The SAGE Handbook of Action Research

The third edition of The SAGE Handbook of Action Research presents an updated version of the bestselling text, including new chapters covering emerging areas in healthcare, social work, education and international development, as well as an expanded 'skills' section which includes new consultant-relevant materials.

The third edition of The SAGE Handbook of Action Research presents an updated version of the bestselling text, including new chapters covering emerging areas in healthcare, social work, education and international development, as well as an expanded 'skills' section which includes new consultant-relevant materials. Building on the strength of the previous landmark editions, Hilary Bradbury has carefully developed this edition to ensure it follows in their footsteps by mapping the current state of the discipline, as well as looking to the future of the field and exploring the issues at the cutting edge of the action research paradigm today. This volume is an essential resource for scholars and professionals engaged in social and political inquiry, healthcare, international development, new media, organizational research and education.

Introduction: How to Situate and Define Action Research - Hilary BradburyPART ONE: PRACTICESIntroduction to Practices - Alfredo Ortiz Aragón and María Teresa Castillo-BurgueteThe Practice of Learning History: Local and Open System Approaches - Hilary Bradbury, George Roth, Margaret GeartyPRA, PLA and Pluralism: Practice and Theory - Robert ChambersDeveloping the Practice of Leading Change through Insider Action Research: A Dynamic Capability Perspective - David Coghlan and A.B. ShaniInnovations In Appreciative Inquiry: Critical Appreciative Inquiry With Excluded Pakistani Women - Graham DuncanCollaborative Developmental Action Inquiry - Aftab Erfan and Bill TorbertSystematization of Experiences: A Practice of Participatory Research from Latin America - Elza Falkembach and Alfonso Torres CarilloEmpowerment Evaluation and Action Research: A Convergence of Values, Principles, and Purpose - David M. FettermanAction Evaluation: An Action Research Practice for the Participative Definition, Monitoring, and Assessment of Success in Social Innovation and Conflict Engagement - Victor J. Friedman and Jay RothmanTheatre in Participatory Action Research: Experiences from Bangladesh - Meghna GuhathakurtaUsing T-Groups to Develop Action Research Skills In Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous Environments - Michael Krot and Lisa StefanacThe Action Research Practice of Urban Planning - An Example from Hong Kong - Hok Bun Ku & Jackie Y. C. KwokThe artistry of emancipatory practice: Photovoice, creative techniques, and feminist anti-racist participatory action research - M. Brinton Lykes and Holly ScheibAction Science Revisited: Building Knowledge Out of Practice to Transform Practice - Diana McLain SmithSystemic Intervention - Gerald MidgleyCommunity Based Participatory Research with communities defined by race, ethnicity, and disability: Translating theory to practice - Christina Nicolaidis and Dora RaymakerAction Learning - Mike Pedler and John BurgoyneThe Network Leadership Innovation Lab: A Practice for Social Change - Elissa Perry, Robin Katcher, Mark Leach and Laurie MazurAwareness-Based Action Research: Catching Social Reality Creation in Flight - Otto Scharmer and Katrin KauferThe World Café in Action Research Settings - Frederick Steier, Juanita Brown and Flavio Mesquita da SilvaEthnographic Action Research: Media, information and communicative ecologies for development initiatives - Jo TacchiRe-Fashioning Citizens' Juries: Participatory Democracy In Action - Tom Wakeford, Michel Pimbert and Erin WalconThe practice of helping students to find their first person voice in creating living-theories for Education - Jack WhiteheadThe Practice of Teaching Co-operative Inquiry - Lyle YorksPART TWO: EXEMPLARSIntroduction to Exemplars - Svante Lifvergren and Kent GlenzerSymbiosis of Action Research and Deliberative Democracy in the Context of Participatory Constitution-Making - Oguz N. Babüroglu, Gülru Z. Göker, Emre KoyuncuAction Research in Universities and Higher Education Worldwide - Rebecca Boden, Davydd Greenwood, Budd Hall, Morten Levin, Judi Marshall, and Susan Wright'I'm not afraid of him; that dog barks but he don't bite'. PAR processes, gender equity and emancipation with women in Yucatan, Mexico - María Teresa Castillo-Burguete, Carmen García-Gómez, Pedro Castro-Borges and Federico DickinsonInsurgent inquiry: Connecting action research, impact evaluation, and global strategy in a rights-based international development NGO - Kent Glenzer, Elisa Martinez, and Michael DrinkwaterAction Research with Marginalized Immigrants' Coming to Voice: Twenty Years of Social Movement Support in Taiwan and Still Going - Hsiao-Chuan HsiaImproving health and well being: Researching alongside marginalized people across diverse domains - Tina KochAfter a Decade of Action Research: Impactful Systems Improvement in Swedish Healthcare - Svante Lifvergren, Tony Huzzard and Andreas HellströmAction Research As A Transformative Force In Management Education: Introducing The Collaboratory - Katrin MuffAchieving Equity in Education - Ernie StringerPART THREE: GROUNDINGSIntroduction to Groundings - Hilary BradburyPraxis - Retrieving the Roots of Action Research - Olav EikelandCore Issues in Modern Epistemology for Action Researchers: dancing between knower and known - Gil ColemanSocial Construction and Research as Action - Kenneth J. Gergen and Mary M. GergenHow to succeed in action research without really acting: Tracing the development of action research to constructivist practice in organizational worklife - Bjørn Gustavsen and Øyvind PålshaugenOrganization Development: Action Research for Organizational Change - David CoghlanEvolutionary Systems Thinking: What Gregory Bateson, Kurt Lewin, and Jacob Moreno Offered to Action Research That Still Remains to be Learned - Davydd J. GreenwoodHow Change Happens: The implications of complexity and systems thinking for Action Research - Danny BurnsComplex Systems and Emergence in Action Research - Benyamin LichtensteinCritical theory and critical participatory action research - Stephen Kemmis, Robin McTaggart and Rhonda NixonPower and Knowledge - John Gaventa and Andrea CornwallResearch, Participation and Social Transformation: Grounding Systematization of Experiences in Latin American Perspectives - Danilo R. Streck and Oscar Jara HolidayKnowledge Democracy, Community Based Action Research, The Global South And The Excluded North - George Ladaah Openjuru, Namrata Jaitli, Rajesh Tandon and Budd HallParticipatory Action Research: Its Origins and Future in Women's Ways - Marja-Liisa SwantzThe Location of Race in Action Research - Erica Gabrielle FoldySex and Sensibilities: Doing Action Research while Respecting Even Inspiring Dignity - Lauren MartinCrowdsourcing and Action Research. Fostering people's participation in research through digital media - Chiara Certomà and Michel PimbertNaturally emerging regulation and the danger of delegitimizing conventional leadership: Drawing on the example of Wikipedia - Dariusz JemielniakAction Research in an Online World - Dusty Columbia EmburyLarge Scale Change Action Research - Steve Waddell, Milla McLachlan, Greta Meszoely and Sandra WaddockCompanions to Action Research: Reaching beyond our networks to build alignments and a common repository of resources - Gabriele BammerAction Research and Ecological Practice - Peter Reason and Susan CanneyEcofeminism and systems thinking: Shared ethics of care for action research - Anne StephensThe Integrating (Feminine) Reach Of Action Research: A Nonet For Epistemological Voice - Hilary BradburyExpanding Reach and Justice with PAR: Working with More Than Humans - Debra Merskin and Debra DurhamPART FOUR: SKILLSIntroduction to Skills - Dusty Columbia EmburyWidening the Circle: Ethical Reflection in Action Research and the Practice of Structured Ethical Reflection - Mary Brydon-Miller, Amy Rector Aranda, and Douglas M. StevensThe Skillful Means of Engaged Research - Jacques M. Chevalier, Daniel J. Buckles and Michelle BourassaFeelings in first person action research - Hanne HeenClearing Obstacles: An Exercise to Expand a Person's Repertoire of Action - Elaine Herdman-Barker and Aftab ErfanA cross-cultural approach with East-Asian epistemology: Developing soft skills in action research - Noriyuki InoueCultivating Intention (As we enter the fray): The Practice of Embodying Presence, Awareness, and Purpose as Action Researchers - David McCallum and Aliki NicolaidesHolding Theory Skillfully in Consulting Interventions - Grady McGonagill and Dana CarmanYou Better Check Your Method Before You Wreck Your Method: Challenging and Transforming Photovoice - Angie P. MejiaDiscovering Philosophical Assumptions That Guide Action Research: The Reflexive Toolbox Approach - Michael O'Rourke, Chad Gonnerman, Stephen J. Crowley, and Troy E. HallRadical epistemology as caffeine for social change - Alfredo Ortiz Aragón and Juan Carlos Giles MacedoMediated dialogue in action research - Charles J. Palus and John B. McGuireTeaching The Heart of Action Research Skills: Breaking Free in the Classroom - Timothy PyrchPractice of Mindful Intuition: Bi-Directional Openness: The Skill of Expressing And Sensing Leadership That Serves a Group - Yumi SeraDesignerly Ways for Action Research - Howard SilvermanNurturing Creative Destruction: Bringing Management Mindsets and Influence Skillsets to Health Care - Nicole A. Steckler and James J. HuntzickerTeaching and Learning Reflective Practice in the Action Science/Action Inquiry Tradition - Steven S. Taylor, Jenny W. Rudolph, and Erica Gabrielle FoldyFrom Research "On" to Research "With": Developing Skills for Research with Sex Workers - Emily van der MeulenShared inquiry capabilities and differing inquiry preferences: Navigating 'full cycle' iterations of action research - Yoland WadsworthUnlocking the Secrets of Personal and Systemic Power: The Power Lab and Action Inquiry in the Classroom - Nancy C. Wallis