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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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Action research and social development in China: Creating synergy between mar…
This article argues that the usefulness of action research hinges on a heightened sensitivity towards its relevance and irrelevance to social, economic and cultural environments in which the professional action researchers conduct their research. Its contribution to transforming social situations depends on how well the researchers can bring the different stakeholders of the local communi…
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- Vol. 6, No. 2, Page 193-212
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Research for change: Outcome mapping's contribution to emancipatory action re…
Although emancipatory action research has been practised for decades and continues to evolve, the method can benefit from the support of fresh approaches. Outcome mapping is an innovative planning, monitoring, and evaluation methodology recently conceived by Canada's International Development Research Centre in partnership with others. This article sets out the ways the two approaches complemen…
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- Vol. 6, No. 2, June 2008. Page 171-192
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Active research towards the addressal of HIV/AIDS in the informal economy in …
In this article we offer an account of research undertaken for the International Labour Organization (on behalf of the National Aids Council in Zambia) in relation to HIV/AIDS and the informal economy in Zambia. We concentrate on how we tried to operate in terms of a conscious recognition of (and acceptance of responsibility for) our complicity as inquirers (together with others) in the d…
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- Vol. 6, No. 2, Page 149-170
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Reciprocity: An ethic for community-based participatory action research
Ethical issues have been of ongoing interest in discussions of community-based participatory action research (CBPAR). In this article we suggest that the notion of reciprocity — defined as an ongoing process of exchange with the aim of establishing and maintaining equality between parties — can provide a guide to the ethical practice of CBPAR. Through sharing our experiences with a CBPAR projec…
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- Vol. 6, No. 3, Page 305-325
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Teaching and learning action research: Transforming students, faculty and uni…
This article describes our experience teaching action research (AR) in a Mexican graduate program. It emphasizes the challenges associated with teaching this kind of research in Mexico and illustrates ways we address those challenges. It also illustrates that a high level of personal growth often accompanies AR training and that such growth, as well as learning the `mechanics' of AR, is signifi…
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- Vol. 6, No. 3, September 2008. Page 327-349
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e-PAR: Using technology and participatory action research to engage youth in …
There is increasing interest in `moving upstream' in youth health promotion efforts to focus on building youth self-esteem, self-efficacy and civic engagement. Participatory Action Research (PAR) can be a powerful mechanism for galvanizing youth to become active agents of this change. Engaging youth in PAR and health promotion, however, is not always an easy task. This article describes a model…
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- Vol. 6, No. 3, Page 285-303
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Authenticity as first person practice: An exploration based on Bernard Lonergan
In this article I explore how the notion of authenticity may be grounded in first person practice, rather than in the quality of research data. Drawing on the work of the philosopher-theologian Bernard Lonergan who follows a first person approach and who articulates a notion of authenticity, I explore how authenticity may be framed in terms of being attentive, intelligent, reasonable, and respo…
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- Vol. 6, No. 3, Page 351-366
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Making habitable space together with female Chinese immigrants to Hong Kong: …
When women from mainland China are newly arrived in Hong Kong, their first difficulty is usually environmental stress. Their socio-economic situation often limits their ability to express their expectations related to their living space. In order to enable the women to voice their views and become participants in urban planning, our research group adopted interdisciplinary participatory action …
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- Vol. 6, No. 3, Page 261-283
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Voices from the field: Practitioner reactions to collaborative research initi…
Numerous accounts of the difficulties encountered in research collaborations can be found in the extant literature. Most of these accounts, however, are from the perspective of academically based researchers. Comparatively little is known about how agency staff respond to these initiatives. To address this gap in knowledge, the article describes the challenges encountered during a research coll…
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- Volume 6, No. 4, December 2008, p. 373-390
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Action research, practical challenges and the formation of theory
It is a common assumption that action research exists in a number of varieties. In efforts to explain these varieties, the point of departure is sometimes sought in differences in practical challenges, sometimes in differences in theoretical outlook. Taken separately, these perspectives can, however, both be too limited. Drawing upon an action research tradition that has been in existence for f…
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- Volume 6, No. 4, December 2008. p. 421-437
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An existential approach to engaging adult learners in the process of legitimi…
The aim of this study is two-fold. One is evaluating the action research process and how the existential situations of the inquiry influence the process of intervention. The second is generating and analysing the thematic structure of the learners' reconstructions of their lived experiences. The study highlighted that through challenging, one can convince learners to legitimate their narrative …
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- December 2008, Volume 6, No. 4 , p. 391-420
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The Effects of Media Interpretation for Citizen Evaluations of Politicians' M…
Although politicians prefer to communicate directly with the public, political sound bites in the nightly news are shrinking and primetime presidential press conferences are becoming increasingly uncommon. Instead, people primarily receive the messages of politicians as interpreted by journalists. What are the consequences of this interpretation for how citizens evaluate political messages? Thi…
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- Vol. 37, No. 1, January 2009.pp. 129-154
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Strange Bedfellows: The Policy Consequences of Legislative—Judicial Relatio…
This research examines the relationship between courts and legislatures in a comparative perspective. Specifically, I examine how (a) the ideological composition of the bench, (b) the propensity of court involvement in a given policy area, and (c) the disposition of court decisions in a given policy area influence the ideology of bill introductions and policy enactments by state legislatures. B…
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- Vol. 37, No. 1, January 2009.pp. 3-29
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Initiative Campaigns: Direct Democracy and Voter Mobilization
Previous research has found that the campaigns of candidates running for office provide information to voters and can increase turnout. Scholarly research has also found that states with initiatives and referendums appearing on the ballot have higher voter turnout, especially in midterm elections. However, actual initiative campaigns are rarely measured. Drawing on national survey data and stat…
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- Vol. 37, No. 1, January 2009.pp. 155-192
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Uncertain Precedent: Circuit Court Responses to Supreme Court Plurality Opinions
To what extent do lower court judges follow Supreme Court plurality opinions? By examining treatments of Supreme Court cases from the 1976-1986 terms by the Circuit Courts of Appeals from 1976 to 2005, this article addresses the consequences of the Supreme Court's failure to reach a clear majority decision. I find evidence that lower courts are less likely to follow plurality opinions than majo…
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- Vol. 37, No. 1, January 2009.pp. 30-49
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