Action research: from practice to writing in an international action research development program
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam John Benjamins Pub. Co. ©1999
Series:Dialogues on work and innovation v. 8
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-271) and indexes
Annotation 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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (ix, 282 pages)
ISBN:1556198329
9027217785
9027299390
9781556198328
9789027217783
9789027299390

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