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Problems of ‘Method’ and ‘Aims’ in Action Research

Problems of ‘Method’ and ‘Aims’ in Action Research. Gail Simon 28 th October 2006. Subversion.

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Problems of ‘Method’ and ‘Aims’ in Action Research

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  1. Problems of ‘Method’ and ‘Aims’ in Action Research Gail Simon 28th October 2006

  2. Subversion • “Critical researchers”, say Pearce and Walters, “start from an ethical principle and do research designed to emancipate people from patterns of social relations prejudged to be oppressive, to expose patterns of exploitation, or to subvert structures of power that allow some people to be dominated by others." (Pearce and Walters 1996 p10)

  3. “Radical action research is not a method as such; rather it is the transformation of research into a prefigurative political practice” Ian Parker “Qualitative Psychology: Introducing Radical Research” Open University Press 2005

  4. The Place of Change Theory • ACTION research • A form of ACTIVISM • PRACTICE RESEARCH • Reflection on ACTIVITY

  5. The Problem of Method • There is no method that can be applied in action research. The application of a ‘method’ in research is always fraught with difficulties, for it presupposes that you can fix what there is that will be of interest to you…. • If you are really following through your decision to let your co-researchers determine the issues that are relevant to them, then the ‘method’ itself is likely to be something that will emerge in the course of the research. Ian Parker 2005 p125 For ideas re AR process ideas Stringer, E. (999) Action Research 2nd Edition Sage

  6. Modernist discourses encourage an awareness of ethics in research as opposed to encourage ethical research. I propose that ethics in research is an idea at a level of tools and that ethical research is a discursive practice.

  7. Atomic" or "Daisy" Model of research Pearce & Walters 1996

  8. The Action Research Spiral (Elliot 1980) shows the movement in the process - not necessarily a feedback loop as one might try to create and examine in systemic therapy, so much as a study of a series of events: take action - examine affects - evaluate outcomes and processes - plan next action - take next action – and so on.

  9. Relationships in words • Participatory Action Research • Collaborative Action Research • Co-operative Action Research • Community-based Action Research

  10. Educational activism of Paulo Friere (1972) Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Harmondsworth. Penguin. • Hearing Voices Network – Asylum magazine • Paranoia Network • “Talking about gender, race and class” Elizabeth Frazer in RESEARCHING LANGUAGE: ISSUES OF POWER AND METHOD by Deborah Cameron, Elizabeth Frazer, Penelope Harvey, M B H Rampton, K. Richardson ROUTLEDGE 1992

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