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Action research as a practice‐based practice

Stephen Kemmis
- 04 Aug 2009 - 
- Vol. 17, Iss: 3, pp 463-474
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Action research is also a meta-practice: a practice that transforms the sayings, doings, and relating that compose those other practices as mentioned in this paper, and it is composed of different kinds of action research as different ways of life.
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Action research changes people’s practices, their understandings of their practices, and the conditions under which they practice. It changes people’s patterns of ‘saying’, ‘doing’ and ‘relating’ to form new patterns – new ways of life. It is a meta‐practice: a practice that changes other practices. It transforms the sayings, doings and relating that compose those other practices. Action research is also a practice, composed of sayings, doing and relating. Different kinds of action research – technical, practical and critical – are composed in different patterns of saying, doing and relating, as different ways of life. This paper suggests that ‘Education for Sustainability’, as an educational movement within the worldwide social movement responding to global warming, may be a paradigm example of critical action research.

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Justice and the Politics of Difference

TL;DR: Young as mentioned in this paper argues that normative theory and public policy should undermine group-based oppression by affirming rather than suppressing social group difference, and argues for a principle of group representation in democratic publics and for group-differentiated policies.
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TL;DR: Habermas as discussed by the authors discusses the crisis of the Critique of Knowledge and the abolition of the theory of knowledge as a social theory, and proposes a theory of self-reflective reflection of the natural sciences.
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The Action Research Planner: Doing Critical Participatory Action Research

TL;DR: The Action Research Planner series has a long history. as mentioned in this paper is the sixth edition of a series that began in 1979 with a modestly produced version for education students at Deakin University in Geelong Australia.
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