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{"title":"Democracy, Work and Humanisation: Dedicated to Werner Fricke for His Contribution to Action Research","authors":"D. Streck, E. Sobottka, Øyvind Pålshaugen, R. Ennals, Sabine Pfeiffer","doi":"10.3224/IJAR.V13I2.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3224/IJAR.V13I2.01","url":null,"abstract":"----- Bibliography: Streck, Danilo R./Sobottka, Emil A./Palshaugen, Oyvind/Ennals, Richard/Pfeiffer, Sabine: Democracy, Work and Humanisation: Dedicated to Werner Fricke for his contribution to action research, IJAR, 2-2017, pp. 97-99. https://doi.org/10.3224/ijar.v13i2.01","PeriodicalId":39289,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Action Research","volume":"13 1","pages":"97-99"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3224/IJAR.V13I2.01","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41723841","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Action Research and the Promotion of Democracy","authors":"B. Gustavsen","doi":"10.3224/IJAR.V13I2.28879","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3224/IJAR.V13I2.28879","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract A major effort to promote not only workplace democracy, but democracy in general, with the help of action research, occurred with The Quality of Working Life Movement. From around 1970 the movement made major advances, to die out as an international movement around 1990. The major pressure under which democracy finds itself today makes it of interest to recall the experiences from this movement, with a view to what can be learnt of relevance to the present situation. Can action research help promote democracy? At the core of the discussion is the relationship between theoretical constructions and practical experiences. Keywords: Action research, democracy, innovation, learning from differences, Quality of Working Life, theory and practice ----- La Investigacion-Accion y la promocion de la democracia Resumen Un gran esfuerzo para promover no solo la democracia en el lugar de trabajo, sino la democracia en general, con la ayuda de la Investigacion-Accion, ocurrio con el Movimiento de Calidad de la Vida Laboral. Desde aproximadamente 1970 el movimiento hizo grandes avances, para luego desaparecer como un movimiento internacional alrededor de 1990. La principal presion bajo la cual se encuentra la democracia hoy en dia hace que sea de interes recordar las experiencias de este movimiento, en vistas a lo que se puede aprender de relevancia para la situacion actual. ?Puede la Investigacion- Accion ayudar a promover la democracia? En el centro de la discusion se encuentra la relacion entre construcciones teoricas y experiencias practicas. Palabras clave: Investigacion-Accion, democracia, innovacion, aprender de las diferencias, Calidad de la Vida Laboral, teoria y practica. ----- Bibliography: Gustavsen, Bjorn: Action Research and the Promotion of Democracy, IJAR, 2-2017, pp. 101-111. https://doi.org/10.3224/ijar.v13i2.02","PeriodicalId":39289,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Action Research","volume":"13 1","pages":"101-111"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46883362","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Using the Democratic Past to End Neoliberalism in Universities: Action Research, Socio-technical Systems Design, and the Global Future","authors":"D. Greenwood","doi":"10.3224/IJAR.V13I2.28883","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3224/IJAR.V13I2.28883","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Honouring Werner Fricke means carrying on his work. This essay argues for the applicability of the lessons and strategies learned from the successes of the “socio-technical systems design” and “industrial democracy” movement to the reconstruction of universities as stakeholder ‒ designed and managed organisations. Universities must now conduct research and teach in ways that promote social mobility and solidarity, and prepare new generations to reclaim welfare states from the global inequality and environmental collapse created by neoliberalism. Doing this means fundamental organisational change away from Neo-Taylorism by means of approaches learned in the previous generations of the industrial democracy movement. Keywords: industrial democracy, Neo-Taylorism, neoliberalism, socio-technical systems design, Universities ----- Usando el pasado democratico para acabar con el neoliberalismo en las universidades: Investigacion-Accion, Diseno de Sistemas Socio-tecnicos y el Futuro Global Resumen Honrar a Werner Fricke significa llevar adelante su trabajo. Este ensayo aboga por la aplicabilidad de las lecciones y estrategias aprendidas de los exitos del movimiento de “diseno de sistemas ociotecnicos” y “democracia industrial” en la reconstruccion de la universidad como organizaciones disenadas y gestionadas por los actores interesados e involucrados. Las universidades deben ahora realizar investigaciones y ensenar de forma que promuevan la movilidad social y la solidaridad, y preparen a las nuevas generaciones para recuperar los estados de bienestar de la desigualdad global y el colapso ambiental creado por el neoliberalismo. Hacer esto significa un cambio organizativo fundamental alejado del Neo-Taylorismo mediante enfoques aprendidos en las generaciones anteriores del movimiento de la democracia industrial. Palabras clave: Democracia industrial, Neo-Taylorismo, neoliberalismo, diseno de sistemas ociotecnicos, universidades. ----- Bibliography: Greenwood, Davydd J.: Using the Democratic Past to End Neoliberalism in Universities: Action Research, Socio-technical Systems Design, and the Global Future, IJAR, 2-2017, pp. 178-190. https://doi.org/10.3224/ijar.v13i2.06","PeriodicalId":39289,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Action Research","volume":"13 1","pages":"178-190"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48385995","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Action Research story of a student–teacher: Change is not easy and it takes time, effort, and critical reflection","authors":"Nicolina Eriksson, Jan-Erik Romar, B. Dyson","doi":"10.3224/IJAR.V13I1.27617","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3224/IJAR.V13I1.27617","url":null,"abstract":"IntroductionA new national curriculum will be implemented in Finland at the beginning of the 20162017 school year. Although the Finnish education system is already child-centered and liberal (Sahlberg 2011), the overall goal of the new curriculum is to give students more independence by giving them responsibility for their own learning through an emphasis on the joy of learning and students' active role (Finnish National Board of Education 2015). More specifically, in physical education (PE), students should become active participants who are able to cooperate and help each other (Finnish National Core Curriculum for Basic Education 2014). This significant change is one reason teachers should find new methods of teaching physical education. For the first time ever, model-based practice and Sport Education (SE) in particular have been included in the teacher guidelines of the Finnish National Core Curriculum for Basic Education (Utbildningsstyrelsen 2014) as a method of enriching PE.The SE model is an internationally used and researched model that has had several positive outcomes (Layne & Hastie 2015), and it will be further developed in later sections. It is also gaining more traction in countries that do not primarily speak English, though studies in these countries are still limited, as well as textbooks in languages other than English (Glotova 2011). There is a gap in the literature base about model-based practice in Scandinavia (Romar 2013; Romar, Ahlroos, Flykt, & Penttinen 2015). Although there has been an initial effort in Finland (Romar, Henriksson, Ketomaki, & Hastie 2016), there is still a need for more research on the implementation of SE in Finnish schools.In addition, Araujo, Mesquita, and Hastie (2014) pointed out that there are still several gaps in international SE research, which they suggested could be filled through action research in SE. This was one of the main reasons I wanted to study SE through action research. I chose to do so during my final student-teacher experience as a way of increasing my knowledge of innovative model-based practices, which are also expected in researchbased teacher education programmes in Finland (Niemi & Nevgi 2014). Research-oriented teacher education has received credit as well as criticism due to the relation between research and practice. By situating action research in teacher education, educators assume that authentic researcher experiences will help preservice teachers translate theory into practice, particularly when dealing with innovative instructional strategies (Kemmis 2010). Furthermore, Eklund (2014) proposed that action research could be a solution to preservice teachers' dilemma. Though teachers understand and see the logic of the research orientation, they feel that research-based teacher education does not give them enough practical tools.All first-person references in this article refer to Nicolina, as I was the practitioner in this study. When drawing conclusions and implicati","PeriodicalId":39289,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Action Research","volume":"13 1","pages":"51-74"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43384527","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Four contexts of action research : Crossing boundaries for productive interplay","authors":"Gerrit Jan Schuiling, H. Vermaak","doi":"10.3224/IJAR.V13I1.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3224/IJAR.V13I1.02","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper explores how action research takes place within and between four contexts: adding practical value, improving institutions, developing professions, and contributing to theory. We argue that action research is more than those activities conducted within these contexts: it is a process of handling the generative tensions in the boundary regions. Framing action research this way has proven helpful in recasting such tensions as meaningful, in thinking through research designs in teaching and practice, and in paying sufficient attention to boundary work. This model for conceptualising action research has been refined over two decades of practice and reflection by the authors. Keywords: Action research, context, tension, contradiction, boundary work, design ----- Cuatro contextos de investigacion accion: Cruzando fronteras para una interaccion productiva Resumen Este articulo presenta un modelo de investigacion accion que distingue cuatro contextos en donde este tipo de investigacion tiene lugar: aportando valor practico, mejorando las instituciones, desarrollando profesiones e investigando la teoria. Argumentamos que la investigacion accion no es solo una combinacion de actividades dentro de alguno de estos contextos, pero mas importante es un proceso de manejo de las tensiones generativas en las regiones fronterizas entre contextos. En este articulo, primero discutimos los contextos, identificamos sus contrastes y senalamos las tensiones que estos pueden crear. Seguidamente, mostramos como el ‘tetra-modelo’ resultante puede ser usado para guiar elecciones de diseno, ayudando a una investigacion accion a medida para situaciones especificas y objetivas. Tanto el modelo como su aplicacion han sido perfeccionados durante dos decadas de practica continua y reflexion de los autores. Palabras Clave: Investigacion accion, perspectiva multi-contexto, contradiccion, diseno, cruce de fronteras ----- Bibliography: Schuiling, Gertjan/Vermaak, Hans: Four contexts of action research: Crossing boundaries for productive interplay, IJAR, 1-2017, pp. 5-23. https://doi.org/10.3224/ijar.v13i1.02","PeriodicalId":39289,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Action Research","volume":"13 1","pages":"5-23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49572112","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Teaching in the History of Education: A Transdisciplinary Perspective","authors":"A. M. Vieira","doi":"10.3224/ijar.v13i1.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3224/ijar.v13i1.04","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The study aims to discuss teaching with research in History of Education in a transdisciplinary perspective, using primary sources and new goals. In this way, subjects that were not of interest to traditional history such as educational institutions and the lives of teachers, were studied by the students of a Pedagogy course at a higher education institution. The methodology used was action research, which enabled academics, in addition to the development of skills related to historical research, to analyse data collected from sociological, political, legislative, economic and educational points of view, with links between these different areas. Theoretical support was sought in the work of Nicolescu (1997), Revel (1998), Novoa (2002) and Tripp (2005), among others. The results were favorable and showed that differentiated teaching practices enabled the understanding of historical facts in their interrelationships with other sciences. Keywords: History of Education, action research, transdisciplinary ----- La ensenanza de la Historia de la Educacion: una perspectiva transdisciplinaria Resumen El estudio tiene por objetivo discutir la ensenanza con investigacion en Historia de la Educacion, en una perspectiva transdisciplinaria, con la utilizacion de fuentes primarias y nuevos objetos. Asi, temas que no interesaban a la historia tradicional, como las instituciones escolares y la vida de profesores, fueron investigados por los alumnos del curso de Pedagogia de una institucion de educacion superior. La metodologia adoptada fue la investigacion accion, lo que posibilito a los academicos, ademas del desarrollo de cualificaciones relacionadas a la investigacion historica, analizar los datos recolectados bajo el punto de vista sociologico, politico, legislativo, economico y educacional, con articulacion entre esas diferentes areas. Se busco apoyo teorico en los trabajos de Nicolescu (1997), Revel (1998), Novoa (2002) y Tripp (2005), entre otros. Los resultados fueron favorables y demostraron que la practica pedagogica diferenciada posibilito la comprension de los hechos historicos em sus interrelaciones con otras ciencias. Palabras-clave: practica pedagogica; transdisciplinaridad; ensenanza con investigacion ----- Bibliography: Dudeque Pianovski Vieira, Alboni Marisa: Teaching in the History of Education: a transdisciplinary perspective, IJAR, 1-2017, pp. 39-50. https://doi.org/10.3224/ijar.v13i1.04","PeriodicalId":39289,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Action Research","volume":"13 1","pages":"39-50"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41703474","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Mixed Methods Research on Teachers' Beliefs about Action Research in Second Language Education","authors":"Vahid Rahmani Voqaruni, B. Ghonsooly, R. Pishghadam","doi":"10.3224/IJAR.V13I1.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3224/IJAR.V13I1.06","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Despite the fact that the beliefs about action research (AR) are considered essential for teachers’ professional development, teachers’ beliefs about AR have not been studied in any systematic way in second language education. This study is thus an attempt to fill the gap through examining Iranian teachers’ beliefs about AR. The present study used a mixed methods design, i.e. questionnaire and interview, to gain a richer understanding of the participants’ beliefs about AR. The participants were 65 English teachers from 5 private English language teaching institutions. The findings revealed that most of the teachers equated AR with observation, had the ability to distinguish between AR and standard research, preferred collaborative AR, and, in contrast to the mainstream research, did not believe AR to be a way to professional development. The results also showed that while AR is not unknown among these teachers, its use is not widespread, which highlights the need for organizational, practical and intellectual support from responsible agencies. Keywords: teachers’ beliefs, action research, mixed methods design, questionnaire, interview ----- Una Investigacion de Metodos Mixtos sobre las Creencias de los Profesores sobre la Investigacion Accion en la Educacion de una Segunda Lengua Resumen A pesar del hecho de que las creencias sobre la investigacion accion (IA) son consideradas esenciales para el desarrollo profesional de los profesores, las creencias de los profesores sobre la IA no han sido estudiadas de manera sistematica en la educacion de una segunda lengua. Asi, este estudio es un intento de llenar ese vacio, examinando las creencias de los profesores iranies acerca de la IA. El presente estudio utilizo un diseno de metodos mixtos, es decir, cuestionario y entrevista, para obtener una comprension mas rica de las creencias de los participantes acerca de la IA. Los participantes fueron 65 profesores de Ingles de 5 instituciones privadas de ensenanza del idioma Ingles. Los hallazgos revelaron que la mayoria de los profesores equipararon la IA con la observacion, tuvieron la habilidad de distinguir entre la IA y la investigacion estandar, IA colaborativa preferida, y, en contraste con la corriente principal de investigacion, no creyeron en la IA como una forma de desarrollo profesional. Los resultados tambien mostraron que, si bien la IA no es desconocida entre estos profesores, su uso no esta muy extendido, lo que pone de relieve la necesidad de apoyo organizativo, practico e intelectual de las agencias responsables. Palabras Clave: creencias de profesores, investigacion accion, diseno de metodos mixtos, cuestionario, entrevista ----- Bibliography: Doqaruni, Vahid Rahmani/Ghonsooly, Behzad/Pishghadam, Reza: A Mixed Methods Research on Teachers' Beliefs about Action Research in Second Language Education, IJAR, 1-2017, pp. 75-94. https://doi.org/10.3224/ijar.v13i1.06","PeriodicalId":39289,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Action Research","volume":"13 1","pages":"75-94"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46775911","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Using dialogue arenas to manage boundaries between sectors and disciplines in environmental research projects","authors":"Joacim Rosenlund, E. Rosell","doi":"10.3224/IJAR.V13I1.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3224/IJAR.V13I1.03","url":null,"abstract":"An interactive research strategy, a form of action research, was used in two environmental research projects. This strategy emphasises a balance between research and practice. Further, the method o ...","PeriodicalId":39289,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Action Research","volume":"13 1","pages":"24-38"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48783496","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Werner Fricke, Hilde Wagner (Eds.) (2012).Demokratisierung der Arbeit. Neuansätze fürHumanisierung und Wirtschaftsdemokratie(The democratization of work: New approachesto humanisation and economic democracy)","authors":"M. Höhn","doi":"10.3224/ijar.v10i1.26715","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3224/ijar.v10i1.26715","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39289,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Action Research","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69578462","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Challenges of participation in cross-cultural Action Research","authors":"Sirkku Maennikkoe Barbutiu","doi":"10.1688/IJAR-2016-03-BARBUTIU","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1688/IJAR-2016-03-BARBUTIU","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, the challenges of conducting participatory action research in cross-cultural contexts where different historical, political, social, and cultural backgrounds of the participants mark the interaction are discussed. Empirical data is drawn from a one-year educational development project including participants residing in a country in Sub Saharan Africa and in a country in Northern Europe. As participation is one of the crucial and controversial issues in conducting action research, it is scrutinised through several key incidents that took place during the project period. These will illustrate the complex dynamics of collaboration between the participating actors, such as researchers and teacher educators on one hand, and schoolteachers on the other, who came together to conduct participatory action research. In the concluding discussion, the importance and challenges of exercising participatory practices, and nurturing collaboration beyond differences are further elaborated and some recommendations presented.","PeriodicalId":39289,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Action Research","volume":"12 1","pages":"224-247"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67590547","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}