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%T Why Should Mainstream Social Researchers Be Interested in Action Research?
%A Eikeland, Olav
%J International Journal of Action Research
%N 1+2
%P 38-64
%V 3
%D 2007
%@ 1861-1303
%~ Rainer Hampp Verlag
%> https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-412887
%X "The essay tries to argue why conventional researchers are obliged as researchers
to be interested in certain forms of action research. The 60 years
of ignorance have been illegitimate. The essay starts by listing two commonly
encountered arguments paraphrasing Karl Marx and Francis Bacon
via Kurt Lewin. It tries to show why a certain simplified reading of Marx
cannot provide the necessary arguments. It then presents different variants
of action research in order to single out approaches that according to this
author require attention from mainstream social researchers. The action
research approach emerging as central, by demonstrating its presence and
effectiveness within mainstream research as well, is immanent critique.
The method of research methodology is immanent critique. Immanent critique
has to be demystified, however. When it is brought down to earth,
immanent critique is really the kind of dialogical and experiential learning
approach associated with apprenticeship learning and with organisational
learning. This conclusion, making self-reflective practitioner-research the
“hard-core” of action research, even internal to mainstream research, also
requires a revision of the experimentalist-as-interventionist credo of action
research." (author's abstract)
%C DEU
%G en
%9 Zeitschriftenartikel
%W GESIS - http://www.gesis.org
%~ SSOAR - http://www.ssoar.info