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ACTION ACTION RESEARCHRESEARCH

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MEANING:

• Given by Reason and Bradbury, 2001.

• Action research is an interactive inquiry process that balances problem-solving actions implemented in a collaborative context with data-driven collaborative analysis or research to understand underlying causes enabling future predictions about personal and organizational change.

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Inquiry-based research that follows a

process of examining existing practices,

implementing new practices, and

evaluating the results ,leading to an

improvement cycle

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Contd….

Other names of Action Research:

• Participatory research

• Collaborative research

• Emancipatory research

• Action learning

• Contextural research

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Contd….

In simple words,

LEARNING BY DOING

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PRINCIPLES OF ACTION RESEARCH:

• Given by Winter (1989); 6 key principles.

1. REFLEXIVE CRITIQUE:-

this principle ensures that people

reflect on issues and processes and make explicit the interpretations, biases, assumptions and concerns upon which judgments are made.

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This implies Practical accounts can give rise to Theoretical considerations.

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2. DIALECTICAL CRITIQUE:

• Reality is consensually validated ; i.e it is shared through language.

• Phenomena are conceptualized in dialogue.

• Therefore, a Dialectical critique is required to understand the set of relationships both between the phenomenon and its context and between the elements constituting the phenomenon.

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3. COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH:

• In the principle of Collaborative, resources pre-supposes that each person’s ideas are equally significant as potential resources for creating interpretive categories of analysis, negotiated among the participants.

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4. RISK:

• Initiators of Action Research will use this principle of risk to improve others’ fears and invite participation by pointing out that they too, will be subject to the same process, and that whatever the outcome, learning will take place.

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5.PLURAL STRUCTURE:

• Multiplicity of views leads to multiple possible actions and interpretations.

• Therefore, this plural structure of inquiry requires a plural text for reporting.

• This implies, there will be range of options for action presented.

• therefore., a report acts as a support for on-going discussion among collaborators rather than a final conclusion.

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6. THEORY, PRACTICE, TRANSFORMATION:

• For Action Researchers,

Theory informs practice

Practice refines theory in a continuous

transformation. Theory and Practice are

intertwined aspects of a single change

process.

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ACTION RESEARCH MODEL AND ACTION RESEARCH PROCESS

MODEL: Stephen Kemmis has developed a simple model of the cyclic nature of the typical action research process.

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PROCESS:

1.Diagnosing &Identifying or Defining a problem.

2.Action Planning &Considering alternative courses of action.

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ACTION PLANNING

Considering alternative courses

of action

TAKING ACTION

Selecting a course of action

EVALUATING

Studying the consequences of an

action

SPECIFYING LEARNING

Indentifying general findings

DIAGNOSING

Indentfying or defining a problem

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3. Taking Action: Selecting a course of action.

4.Evaluating & Studying the consequences of an action.

5.Specifying Learning &Identifying general findings.

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TOOLS OF ACTION RESEARCH:

• Research Journal.

• Document Collection & Analysis.

• Participant Observation recordings.

• Questionnaire.

• Surveys.

• Structured & Unstructured interviews.

• Case Studies.