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Action Research
From practice to writing in an international action research development program
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.
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.
[Dialogues on Work and Innovation, 8] 1999. ix, 282 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 21 October 2008
Published online on 21 October 2008
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- Preface | pp. vii–x
- Part I: ACRES and Action Research
- 1. On the Design of the ACRES programHans van Beinum | p. 3
- 2. Action Research ParadigmsMorten Levin | p. 25
- 3. Research in ACRESClaude Faucheux | p. 39
- 4. Organizational Processes in ACRESRené van der Vlist | p. 55
- 5. The Rhetoric of Action Research: Writing in the ACRES ProgramDavydd J. Greenwood | p. 91
- 6. The Rhetoric of Action Research: Views from ACRES ParticipantsSiv Friis, John Puckett, Øystein Spjelkavik and Agneta Hansson | p. 99
- Part II: Case Studies
- 7. Applied Reasearch or Action Research? Different or Complementary MethodsØystein Spjelkavik | p. 117
- 8. Linking Social Science Working Life Research and work Reform: A Role for UniversitiesKjell Eriksson | p. 131
- 9. The Action Research Tradition in the United States: Toward a Strategy for Revitalizing the Social Sciences, the University, and the Americal CityJohn Puckett and Ira Harkavy | p. 147
- 10. Bottom-up Organizational Change: The Segerström CaseBertil Olsson | p. 169
- 11. Setting the Scene for Effection Dialogue Between Men and Women at WorkIngrid Ljungberg van Beinum | p. 181
- 12. Do We Need a Gender Perspective in Action research on Work Organizations?Agneta Hansson | p. 205
- 13. Learning to Learn: Participatory Action Research in Public SchoolsAnn Martin | p. 223
- 14. How About a Dialogue? The Communicative Parspective Meets the Socioeclological PerspectiveHenrik Dons Finsrud | p. 239
- Subject Index | pp. 273–278
- Name Index | pp. 279–283
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