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

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Handbook of action research : participative inquiry and practice

While there is world-wide agreement on poverty reduction as an overriding goal of development policy, there is little agreement on the definition of poverty. Four approaches to the definition and measurement of poverty are reviewed in this paper: the monetary, capability, social exclusion and participatory approaches. The theoretical underpinnings of the various measures and problems of operationalizing them are pointed out. It is argued that each is a construction of reality, involving numerous judgements, which are often not transparent. The different methods have different implications for policy, and also, to the extent that they point to different people as being poor, for targeting. Empirical work in Peru and India shows that there is significant lack of overlap between the methods with, for example, nearly half the population identified as in poverty according to monetary poverty but not in capability poverty, and conversely. This confirms similar findings elsewhere. Hence, the definition of povert...

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Does it Matter that we do not Agree on the Definition of Poverty? A Comparison of Four Approaches

Relocating Participation Within a Radical Politics of Development: Insights from Political Action and Practice

In this article, we look at the evolving collaborative natural resource management movement in the United States and discuss current calls to evaluate it. We then explore approaches researchers have used to evaluate both specific efforts and the broader movement. Evaluative criteria developed thus far by several researchers show commonalities as well as differences. We argue that evaluation approaches will necessarily vary with the evaluation’s intent, the type of collaborative effort being evaluated, and the values of the evaluator. Evaluators need to consider and make explicit their standards for comparison, criteria, and methods in order to clarify the nature of an evaluation and facilitate the synthesis of findings.

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Evaluating Collaborative Natural Resource Management

If poverty is so painful, why do the poor remain poor? Poor people are not lazy, stupid, or corrupt. Why then is poverty so persistent? Two strands of thinking seem essential to address this question: one is the realities, experiences, and perspectives of poor women and men themselves; and the second is understanding the informal and formal institutions of society with which poor people interact. With this in mind, we draw upon 78 Participatory Poverty Assessment (PPA) reports, which are based on discussions with poor women and men and other stakeholders. These studies were conducted in the 1990s in 47 countries around the world.

PP Vandenberg

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Whose Reality Counts?: Putting the first last