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Participatory Activist Research in the Globalised World Social Change Through the Cultural Professions /

Action research was conceived as a method of collaborative, self-reflective problem-solving in a community context. Yet many believe it has evolved too far away from its original, directly activist roots. As a direct response to calls for a rejuvenation of the social agenda of ‘action research’, thi...

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Main Authors: lisahunter. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Emerald, Elke. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Martin, Gregory. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Edition:1st ed. 2013.
Series:Explorations of Educational Purpose, 26
Subjects:
Educational sociology.
Educational policy.
Education and state.
Sociology of Education.
Educational Policy and Politics.
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4426-4
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • SECTION A: THE BIGGER PICTURE
  • Pasts, presents and futures: An overview of the Action Research family
  • Theoretical orientations: critical theory and related theories for activism
  • Where do you stand? Philosophical orientations
  • SECTION B: DOING THIS STUFF
  • Methodology of activism in research
  • Methods of constructing field texts
  • Methods of analysing field texts to make research texts
  • SECTION C: GOING PUBLIC
  • Difficulties, limitations and cautions
  • A checklist for activist research(ers)
  • A practical example: Don’t LEAP into this
  • Other examples from professional fields
  • Presenting your research for an audience
  • Conclusion
  • Index.

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