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

• Main Authors: lisahunter. (Author), Emerald, Elke. (Author), Martin, Gregory. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Explorations of Educational Purpose, 26
• Subjects: Education.; Sociology of Education.; Educational Policy and Politics.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4426-4

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...

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: Dont LEAP into this
• Other examples from professional fields
• Presenting your research for an audience
• Conclusion
• Index.