Peter Reason

Bio: Peter Reason is an academic researcher from University of Bath. The author has contributed to research in topics: Action research & Participatory action research. The author has an hindex of 30, co-authored 63 publications receiving 11365 citations.

Handbook of action research : participative inquiry and practice

Abstract: Introduction - Peter Reason and Hilary Bradbury Inquiry and Participation in Search of a World Worthy of Human Aspiration PART ONE: GROUNDINGS Theory and Practice - Bj[sl]orn Gustavsen The Mediating Discourse Participatory (Action) Research in Social Theory - Orlando Fals Borda Origins and Challenges Action Research in the Workplace - William Pasmore The Socio-Technical Perspective Infusing Race into the US Discourse on Action Research - Ella Edmondson Bell Uneven Ground - Patricia Maguire Feminisms and Participatory, Action-Oriented Research Power and Knowledge - John Gaventa and Andrea Cornwall Knowledge and Participatory Research - Peter Park Exploring the Relevance of Critical Theory for Action Research - Stephen Kemmis Emancipatory Action Research in the Footsteps of J[um]urgen Habermas Pragmatic Action Research and the Struggle to Transform Universities into Learning Communities - Morten Levin and Davydd Greenwood The Humanistic Approach to Action Research - John Rowan Engaging Sympathies - Yvonna S Lincoln Relationships between Action Research and Social Constructivism The Relationship of 'Systems Thinking' to Action Research - Robert Louis Flood Action Research as the Hidden Curriculum of the Western Tradition - Olav Eikeland PART TWO: PRACTICES Action Science - Victor J Friedman Creating Communities of Inquiry in Communities of Practice I Wish This Were a Poem of Practices of Participatory Research - Budd L Hall The Practice of Co-Operative Inquiry - John Heron and Peter Reason Research 'with' Rather Than 'on' People Appreciative Inquiry - James D Ludema, David L Cooperrider and Frank J Barrett The Power of the Unconditional Positive Question Large Group Processes as Action Research - Ann W Martin The Use of Words - [sl]Oyvind P[lo]alshaugen Improving Enterprises by Improving Their Conversations Ethnodrama - Jim Mienczakowski and Stephen Morgan Constructing Participatory, Experiential and Compelling Action Research through Performance Clinical//Inquiry Research - Edgar H Schein Community Action Research - Peter Senge and Otto Scharmer Learning as a Community of Practitioners, Consultants and Researchers The Practice of Action Inquiry - William R Torbert The Turn to Action and the Linguistic Turn - Lesley Treleaven Towards an Integrated Methodology Educational Action Research - Ken Zeicher PART THREE: EXEMPLARS Working Together, Learning Together - Mark Baldwin Co-Operative Inquiry in the Development of Complex Practice by Teams of Social Workers The Early Mothering Project - Penelope A Barrett What Happened When the Words 'Action Research' Came to Life for a Group of Midwives Citizens' Participation in Natural Resource Management - Yogesh Bhatt and Rajesh Tandon Learning with /f003The Natural Step - Hilary Bradbury Action Research to Promote Conversations for Sustainable Development Transforming Lives - Gloria Bravette Gordon Towards Bicultural Competence Action Research to Develop an Interorganizational Network - Rupert F Chisholm Transpersonal Co-Operative Inquiry - John Heron Using Co-Operative Inquiry to Transform Evaluation of Nursing Students' Clinical Practice - Marcia D Hills Collaborative Inquiry with African-American Community Leaders - James G Kelly, Lynne O Mock and S Darius Tandon Comments on a Participatory Action Research Process Participatory Research and Education for Social Change - Helen M Lewis Highlander Research and Education Center Creative Arts and Photography in Participatory Action Research in Guatemala - M Brinton Lykes The Art of Clinical Inquiry in Information Technology Related Change - Joe McDonagh and David Coghlan The Sights and Sounds of Indigenous Knowledge - Timothy Pyrch and Mar[ac]ia Teresa Castillo Participatory Action Research in Southern Tanzania, with Special Reference to Women - Marja-Liisa Swantz, Elizabeth Ndedya and Mwajuma Saiddy Masaiganah Six Street Youth Who Could... - Elizabeth Whitmore and Colette McKee PART FOUR: SKILLS Collaborative Off-Line Reflection - Jenny W Rudolph, Steven S Taylor and Erica Gabrielle Foldy A Way to Develop Skill in Action Science and Action Inquiry On Working with Graduate Research Students - Peter Reason and Judi Marshall The Mirror, the Magnifying Glass, the Compass and the Map - Yoland Wadsworth Facilitating Participatory Action Research Self-Reflective Inquiry Practices - Judi Marshall The Third Task of Universities or How to Get Universities to Serve Their Communities - G[um]oran Brulin Conclusion - Hilary Bradbury and Peter Reason Broadening the Bandwidth of Validity: Issues as Choice-Points to Ensure Quality in Action Research

Handbook of action research

Abstract: Introduction - Peter Reason and Hilary Bradbury Inquiry and Participation in Search of a World Worthy of Human Aspiration Theory and Practice - Bj[sl]orn Gustavsen The Mediating Discourse Participatory (Action) Research in Social Theory - Orlando Fals Borda Origins and Challenges Action Research in the Workplace - William Pasmore The Socio-Technical Perspective The Infusion of Race into the US Discourse on Action Research - Ella Edmondson Bell Uneven Ground - Patricia Maguire Feminimisms and Action Research Power and Knowledge - John Gaventa and Andrea Cornwall Knowledge in Participatory Research - Peter Park Exploring the Relevance of Critical Theory for Action Research - Stephen Kemmis Humanistic Action Research - John Rowan The Relationship of `Systems Thinking' to Action Research - Robert Louis Flood PRACTICES Action Science - Victor J Friedman Creating Communities of Inquiry in Communities of Practice The Practice of Co-operative Inquiry - John Heron and Peter Reason Research with Rather Than on People Appreciative Inquiry - James D Ludema, David L Cooperrider and Frank J Barrett The Power of the Unconditional Positive Question Large Group Processes as Action Research - Ann W Martin Ethnodrama - Jim Mienczakowski and Stephen Morgan Constructing Participatory, Experiential and Compelling Action Research through Performance Clinical Inquiry/Research - Edgar H Schein Community Action Research - Peter Senge and Otto Scharmer The Practice of Action Inquiry - William R Torbert EXEMPLARS Working Together, Learning Together - Mark Baldwin Co-operative Inquiry in the Development of Complex Practice by Teams of Social Workers The Early Mothering Project - Penny A Barrett What Happened When the Words `Action Research' Came to Life for a Group of Midwives Learing with the Natural Step - Hilary Bradbury Action Research to Promote Conversations for Sustainable Development Transforming Lives - Gloria Bravette Towards Bicultural Competence Action Research To Develop an Interorganizational Network - Rupert F Chisholm Participatory Research and Education for Social Change - Helen M Lewis Highlander Research and Education Center Creative Arts and Photography in Participatory Action Research in Guatemala - M Brinton Lykes The Art of Clinical Inquiry in Information Technology Related Change - Joe McDonagh and David Coghlan Participatory Action Research in Southern Tanzania, with Special Reference to Women - Marja-Liisa Swantz, Elizabeth Ndedya and Mwajuma Saiddy Masaiganah Six Street Youth Who Could... - Bessa Whitmore and Colette McKee SKILLS Collaborative Off-Line Reflection - Jenny W Rudolph, Steven S Taylor and Erica Gabrielle Foldy A Way To Develop Skill in Action Science and Action Inquiry On Supervising Graduate Research Students - Peter Reason and Judi Marshall The Mirror, The Magnifying Glass, The Compass and the Map - Yoland Wadsworth Facilitating Participatory Action Research Self Reflective Inquiry Practices - Judi Marshall Conclusion - Peter Reason and Hilary Bradbury Broadening the Bandwidth of Validity: Issues as Choice-Points to Ensure Quality in Action Research

A Participatory Inquiry Paradigm

Abstract: This article starts with a critique of Guba and Lincoln's outline of competing paradigms for research, in particular arguing that the constructivist position fails to account for experiential knowi...

Human Inquiry : A Sourcebook of New Paradigm Research

Abstract: Sets forth a new paradigm for the philosophy and practice of research in fields of human activity: a collaborative, experimental approach in which inquiry is firmly rooted in subjects' experience of their lives. Covers the philosophy, methodology, practice and prospects of the new paradigm, showing how to do research with people rather than on people. Synthesizes material from researchers pursuing similar paths in Europe, North America, Africa and India as well as relevant reprints and appreciations of classical material.

The Sage handbook of action research : participative inquiry and practice

Abstract: PART ONE: GROUNDINGS Introduction to Groundings - Peter Reason and Hilary Bradbury Living Inquiry - Patricia Gaya Wicks, Peter Reason and Hilary Bradbury Personal, Political and Philosophical Groundings of Action Research Practice Participatory Action Research as Practice - Marja Liisa Swantz Some Trends in the Praxis of Participatory Action Research - Md. Anisur Rahman Action Research and the Challenge of Scope - Bjorn Gustavsen, Agneta Hansson and Thoralf U Qvale Action Research at Work - Hilary Bradbury et al Creating the Future Following the Path from Lewin Continuing the Journey - Colleen Reid and Wendy Frisby Articulating the Dimensions of Feminist Participatory Research Towards Transformational Liberation - M Brinton Lykes and Amelia Mallona Participatory Action Research and Activist Praxis Critical Theory and Participatory Action Research - Stephen Kemmis Systems Thinking and Practice for Action Research - Ray Ison Social Construction and Research as Action - Kenneth J Gergen and Mary M Gergen Power and Knowledge - John Gaventa and Andrea Cornwall Appreciable Worlds and Inspired Inquiry - Danielle P Zandee and David L Cooperrider Ethics and Action Research - Mary Brydon Miller Deepening Our Commitment to Principles of Social Justice and Redefining Systems of Democratic Practice The Future of Universities - Morten Levin and Davydd Greenwood Action Research and the Transformation of Higher Education Action Research, Partnerships and Social Impacts - L David Brown and Rajesh Tandon The Institutional Collaboration of PRIA and IDR PART TWO: PRACTICES Introduction to Practices - Peter Reason and Hilary Bradbury Action Inquiry - William R Torbert and Steven S Taylor Interweaving Multiple Qualities of Attention for Timely Action Action Science - Victor J Friedman and Tim Rogers Linking Causal Theory and Meaning-Making in Action Research Clinical Inquiry/Research - Edgar H Schein The Practice of Appreciative Inquiry - James D Ludema and Ronald E Fry PRA, PLA and Pluralism - Robert Chambers Practice and Theory Action Learning - Mike Pedler and John Burgoyne The Jury Is Out - Tom Wakeford et al How Far Can Participatory Projects Go towards Reclaiming Democracy? Learning History - George Roth and Hilary Bradbury An Action Research Practice in Support of Actionable Learning Extending Epistemology within a Co-Operative Inquiry - John Heron and Peter Reason Action Research in Health Care - Ian Hughes Action Research on a Large Scale - Ann W Martin Issues and Practices Theorizing Audience, Products and Provocation - Michelle Fine and Maria Elena Torre Taking the Action Turn - Sonia Ospina et al Lessons from Bringing Participation to Qualitative Research PART THREE: EXEMPLARS Introduction to Exemplars - Hilary Bradbury and Peter Reason Varieties of Action Research Charismatic Inquiry in Concert - John Heron and Greg Lahood Action Research in the Realm of 'the between' Presentational Knowing - Jennifer Mullett Bridging Experience and Expression with Art, Poetry and Song Working with 'Not Knowing' amid Power Dynamics among Managers - Marianne Kristiansen and Jorgen Bloch-Poulsen From Fault-Finding and Exclusion towards Co-Learning and Inclusion Learning to Love Our Black Selves - Taj Johns Healing from Internalized Oppressions The Tapestry of Leadership - Lyle Yorks et al Lessons from Six Co-Operative Inquiry Groups of Social Justice Leaders The Workplace Stress and Aggression Project - Rita Kowalski, Lyle Yorks and Mariann Jelinek Ways of Knowing - Our Rosetta Stone for Practice Theatre in Participatory Action Research - Meghna Guhathakurta Experiences from Bangladesh Changing the Culture of Dependancy to Allow for Successful Outcomes in Participatory Research - Maria Teresa Castillo, Maria Dolores Viga de Alva and Federico Dickinson 14 Years of Experience in Yucatan, Mexico Health Promotion and Participatory Action Research - Lai Fong Chui The Significance of Participatory Praxis in Developing Participatory Health Intervention 'This Is so Democratic!!' Action Research and Policy Development in East Timor - Ernie Stringer 'No - You Don't Know How We Feel' - Gillian Chowns Collaborative Inquiry Using Children Facing the Life-Threatening Illness of a Parent IT and Action Sense-Making - Chris Dymek Making Sense of a New Technology PART FOUR: SKILLS Introduction to Skills - Peter Reason and Hilary Bradbury Negotiating the Challenges of Participatory Action Research - Jill Grant, Geoff Nelson and Terry Mitchell Relationships, Power, Participation, Change and Credibility Getting in, Getting on, Getting out - Kate Louise McArdle On Working with Second-Person Inquiry Groups Facilitation as Action Research in the Moment - Jenny Mackewn Muddling through - Geoff Mead Facing the Challenges of Managing a Large-Scale Action Research Project Insider Action Research - David Coghlan and A B (Rami) Shani The Dynamics of Developing New Capabilities Teaching Reflective Practice in the Action Science / Action Inquiry Tradition - Steven S Taylor, Jenny W Rudolph and Erica Gabrielle Foldy Key Stages, Concepts and Practices The Praxis of Educating Action Researchers - Morten Levin Finding Form in Writing for Action Research - Judi Marshall Concluding Reflections - Peter Reason and Hilary Bradbury Whither Action Research

Paradigmatic Controversies, Contradictions, and Emerging Confluences.

Abstract: n our chapter for the first edition of the Handbook of Qualitative Research, we focused on the contention among various research paradigms for legitimacy and intellectual and p;uadigmatic hegemony (Guba & Lincoln, 1994). The postmodern paradigms that we discussed (postmodernist critical theory and constructivism) 1 were in contention with the received positivist and postpositivist paradigms for legitimacy, and with one another for intellectual legitimacy. In the half dozen years that have elapsed since that chapter was published, substantial change has occurred in the landscape of social scientific inquiry. On the matter of legitimacy, we observe that readers familiar with the literature on methods and paradigms reflect a high interest in ontologies and epistemologies that differ sharply from those undergirding conventional social science. Second, even those est::~blished professionals trained in quantitative social science (including the two of us) want to learn more about qualitative approaches, because new young professionals being mentored in graduate schools are asking serious questions about and looking for guidance in qualitatively oriented studies and dissertations. Third, the number of qualitative texts, research papers, workshops, and training materials has exploded. Indeed, it would be difficult to miss the distinct turn of the social sciences tow::~rd more interpretive, postmodern, and criticalist practices and theorizing (Bloland, 1989, 1995). This nonpositivist orientation has created a context (surround) in which virtually no study can go unchallenged by proponents of contending paradigms. Further, it

The knowledge-creating company : how Japanese companies create the dynamics of innovation

Abstract: How has Japan become a major economic power, a world leader in the automotive and electronics industries? What is the secret of their success? The consensus has been that, though the Japanese are not particularly innovative, they are exceptionally skilful at imitation, at improving products that already exist. But now two leading Japanese business experts, Ikujiro Nonaka and Hiro Takeuchi, turn this conventional wisdom on its head: Japanese firms are successful, they contend, precisely because they are innovative, because they create new knowledge and use it to produce successful products and technologies. Examining case studies drawn from such firms as Honda, Canon, Matsushita, NEC, 3M, GE, and the U.S. Marines, this book reveals how Japanese companies translate tacit to explicit knowledge and use it to produce new processes, products, and services.