The SAGE Handbook of Action Research

Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Notes on the Editor 
and Contributors
Introduction: How to Situate 
and Define Action Research
Part I Practices
Chapter 
1 Introduction to Practices
Chapter 2 The Practice of Learning History: Local and Open System Approaches
Chapter 3 PRA, PLA and Pluralism:  Practice and Theory
Chapter 4 Developing the Practice of Leading Change Through Insider Action Research: A Dynamic Capability Perspective
Chapter 5 Innovations in Appreciative Inquiry: Critical Appreciative Inquiry with Excluded Pakistani Women
Chapter 6 Collaborative Developmental Action Inquiry
Chapter 7 Systematization of Experiences:  A Practice of Participatory Research from Latin America
Chapter 8 Empowerment Evaluation and Action Research: A Convergence of Values, Principles, and Purpose
Chapter 9 Action Evaluation: An Action Research Practice for the Participative Definition, Monitoring, and Assessment of Success in Social Innovation and Conflict Engagement
Chapter 10 Theatre in Participatory Action Research: Experiences from Bangladesh
Chapter 
11 Using T-Groups to Develop Action Research Skills in Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous Environments
Chapter 
12 The Action Research Practice of Urban Planning – An Example from Hong Kong
Chapter 
13 The Artistry of Emancipatory Practice: Photovoice, Creative Techniques, and Feminist Anti-Racist Participatory Action Research
Chapter 
14 Action Science Revisited: Building Knowledge Out of Practice to Transform Practice
Chapter 
15 Systemic Intervention
Chapter 
16 Community-Based Participatory Research with Communities Defined by Race, Ethnicity, and Disability: Translating Theory to Practice
Chapter 
17 Action Learning
Chapter 
18 The Network Leadership Innovation Lab: A Practice  for Social Change
Chapter 
19 Awareness-Based Action Research: Catching Social Reality Creation in Flight
Chapter 
20 The World Café in Action Research Settings
Chapter 
21 Ethnographic Action Research: Media, Information and Communicative Ecologies for Development Initiatives
Chapter 
22 Re-Fashioning Citizens’ Juries: Participatory Democracy in Action
Chapter 
23 The Practice of Helping Students to Find Their First Person Voice in Creating Living-Theories for Education
Chapter 
24 The Practice of Teaching Co-Operative Inquiry
Part II Exemplars
Chapter 
25 Introduction to Exemplars
Chapter 
26 Symbiosis of Action Research and Deliberative Democracy in the Context of Participatory Constitution-Making
Chapter 
27 Action Research in Universities and Higher Education Worldwide
Chapter  28 ‘I’m Not Afraid of Him; That Dog Barks But He Don’t Bite’. PAR Processes, Gender Equity and Emancipation with Women in Yucatán, Mexico
Chapter 
29 Insurgent Inquiry: Connecting Action Research, Impact Evaluation, and Global Strategy in a Rights-Based International Development NGO
Chapter 30 Action Research with Marginalized Immigrants’ Coming to Voice: Twenty Years of Social Movement Support in Taiwan and Still Going
Chapter 31 Improving Health and Well-being: Researching Alongside Marginalized People Across Diverse Domains
Chapter 32 After a Decade of Action Research: Impactful Systems Improvement in Swedish Healthcare
Chapter 33 Action Research as a Transformative Force in Management Education: Introducing the Collaboratory
Chapter 34 Achieving Equity in Education
Part III Groundings
Chapter 35 Introduction to Groundings
Chapter 36 Praxis – Retrieving the Roots of Action Research
Chapter 37 Core Issues in Modern Epistemology for Action Researchers: Dancing Between Knower and Known
Chapter 38 Social Construction and Research as Action
Chapter 39 How to Succeed in Action Research without Really Acting: Tracing the Development of Action Research to Constructivist Practice in Organizational Worklife
Chapter 40 Organization Development: Action Research for Organizational Change
Chapter 41 Evolutionary Systems Thinking: What Gregory Bateson, Kurt Lewin, and Jacob Moreno Offered to Action Research that Still Remains to be Learned
Chapter 42 How Change Happens: The Implications of Complexity and Systems Thinking for Action Research
Chapter 43 Complex Systems and Emergence in Action Research
Chapter 44 Critical Theory and Critical Participatory Action Research
Chapter 45 Power and Knowledge
Chapter 46 Research, Participation and Social Transformation: Grounding Systematization of Experiences in Latin American Perspectives
Chapter 47 Knowledge Democracy, Community-based Action Research, the Global South and the Excluded North
Chapter 48 Participatory Action Research: Its Origins and Future in Women’s Ways
Chapter 49 The Location of Race in Action Research
Chapter 50 Sex and Sensibilities: Doing Action Research while Respecting  even Inspiring Dignity
Chapter 51 Crowdsourcing and Action Research. Fostering People’s Participation in Research  through Digital Media
Chapter 52 Naturally Emerging Regulation and the Danger of Delegitimizing Conventional Leadership: Drawing on the Example of Wikipedia*
Chapter 53 Action Research in an Online World
Chapter 54 Large Scale Change Action Research
Chapter 55 Companions to Action Research: Reaching Beyond our Networks to Build Alignments and a Common Repository of Resources
Chapter 56 Action Research and Ecological Practice
Chapter 57 Ecofeminism and Systems Thinking: Shared Ethics of  Care for Action Research
Chapter 58 The Integrating (Feminine) Reach of Action Research: A Nonet for Epistemological Voice
Chapter 59 Expanding Reach and Justice  with PAR: Working with More  than Humans
Part IV Skills
Chapter 60 Introduction to Skills
Chapter 61 Widening the Circle: Ethical Reflection in Action Research and the Practice of Structured Ethical Reflection
Chapter 62 The Skillful Means of  Engaged Research
Chapter 63 Feelings in First Person Action Research
Chapter 64 Clearing Obstacles: An Exercise to Expand a Person’s Repertoire of Action
Chapter 65 A Cross-Cultural Approach with East-Asian Epistemology: Developing Soft Skills in Action Research
Chapter 66 Cultivating Intention (As we Enter the Fray): The Skillful Practice of Embodying Presence, Awareness, and Purpose as Action Researchers
Chapter 67 Holding Theory Skillfully in Consulting Interventions
Chapter 68 You Better Check Your Method Before You Wreck Your Method: Challenging and Transforming Photovoice
Chapter 69 Discovering Philosophical Assumptions that Guide  Action Research: The Reflexive Toolbox Approach
Chapter 70 Radical Epistemology as Caffeine for Social Change
Chapter 71 Mediated Dialogue in Action Research
Chapter 72 Teaching the Heart of Action Research Skills: Breaking Free  in the Classroom
Chapter 73 Practice of Mindful Intuition: Bi-directional Openness: The Skill of Expressing and Sensing Leadership that Serves a Group
Chapter 74 Designerly Ways for  Action Research
Chapter 75 Nurturing Creative Destruction: Bringing Management Mindsets and Influence Skillsets  to Health Care
Chapter 76 Teaching and Learning Reflective Practice in the Action Science/Action Inquiry Tradition
Chapter 77 From Research ‘on’ to Research ‘with’: Developing Skills for Research with Sex Workers
Chapter 78 Shared Inquiry Capabilities and Differing Inquiry Preferences: Navigating ‘Full Cycle’ Iterations of Action Research
Chapter 79 Unlocking the Secrets of Personal and Systemic Power: The Power Lab and Action Inquiry in the Classroom
Index