Fundamentals of Action Research

PART ONE: THE ACKNOWLEDGED FOUNDERS The Solution of a Chronic Conflict in Industry - K Lewin Action Research and Minority Problems - K Lewin Research and Minority Problems - K Lewin Frontiers in Group Dynamics II, Channels of Group Life - K Lewin The Institute of Ethnic Affairs Inc - J Collier United States Indian Administration as a Laboratory of Ethnic Relations - J Collier PART TWO: SOME RARELY ACKNOWLEDGED FOUNDATIONS Changing a Stereotype in Industry - A Marrow and J French New Trends in the Investigation of Prejudice - R Lippitt and M Radke The Problem/The Next Moves - G Watson Some Implications of Medical Practice and Social Case Work for Action Research - A T M Wilson The Field of Action Research - I Chein, S W Cook and J Harding Can Research in Social Science Be Both Socially Useful and Scientifically Meaningful? - C Sellitz and S W Cook Tools for Social Change - R Lippitt Action Research and Training in Human Relations Skills Action Research among American Indians - Laura Thompson PART THREE: EARLY ACTION RESEARCH: THEORIZING AND PRACTICE IN THE LATE 1940S AND EARLY 1950S Prejudice in 'Seaside - B Bellow et al A Report of an Action Research Project' The College Study in Intergroup Relations - L A Cook Action Research, Fundamental Research and Educational Practices - S M Corey A Theoretical Approach to Action Research - A Curle Overcoming Resistance to Change - L Coch and J R P French A Systematics for Problems of Action - W Alderson Action Research and Group Dynamics - R Bain Cultural Determinism - E T Prothero A Challenge to Action Research PART FOUR: VARIETIES OF THE FORM Participatory Action Research, Development - O Fals-Borda The Theory and Practice of Participatory Action Research - M A Rahman Ideology and Political Economy in Inquiry - L D Brown and R Tandon Appreciative Inquiry in Organizational Life - D L Cooperrider and S Srivastava Participatory Action Research - W F Whyte, D J Greenwood and Lazes Through Practice to Science in Social Research Participatory Action Research and Action Science Compared - C Argyris and D Schon A Commentary Process Consultation, Action Research and Clinical Inquiry - E H Schein Are They the Same? Action Learning and Action Science - J A Raelin Are They Different? Appreciating Appreciative Inquiry - R Golembiewski Diagnosis and Perspectives on How to Do It Better Integrating Action and Reflection through Co-Operative Inquiry - P Reason Feminist Participatory Action Research - B Gatenby and M Humphries Methodological and Ethical Issues PART FIVE: DEVELOPMENTS IN ACTION RESEARCH IN THE WORKPLACE An Action Research Program for the Personnel Man - W F Whyte Action Research and Industrial Relations - F Blum Three Management Programs and the Theories behind Them - H A Shepard An Action Research Model - H A Shepard Action Research Activities at One Refinery - R A Katzell The Theory and Practice of Action Research in Work Organizations - M Foster Action Research as Applied to Organization Development - M A Frohman, M Sashkin and M Kavanagh An Action Research Program for Increasing Employee Involvement in Problem-Solving - W Pasmore and F Friedlander The Multiple Realities of Organization Development Consultation in Health Care - I L Ramirez and J Bartunek Advances in Appreciative Inquiry as an Organization Development Intervention - G R Bushe PART SIX: DEVELOPMENTS IN ACTION RESEARCH AND SOCIAL CHANGE Action Research and Modern Man - A Shumsky The Military Psychologist during Wartime - C W Greenbaum, I Rogovsky and B Shalit A Model Based on Action Research and Crisis Intervention The Application of Participatory Action Research in Latin America - O Fals Borda Social Change through Collective Reflection with Asian Non-Governmental Development Organizations - L David Brown Foregrounding Politics in Action Research - A Gitling and A Thompson Critical Action Research - E DePoy, A Harman and D Haslett A Model for Social Work Knowing Critical Psychology and Action Research - D Goodley and I Parker Re-Membering Exclusions - M Fine and M E Torre Participatory Action Research in Public Institutions Ethical Dilemmas in Participatory Action Research - M Minkler et al A Case Study from the Disability Community PART SEVEN: ON BEING AN ACTION RESEARCHER Dimensions of the Consultants Job - R Lippitt Transference and Countertransference in Action Research Relationships - G R Ledford Struggle for Knowledge - R Tandon A Personal Journey Ethics in Action Research - A Morton Insider Action Research Projects - D Coghlan Implications for Practising Managers The External Researcher in Participatory Action Research - G Dickinson and Kathryn L Green Seduction and Enlightenment in Feminist Action Research - C Reid Action Research in Management - B Walker and T Haslett Ethical Dilemmas PART EIGHT: ON ACTION RESEARCH KNOWLEDGE Action Research and the Values of the Social Scientist - R Lippitt Action Research - F Blum A Scientific Approach An Assessment of the Scientific Merits of Action Research - G I Susman and R D Evered Action Research and Scientific Method - H Aguinis Presumed Discrepancies and Actual Similarities Action Research - C De Cock In Search of a New Epistemology? Knowing-in-Action - D A Schon The New Scholarship Requires a New Epistemology Is Validity Really an Issue for Participatory Action Research? - R McTaggart Action Research - P Checkland Its Nature and Validity Maximising the Rigor of Action Research - M J Melrose Why Would You Want to? How Could You? PART NINE: RETROSPECTIVES, REFLECTIONS AND REVIEWS OF ACTION RESEARCH Whatever Happened to Action Research? - N Sanford Three Dilemmas of Action Research - R N Rappoport The Origins and Status of Action Research - M Peters and V R Robinson Current Controversies in Action Research - V M J Robinson Action Inquiry Strategies - J H M Ellis and J A Kelly Taking Stock and Moving Forward The Concept of Action Research - H Alrticher et al PART TEN: SOME LIMITS OF ACTION RESEARCH? Training in Community Relations - M Mead A Critical Appreciation of a Book by Ronald Lippitt Action Research - H Hodgkinson A Critique Action Research, the State and Legitimation in Brunei Darussalam - J R Minnis Action Research - C Regehr Underlining or Undermining the Cause? Action Research - D J Greenwood Unfilled Promises and Unmet Challenges Problems of Participation - M David The Limits of Action Research A New Continuity with Colonial Administration - B Cooke Participation in Development Management PART ELEVEN: MILLENIAL ACTION RESEARCH The Action Turn - P Reason and W Torbert Towards a Transformational Social Science Essai - R Calori Real Time/Real Space Research: Connecting Action and Reflection in Organization Studies Metamorphosis - S Katila and S P Merilainen From 'Nice Girls' to 'Nice Bitches' - Resisting Patriarchal Articulations of Professional Identity Pragmatist Philosophy and Action Research - P Reason Readings and Conversation with Richard Rorty Enhancing Pro-Poor Governance in Eastern India - G Williams et al Participation, Politics and Action Research