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Methodologies in action research
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The pluralistic landscape of action research will, in this article, be treated from a methodological perspective. We present action research traditions from an academic point of view. As an academic approach, we understand action research as being related to theory and to methodology. We present controversies about ontological and epistemological aspects of the action research approach; and we only touch on specific forms of practices and techniques used by action researchers. Our approach to the different methodologies will be a discussion of how action research has been established as a “democratic social science” or as a knowledge creation based on democratic values. Starting with an interpretation of methodological values in Kurt Lewin’s concept of action research we follow two trends in Scandinavian action research: the pragmatic one represented by the so called dialog tradition and the critical theoretical trend represented by the so called critical utopian action research. It is argued that the two trends have different concepts of society and hence different criteria for knowledge and knowledge creation being democratic.
Kurt Aagaard Nielsen & Birger Steen Nielsen - Personal Name
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English
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