The Sage Handbook of Action Research: Participative Inquiry and Practice - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1412920299 ISBN 13 : 9781412920292

Editeur : SAGE Publications Inc, 2007

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Présentation de l'éditeur :

'For anyone seeking to create meaning out of life, inspire others with publication of research discoveries and insights, and help the world become a better place within which to live and work, action research holds great promise as an approach. The challenge is to do it well and with rigor. The Handbook is a magnificent collection of articles that will help the reader do all of that'

- Richard E. Boyatzis, Case Western Reserve University and Esade

'This second volume will be a welcome extension of the landmark first volume of the Sage Handbook of Action Research. It effectively secures the field's 'second wave' in a particularly powerful and creative articulation of well-theorised practice. It could not be more timely for a fast-growing field that has attracted recent appreciation from parties as disparate as Shell, 3M, Australian Aboriginal women in outback Australia working to prevent harm to children and the Secretary General of the Un'

- Yoland Wadsworth

'For anyone thinking about or doing action research, this book is an obligatory point of reference. If any one text both maps the action research paradigm, and at the same time moves it on, this is it'

- Bill Cooke, Manchester Business School

Building on the strength of the seminal first edition, The Sage Handbook of Action Research has been completely updated to bring chapters in line with the latest qualitative and quantitative approaches in this field of social inquiry. Editors Peter Reason and Hilary Bradbury have introduced new part commentaries that draw links between different contributions and show their interrelations.

Throughout, the contributing authors really engage with the pragmatics of doing action research and demonstrate how this can be a rich and rewarding reflective practice. They tackle questions of how to integrate knowledge with action, how to collaborate with co-researchers in the field, and how to present the necessaril

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: SAGE Publications Inc
• Date d'édition: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1412920299
• ISBN 13: 9781412920292
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 752
• Éditeur: Reason Peter, Bradbury-Huang Hilary