia Preece
  • Criteria for a Reflexive Approach to Knowledge Production / Coyan Tromp
  • Aristotle, Validity, and Action Research / Olav Eikeland
  • Action Research for Living Human Systems / Yoland Wadsworth
  • Taking an Attitude of Inquiry / Judi Marshall and Peter Reason
  • The Ethics of Action Research: Transcending Theory / Øyvind Pålshaugen
  • Cross-Atlantic Dialogue on University-Based Action Research: Paths to Upward Epistemology / Barclay Hudson , Katrina Rogers and Gill Colemen
  • Don’t Fight the Battle, Rather Swim… Action Research Ethics in Contemporary Academia / An De bisschop and André Mottart
  • Combining Design-Based Research and Action Research to Test Management Solutions / Daniel Andriessen
  • Extraction, Empowerment, and Relationships in the Practice of Participatory Research / Carl Wilmsen
  • Involving Street Children in the Democratization of Urban Space / Anli Ataöv
  • Multi-Perspective Interpretation of Environmental and Health-Data: A Search for Good Quality Action / Hans Keune , Nik van Larebeke , Greet Schoeters , Vera Nelen , Willy Bayens , Bert Morrens and Ilse Loots
  • Democratic Knowledge Processes in Participatory Educational Research for Social Change / Gunilla Härnsten and Lars Holmstrand
  • Action Research in Africa: Challenges and Perspectives / Josje van der Linden and Jacques Zeelen
  • Understanding Chronic Illness Experience: Story Telling in Participatory Action Research / Tina Koch and Susan Mann
  • Afterthoughts; The Ethos, Epistemology and Heuristics of Participatory Action Research / Ben Boog
  • About the Authors / Jacques Zeelen , Meindert Slagter , Ben Boog and Julia Preece.