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The third edition of the SAGE Handbook of Action Research presents a fully updated version of the bestselling text, including new chapters written by key figures in the field covering emerging areas in healthcare, social work, education and international development, as well as an expanded ‘skills’ section which includes new consultant-relevant materials. Building on the strength of the previous editions, editor Hilary Bradbury has carefully developed the third edition to take a strong international approach to the topic of action research and thus expanding the already-impressive scale and scope of the work. In essence, the third edition follows in the footsteps of the landmark previous editions by mapping the current state of the discipline, as well as looking to the future of the field and exploring the issues at the cutting edge of the action research paradigm today. This volume is an essential resource for scholars and professionals engaged in social and political inquiry, organizational research and education.
Sex and Sensibilities: Doing Action Research while Respecting even Inspiring Dignity
Sex and Sensibilities: Doing Action Research while Respecting even Inspiring Dignity
In marginalized communities, conventional research is often experienced as pointless and dehumanizing, because it is on (rather than with) research ‘subjects'. The subject is really the object of inquiry (Stringer, 2007; Greenwood, 2008). Conventional research, based on researcher curiosity and gaps in the academic literature, may or may not be related to community-rooted desires for knowledge. Doris Johnson (2007), a self-described ‘survivor’ of prostitution put it like this when speaking to me of another researcher:
That damn girl was greedy. Her survey asked too much, too much of me. She asked all kind of weird questions. “Did I like it?” Did I LIKE sucking strangers’ dicks? Why she need ...
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