Living Inquiry: Personal, political and philosophical groundings of Action Research Practice

PC Gaya Wicks; P. Reason; H. Bradbury

Living Inquiry: Personal, political and philosophical groundings of Action Research Practice

PC Gaya Wicks, P. Reason, H. Bradbury

School of Management - Business School

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This chapter seeks to detail the scholarly and intellectual threads identified by members of the action research community, and to point to further reading for those interested in pursuing these. It shows some of the ways in which the thoughtful integration of various theoretical perspectives and life experiences gives rise to well-developed personal paradigms which both shape and explain action researchers' being and acting in the world.

Translated title of the contribution	Living Inquiry: Personal, political and philosophical groundings of Action Research Practice
Original language	English
Title of host publication	Handbook of Action Research, Second Edition
Editors	P. Reason, H Bradbury
Publisher	SAGE Publications Ltd
Pages	15 - 30
Number of pages	15
ISBN (Print)	1412920299
Publication status	Published - 2008

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This is the introductory chapter in the landmark Sage publication, 'The Handbook of Action Research' Second Edition. The Handbook is a seminal text in the Action Research field, and is widely cited internationally. It has well over 3000 citations on Google Scholar, for example. The chapter itself is shown as having 12 citations on Google Scholar.

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