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Discovering what the people knew: The 1979 Appalachian Land Ownership Study
The Appalachian Land Ownership Study is recognized as a pioneering effort in the interdisciplinary field of participatory action research. This article analyzes this community-based study of land ownership and taxation in Appalachia to determine what lessons it offers a new generation of action researchers. It demonstrates both the practical difficulties in community-based research as well as t…
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- Vol. 7, No. 2, June 2009. pp. 185-205
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Dilemmas of trustworthiness in preservice teacher action research
Can preservice teachers carry out trustworthy action research? We have found that action research can be a powerful experience for preservice teachers. Yet preservice teacher action research projects involve complexities unique to a preservice teacher's position as `guest', `student', `teacher', and `researcher'. In this article, we suggest criteria for trustworthy preservice teacher action res…
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- Vol. 7, No. 2, June 2009. pp. 207-226
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Dissemination in action research
Lewin proposed three goals for action research: to advance knowledge; to improve a concrete situation; and to improve behavioral science methodology. The three objectives cannot be met by a single mode of dissemination. Innovative dissemination strategies will be necessary. Action researchers should publish substantive articles in technical journals to reach colleagues; applied articles in peri…
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- Vol. 7, No. 2, June 2009. pp. 227-236
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Initiating action research: Challenges and paradoxes of opening communicative…
The success or failure of an action research venture often depends on what happens at the beginning of the inquiry process: in the way access is established, and on how participants and co-researchers are engaged early on. ‘Opening communicative space’ is important because, however we base our theory and practice of action research, the first steps are fateful. We draw on Habermas’s theorizing …
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- Vol. 7, No. 3, September 2009.pp. 243-262
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The paradox of participation in action research
Although participation is widely discussed in the action research literature, relatively few studies deal with building the participative relationship itself. This article attempts to fill that gap through a ‘first-person action research’ involving a relationship between Jewish researchers and a Palestinian Arab non-governmental organization in Israel that failed to live up to our espoused valu…
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- Vol. 7, No. 3, September 2009.pp. 263-290
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Only to connect: Systems psychodynamics and communicative space
This article provides an example of the contribution a systems psychodynamic approach can make to action research. Drawing from a case study of a complex inter-organizational project, the authors argue that the concept of ‘communicative requires consideration of affectivity, and the holding of an emotional space for people to connect symbiotically with each The case material illustrates how sys…
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- Vol. 7, No. 3, September 2009.pp. 291-312
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Local communities empowered to plan?: Applying PAR to establish democratic co…
This article presents the second cycle of an ongoing participatory action research (PAR) project that aimed at facilitating bottom-up, sustainability planning and development in one of the most socio-economically disadvantageous micro-regions of Hungary. The process at the very beginning started as conventional qualitative research, and gradually emerged to a PAR process as deeper relationships…
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- Vol. 7, No. 3, September 2009.pp. 313-334
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Opening and closing communicative space with teachers investigating race and …
This article explores the very practical challenges that the author experienced as she and a racially mixed elementary school teaching staff negotiated communicative space within a critical inquiry group exploring race and racism in their teaching context. Specifically, the author explores her role of critical friend as crucial to forming communicative space; the ways that communicative space w…
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- Vol. 7, No. 3, September 2009.pp. 335-354
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Multi-site action research: Conceptualizing a variety of multi-organization p…
Classical action research within single organizations has become a well established and differentiated approach since its inception more than six decades ago. More recently, many have built on the foundational principles of action research to develop and implement larger-scale, multi-organization, action research approaches. Multi-organization action research has largely taken the form of coali…
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- Vol. 7, No. 4, Dec 2009. pp. 363-384
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Are we talking the walk of community-based research?
When we present ourselves as doing research that is participatory and action oriented, are we meeting either of those goals? An analysis of 232 concept applications sent to the Sociological Initiatives Foundation community-based research funding pool shows that most proposed research emphasized neither participation nor action. Grassroots community members, or organizations controlled by them, …
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- Vol. 7, No. 4, December 2009. pp. 385-404
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What kind of respect is this? Shifting the mindset of teachers regarding cult…
In this article I attempt to answer the question, ‘How can I influence teachers to be able to contribute to changing social/cultural norms and practices that hamper effective HIV & AIDS education and prevention?’ There is a growing realization that HIV & AIDS education and prevention initiatives need to move away from trying to change the sexual behaviour of individuals towards addressing socie…
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- Vol. 7, No. 4, December 2009. pp. 405-422
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Action research literature 2006—2008: Themes and trends
In this, the third in a series of two-yearly reviews (see also Dick, 2004, and Dick, 2006), I identify some of the action research literature that has appeared in books and edited collections over approximately the past two years. After an overview of the general action research literature I gather together other relevant literature under the following headings: action learning; community-based…
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- Vol. 7, No. 4, December 2009. pp. 423-441
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Action research in teacher education: Two teacher-educators practice action r…
Two teacher-educators, an instructor and a teaching assistant, designed an action research project focused on enhancing their professional practice and the practice of their students by introducing the preservice teachers to action research. Both teacher-educators viewed this decision as progressive and emancipatory, as action research encourages inquiry and reflection, connects theory to…
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- Vol. 6, No. 1, March 2008. Page 7-28
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Participatory teacher development at schools: Processes and issues
This article describes an action research study on reflective development at school and discusses methodological and pedagogical issues arising from teacher beliefs and expectations. Teachers and researchers participated in four cooperative cycles of inquiry, where situated learning and reflection supported their conceptual change and meaning-making. Teachers underwent a gradual shift fro…
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- Vol. 6, No. 1, March 2008. Page 29-48
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The role of citizen participation and action research principles in Main Stre…
This article examines the use of citizen participation techniques during the planning process for neighborhood revitalization in the Village of Depew which is an industrial suburb of Buffalo, New York. The article focuses on how action research principles can inform and enhance traditional approaches to citizen participation. In particular, we discuss our role as university-based consulta…
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- Vol. 6, No. 1, Page 69-93
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Emancipation or workability?: Critical versus pragmatic scientific orientatio…
In this article a distinction between a pragmatic and a critical orientation of action research is made. These orientations can be considered, implicitly or explicitly, to be the main alternatives in AR today. What are the assumptions behind, and practical implications for, AR projects with different orientations? A number of themes are introduced where a tension between the two are ident…
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- Vol. 6, No. 1, Page 95-115
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Challenging institutional barriers to community-based research
Those of us attempting to develop truly equal partnerships with communities and community organizations, using the method of community-based research, encounter many barriers. These barriers revolve around who sets the schedule, who determines the labor pool, who controls the product, and who gets the funding. In this article, a case study shows how those barriers exert themselves, and ev…
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- Vol. 6, No. 1, March 2008. Page 49-67
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Generating the power for development through sustained dialogue: An experienc…
This article describes a project to promote development in a rural area of the KwaZulu Natal Province of South Africa. Using a methodology called sustained dialogue, this project engaged a cross-section of leaders from several villages to reflect on past development efforts, design and implement new projects, and then evaluate their success. This project shows that a key contribution that…
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- Vol. 6, No. 2, Page 213-232
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Over the rainbow: The politics of researching citizenship and marginality
This article deals with different methodological enquiries in researching citizenship and marginality in a developing context. It is based on reflections emerging from a five-year collaborative international research programme that focused on enhancing the efforts of the poor and marginalized groups to define and claim their rights and make citizenship matter. The article deals with the p…
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- Vol. 6, No. 2, Page 233-253
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Speaking for ourselves: A Colombia-Canada research collaboration
As an Assistant Professor in Community Economic and Social Development (CESD) at Algoma University College, Ontario, Canada and a member of Asopricor Holistic Association, Cundinamarca, Colombia, respectively, the authors have engaged in an ongoing dialogue regarding the inherent contradictions of forming a North—South, university—community research collaboration. For those who have e…
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- Vol. 6, No. 2, June 2008. Page 129-147
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