{"title":"Praxeological dialogues from within, handling tensions in dialogical praxis-oriented Action Research","authors":"Catrine Torbjørnsen Halås","doi":"10.3224/ijar.v18i2.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3224/ijar.v18i2.04","url":null,"abstract":"This paper addresses the need to develop concepts and terminology more and better adjusted to knowledge production with and from within practices, and help handle tensions between research and practice in Dialogical Praxis- oriented Action Research. Building on Olav Eikeland’s ideas of dialogues towards Praxis-based Theoria, supported by Hanna Arendt’s perspectives on action, and based on experiences from a concrete project, the question explored, is whether Jakob Meløe’s praxeological perspectives can give us concepts and terminology which can help us handle this challenge. After describing the ideas and methodology of the praxeology, the author discusses its potential impact; To support dialogical deliberative learning processes, acknowledging knowledge as an open-ended question of becoming, and praxis as a form of relational and ethical kind of knowing, empowering the subjects to create new beginnings, engaged in the never-ending process of change.","PeriodicalId":416587,"journal":{"name":"IJAR – International Journal of Action Research","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115563757","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}
Olav Eikeland, S. Frimann, Lone Hersted, Julie Borup Jensen
{"title":"Editorial. Special Issue: Conceptualising Action Research: Basic assumptions and terminology in Action Research","authors":"Olav Eikeland, S. Frimann, Lone Hersted, Julie Borup Jensen","doi":"10.3224/ijar.v18i2.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3224/ijar.v18i2.01","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":416587,"journal":{"name":"IJAR – International Journal of Action Research","volume":"197 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122860597","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":"How to go on? An ethnographic return to the ‘rough ground’ in PAR","authors":"Mark K. Watson","doi":"10.3224/ijar.v18i2.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3224/ijar.v18i2.05","url":null,"abstract":"Inspired by philosophical concerns with ordinary language, I write as a practitioner (and ethnographer) frustrated by how pictures of research that reduce action to quests for rational consensus seemingly blind people to the spontaneous and realistic pull that PAR exerts on participants to return to the “rough ground” of everyday life. Drawing on the case study of an Indigenous radio show in Montreal, I look ethnographically at the transformative qualities of Action (Research) as woven into participants’ response to the more ordinary and immediate question: how to go on? I suggest that what matters in participatory-action is not so much knowing or the failure to know than acknowledging and accepting (or accommodating or refusing) others’ positions and commitments.","PeriodicalId":416587,"journal":{"name":"IJAR – International Journal of Action Research","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128369617","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":"About my learning journey with Action Research. Interview with Danilo Streck","authors":"Miren Larrea, R. Ennals","doi":"10.3224/ijar.v18i2.08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3224/ijar.v18i2.08","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":416587,"journal":{"name":"IJAR – International Journal of Action Research","volume":"85 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127656824","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 conceptualised in seven cornerstones as conditions for transforming education","authors":"Christine Edwards-Groves, Karin Rönnerman","doi":"10.3224/ijar.v18i2.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3224/ijar.v18i2.03","url":null,"abstract":"This article traces the philosophical and theoretical roots of Action Research to rescript its promise for site-based educational formation, reformation and transformation. The process of historicising Action Research through an extensive review of the extant literature, enabled us to establish seven cornerstones that captured the essence of the critical conditions: the practices and practice architectures, that give coherence and comprehensibility to Action Research as necessary for sustained and sustainable change in education. Framing these practices and practice architectures as cornerstones sets down important benefits for contemporary education requiring critical inquiry, rethought purposeful action and systematic responsive development. The cornerstones: contextuality, commitment, communication, collaboration, criticality, collegiality and community, were derived from viewing Action Research from its historical principle committed to democratic way of working. It is our position that the cornerstones account for, acknowledge and extend traditional perspectives and descriptions; and assist practitioners deepen understandings about the conditions necessary for opening up generative possibilities of Action Research in ways that do not neglect or lose sight of its core historical connections and democratic virtues.","PeriodicalId":416587,"journal":{"name":"IJAR – International Journal of Action Research","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114746831","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}
Liliam Maria Orquiza, Laura Sánchez García, Bruno Gabriel Costelini
{"title":"How is Action Research Being Used in Computer Science? A Review","authors":"Liliam Maria Orquiza, Laura Sánchez García, Bruno Gabriel Costelini","doi":"10.3224/ijar.v18i1.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3224/ijar.v18i1.05","url":null,"abstract":"A literature review showcasing what specialists who work and publish scientific papers, involving action research in the field of computer science, think and do. It includes the 97 most cited (ten times or more) Computer Science papers that deal with action research, published between 2010 and 2019, and retrieved from Scopus and Web of Science databases. Specialists in information systems are using action research in various research capabilities, not only in the construction of artifacts, but mainly to improve their communication capacities with users and vice versa.","PeriodicalId":416587,"journal":{"name":"IJAR – International Journal of Action Research","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122255340","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":"Discussion paper: When the Cinderellas unite","authors":"Igor Ahedo Gurrutxaga","doi":"10.3224/ijar.v18i1.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3224/ijar.v18i1.04","url":null,"abstract":"The accelerated context of uncertainty and objective or subjective precariousness in which we are immersed, aggravated by Covid, has dashed the hopes of thousands of people who cannot find comfort in an \"outside\" marked by the weakening of community and identity networks. [...]if we look at the analysis of reality, we must be aware that we work in cracked territories, in a barren land where community ties have been broken, and dozens of broken dolls survive adrift on the currents (Mirowski, 2009). [...]if our practice could be exemplified by this tale, our goal would be for Cinderella to throw off the yoke of those who condemn her to prostration, allowing her to rise up to recreate new forms of power. [...]the text we draw on is a clear example of the various types of dances with power via which AR has got Cinderellas involved over many decades: some shorter, others more intense, some with abrupt ends and others that are still going on. [...]the game of life, in a good fight with neoliberal dystopia, becomes a kind of unbridled dance for survival in which only one person is left dancing at the end. on the wreckage of the rest.","PeriodicalId":416587,"journal":{"name":"IJAR – International Journal of Action Research","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115260664","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":"Articulating inherent values of action research for newcomers coming from the field of territorial development","authors":"Malida Mooken","doi":"10.3224/ijar.v18i1.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3224/ijar.v18i1.06","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses the inherent values of action research for newcomers coming from the field of territorial development. The discussion is framed around three dimensions: 1) inquiring about problematic situations in real-time; 2) contextual-temporal qualities of the process; and 3) reflecting-acting on what we have reasons to value being and doing as researchers, participants, facilitative actors, and citizens. The conceptualisation builds on theoretical influences, most notably the writings of John Dewey and action research for territorial development, and my own practice. Two cases are discussed. One is about a Knowledge Transfer Partnership in Scotland, and the other is with regards to on-going work in the wine-producing territory of British Columbia, Canada.","PeriodicalId":416587,"journal":{"name":"IJAR – International Journal of Action Research","volume":"92 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124162164","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":"40 years in 40 minutes. Interview with Øyvind Pålshaugen","authors":"Danilo B. Streck, Miren Larrea","doi":"10.3224/ijar.v18i1.08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3224/ijar.v18i1.08","url":null,"abstract":"Danilo and Miren: Thank you, Øyvind, for granting this interview to the International Journal of Action Research. After your long trajectory with AR, and also in this journal, we want to integrate your insight in the emergent discussions we propose in this issue about the future challenges of AR. Let us start by giving the reader a perspective of your trajectory. How did you come to AR? You could certainly not study it at university. And how did you come to The Work Research Institute (WRI) in Oslo?","PeriodicalId":416587,"journal":{"name":"IJAR – International Journal of Action Research","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127040725","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}
Olav Eikeland, R. Ennals, W. Fricke, Miren Larrea, Øyvind Pålshaugen, E. Sobottka
{"title":"Tribute to Danilo Streck","authors":"Olav Eikeland, R. Ennals, W. Fricke, Miren Larrea, Øyvind Pålshaugen, E. Sobottka","doi":"10.3224/ijar.v18i1.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3224/ijar.v18i1.02","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":416587,"journal":{"name":"IJAR – International Journal of Action Research","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123868727","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}