IJAR – International Journal of Action Research最新文献

{"title":"On Social Productivity and Future Perspectives on Action Research","authors":"W. Fricke, D. Greenwood, Miren Larrea, Danilo B. Streck","doi":"10.3224/ijar.v18i1.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3224/ijar.v18i1.03","url":null,"abstract":"The paper addresses some of the consequences of neoliberalism in our societies and argues that the phenomena that is being discussed under the label of surveillance capitalism has deep implications regarding action research. It fractures individuals into apolitical wants and needs, neutralising the core of action research which is the integrity of the individual and the social fabric. But this can be a two-way relationship, and action research can contribute to counteracting these trends by recreating the citizen actor and integrating individuals in society. To discuss how this can be done in practice, the paper shares some positive deviants, which are positive examples that emerge under unfavorable conditions. Through their discussion the paper poses future-oriented perspectives on action research.","PeriodicalId":416587,"journal":{"name":"IJAR – International Journal of Action Research","volume":"287 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":"116527624","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":"Editorial: Future perspectives on action research","authors":"Miren Larrea","doi":"10.3224/ijar.v18i1.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3224/ijar.v18i1.01","url":null,"abstract":"This is my first editorial as editor in chief of International Journal of Action Research (IJAR), and I am happy to open it by referring to the first contribution in this issue, a tribute to Danilo Streck, who has preceded me serving our journal for 12 years, from 2010 to 2021. The tribute is signed byWerner Fricke, who made the initial proposal and Olav Eikeland, Richard Ennals, Øyvind Palshaugen, Emil Albert Sobottka and me, who have had the pleasure to work with Danilo in the group of editors of IJAR in recent years. As part of the same transition process, Øyvind Palshaugen will not continue as editor in the future. It is thus a good moment to learn from his experience with action research, which we do through an interview entitled “40 years in 40 minutes” where Øyvind starts by sharing how he came to action research; reflects on relevant authors, organisations and traditions in his trajectory, and discusses the “use of words” and the relevance of action research cases as a mean to create knowledge of general value. These changes in IJAR take place in a moment when humanity is dealing, among others, with a pandemic, wars, and the imminent need to react to climate change. We need, thus, to continue asking ourselves what was, what is, and what can be the contribution of action research to social challenges. Werner Fricke, Davydd Greenwood, Danilo Streck and I have been writing about it since we met in the IJAR 2020 event. At that moment Werner Fricke posed the emergent challenges he saw for action research and invited the rest of us to develop a coherent argument about it without hiding our differences and diverse priorities. We believe we have come together with an article, “On Social Productivity and Future Perspectives on Action Research”, that manifests ways of making our differences count. Our exploration of common ground starts by acknowledging that the new forms of capitalism are fracturing individuals into apolitical wants and needs, neutralising the core of action research, which is the integrity of the individual and the social fabric. Based on the discussion of free market, disaster capitalism and surveillance capitalism, we have searched for positive deviants. These are action research related processes where participants aim at counteracting these trends in some way or other. Learning from these experiences, we discuss how action research can contribute to re-creating the citizen-actor, and to integrating individuals in society. Our aim with this paper is not to provide any definite answers, but to initiate a dialogue forum in IJAR on the future perspectives of action research, stimulating a discussion about the questions raised. Regarding the actual and historical strengths and weaknesses of action research and the social and economic changes that have occurred since the times of Kurt Lewin and Karl Polanyi we think the time has come to reflect on whether and how action research can meet the challenges of the more and more aggressi","PeriodicalId":416587,"journal":{"name":"IJAR – International Journal of Action Research","volume":"27 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":"121079528","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":"Surveil and Control: A critical review of “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism”","authors":"Jan Zygmuntowski","doi":"10.3224/ijar.v18i1.07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3224/ijar.v18i1.07","url":null,"abstract":"Surveillance capitalism has taken popular imagination by storm, and the scholarly world quickly followed. It is the nom du jour if one attempts to briefly describe the current regime of datafication for profit, and the power-hungry technology companies which increasingly dominate markets and societies. It serves as the intellectual backbone of Netflix’s The Social Dilemma, and that one necessary critical reference in articles across disciplines. But having read Shoshanna Zuboff’s “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism”, I suspect the concept has taken a life of its own, reinterpreted, expanded beyond Zuboff’s account of behavioural manipulation industry. It is a sign of a great oeuvre and a dazzling artist, but much less of critical accuracy. A long-time student of managers and firms, Zuboff adopts a functionalist, positivist lens to portray the rise of a new mode of accumulation. Her narrative draws heavily from the companies’ own accounts, dozens of interviews with data scientists and other accessible materials on business development. With a far from apologetic stance, the Harvard Business School professor openly admits the failings of neoliberal dogma and draws from intellectual traditions of heterodox schools. Hayek, Friedman and Jensen receive no mercy when Zuboff unpacks their political economy as in fact stripping people of agency and subduing them to the market. Instead, the book is rich with Polanyi’s “fictitious commodities” and “double movement”, Marx-inspired “behavioral surplus” and Harvey’s “accumulation by dispossession”. Big Tech’s “coup from above” (p. 463) is one of the book’s excellent metaphors, clearly pointing to the stakes of the conflict en large: the loss of human sovereignty, a precondition for collective action and social order. Zuboff warns of this danger to democracy and free will, and the alarm has since rung true, be it in the case of algorithmically amplified genocide in Myanmar, or people unable to take sound decisions thanks to COVID-19 vaccine disinformation. The book reads essentially as a manifesto of uncertainty-as-liberty, human unpredictability and possibility of other futures, although a viable proposal of the better future is missing from this picture. “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism” employs Arendt’s ideas on free will to battle the impossible vision of perfect information and full rationality, now powering the fanaticism of fully automated smart contracts.","PeriodicalId":416587,"journal":{"name":"IJAR – International Journal of Action Research","volume":"20 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":"116728663","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":"“Life as Action Research”. Interview with Richard Ennals by Miren Larrea and Danilo Streck","authors":"Miren Larrea, D. Streck","doi":"10.3224/ijar.v17i3.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3224/ijar.v17i3.05","url":null,"abstract":"About Richard Ennals Richard Ennals was educated at King’s College School Wimbledon, Phillips Academy Massachusetts, King’s College Cambridge, London University Institute of Education, and Imperial College of Science and Technology. Richard taught History in the UK and Nigeria, before becoming a researcher and then research manager in Advanced Information Technology, at Imperial College and in the UK Government Department of Trade and Industry. He resigned his posts in December 1985, when the UKGovernment signed a secret Memorandum of Understanding to participate in the American Strategic Defense Initiative, thus endangering the research he was managing. He joined a successful campaign to prevent UK involvement. Richard moved to Kingston College, then to Kingston University, where he was Professor at Kingston Business School from 1990. His research was based on collaboration in Sweden (National Institute for Working Life and Royal Institute of Technology) and Norway (Work Research Institute and Centre for Senior Policy), and on working with the European Commission. In the UK in 1997 he was co-founder of the UK Work Organisation Network. Richard has been Emeritus Professor at Kingston University since 2013. He currently has part-time Professorial posts at the University of Agder (Norway) and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He has Visiting Professorial posts at Mykolas Romeris University and Kazimieras Simonavicaius University (Lithuania), where he has an Honorary Doctorate, as well as engaging in research with Kathmandu University (Nepal), Sabanci University (Turkey) and the University of Cape Town (South Africa). The common themes are participation and empowerment. He is an Editor of the International Journal of Action Research and Editor in Chief of the European Journal of Workplace Innovation. He is author or editor of numerous books, on Education, Information Technology, Working Life and Innovation. For example: Beginning micro-PROLOG. Ellis Horwood, Chichester 1983. Star Wars: A Question of Initiative. Wiley, Chichester 1986. Artificial Intelligence State of the Art Report (Editor). Pergamon Infotech, London 1987. Work Organisation and Europe as a Development Coalition. (with Bjorn Gustavsen). Benjamin, Amsterdam 1999. Work Life 2000: Yearbooks 1, 2, 3. Springer, London, 1999, 2000, 2001. Dialogue, Skill and Tacit Knowledge. (Edited with Bo Goranzon and Maria Hammaren). Wiley, Chichester 2006. From Slavery to Citizenship. Wiley, Chichester 2007. Learning together for local innovation: promoting learning regions. (Edited with Bjorn Gustavsen and Barry Nyhan). Cedefop, Luxembourg 2007. Creating Collaborative Advantage: Innovation and Knowledge Creation in Regional Economies. (Edited with Hans Christian Garmann Johnsen). Gower, Farnham 2012. Coping with the Future: Rethinking Assumptions for Society, Business and Work. (Edited with Hans Christian Garmann Johnsen and Halvor Holtskog). Routledge, London 2018.","PeriodicalId":416587,"journal":{"name":"IJAR – International Journal of Action Research","volume":"94 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124742163","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 Creative Framework of Online Teaching of Public Relations Modules during the Covid-19 Pandemic: An Action Research Approach","authors":"L. Alsaqer","doi":"10.3224/ijar.v17i3.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3224/ijar.v17i3.03","url":null,"abstract":"The education of public relations and media modules has been tied in the literature to the professionalism of these disciplines. The contribution of this paper is that it is the first paper that has used a reflective action research methodology to improve the on-line teaching of skill-oriented modules of public relations at the university-level in Bahrain during Covid-19. The instructor/researcher developed two action research cycles where she planned and implemented new teaching strategies based on the students’ needs, observed, evaluated, and reflected. The paper finds that action research has been useful in creating a collaborative relationship with the students, and helped to reflect on the e-learning process of public relations modules. The paper recommends the use of action research to improve new creative strategies of teaching other media and mass communication modules at the university-level during the Covid-19 pandemic. Moreover, the researcher invites future scholars to take the results of this research further, and use action research to improve creative educational methods that would improve high education in Bahrain after the Covid-19 pandemic.","PeriodicalId":416587,"journal":{"name":"IJAR – International Journal of Action Research","volume":"146 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116205011","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":"Systematisation of experiences within the framework of the pedagogical approach towards territorial development: a contribution to action research from the Latin American tradition","authors":"P. Costamagna, Eleonora Spinelli","doi":"10.3224/ijar.v17i3.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3224/ijar.v17i3.02","url":null,"abstract":"This article attempts to link different approaches to action research by sharing a concept that holds an important place in the processes related to participatory action research in Latin America. Such a concept is systematisation. In Latin America, the framework of the systematisation of experiences indicates that it is a particular research method generated from popular education and social work, and that it shares its commitments regarding social transformation. Systematisation arises as a proposal that is based on and learns from accumulated experiences, along with new forms of participatory research and evaluation. Thus, one of the ever-present challenges is to define knowledge production methodologies appropriate to the way of thinking and acting of those who depart from practice, from action (Centro de Estudios para la Educación Popular CEPEP, 2010). Within this framework, the concept of systematisation and its challenges in the specific context of territorial development in Argentina are addressed in order to integrate new learning into action research debates, not only in Latin America, but also outside its boundaries. To this purpose, we rely on the lessons learned by a team from the Universidad Tecnológica Nacional (UTN) from Argentina based in Rafaela (Santa Fe, Argentina) working for the Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales Praxis. This team has been interacting with action research teams from the Basque Country (Spain) and the University of Agder (Norway), a space where the systematisation of experiences has emerged as a relevant and unknown methodological element in the aforementioned European contexts.","PeriodicalId":416587,"journal":{"name":"IJAR – International Journal of Action Research","volume":"160 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126644641","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 implementation of a bakery sales project during the COVID-19 pandemic to improve the employability of Semai indigenous students","authors":"Zainoriza Zainun, Mohd Syafiq Aiman Mat Noor","doi":"10.3224/ijar.v17i3.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3224/ijar.v17i3.04","url":null,"abstract":"During the COVID-19 pandemic, the practitioner and author of this practice in action took the initiative to carry out a piece of action research, by running a bakery sales project with Semai indigenous students. She found that running this project online and remotely was less successful than anticipated, due to the lack of physical proximity and issues with internet connectivity. Thus, in this practice in action, the resulting action research is discussed qualitatively and narratively, asking the following question: how can the practitioner enhance her practice as a special education teacher of Specific Vocational Skills (Bread Making), to improve the employability of Semai indigenous students through a bakery sales project? The bakery sales project not only exposed students to the work environment, but also enabled the practitioner to improve her content knowledge and pedagogy, especially with regard to developing meaningful lessons during the COVID-19 pandemic.","PeriodicalId":416587,"journal":{"name":"IJAR – International Journal of Action Research","volume":"179 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131229266","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 is not only a method.” 5 questions answered by Marianne Kristiansen and Jørgen Bloch-Poulsen, authors of “Action Research in Organizations. Participation in Change Processes”","authors":"","doi":"10.3224/ijar.v17i2.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3224/ijar.v17i2.06","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":416587,"journal":{"name":"IJAR – International Journal of Action Research","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133265193","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":"Co-construction of territorial and sociodemographic data in a poor informal neighborhood with high socio-environmental vulnerability in the city of La Plata, Argentina","authors":"Tomás Canevari","doi":"10.3224/ijar.v17i2.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3224/ijar.v17i2.05","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the results of a census carried out in the largest of the 164 informal settlements currently in existence in the city of La Plata, capital of the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The objective is to define territorial and sociodemographic data of this poor informal neighbourhood with high socio-environmental vulnerability, paying special interest to the macro variables related to housing, education and work, as well as perceptions about the neighbourhood and future prospects. Therefore, the aim is to generate co-constructed scientific knowledge in tandem with the community, which in turn recovers knowledge and demands from the territory with a concrete potential for transformation. This work is part of a Participatory Scientific Agenda based on the interaction of the community, political, economic and scientific-technical actors.","PeriodicalId":416587,"journal":{"name":"IJAR – International Journal of Action Research","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121502338","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":"Beyond the margins of neoliberalism: Biological and Neurological Foundations of Action Research","authors":"I. Gurrutxaga","doi":"10.3224/ijar.v17i2.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3224/ijar.v17i2.02","url":null,"abstract":"This text maintains that the presuppositions of individualistic empiricism have been instrumental for the neoliberal revolution, which turns supposed aggressiveness and natural selfishness into a foundation of society. The combination of science that denies the relational, emotional and subjective nature of humans with the naturalisation of individualism and competition as supposed bases of human behaviour combine to hinder Action Research’s aim of “self-determination” (Fricke, 2018). However, true relational parameters, located in and empathic with the living, fit perfectly with the assumptions of AR. Therefore, we explain how discoveries in biology not only show that the bases of Action Research are not heretical from a scientific point of view, but that they fit in perfectly with the true parameters of behaviour identified by the life sciences.","PeriodicalId":416587,"journal":{"name":"IJAR – International Journal of Action Research","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114590123","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}