Action researchers speak about their reasons for choosing action research

 

Several well-known action researchers speak about why they choose to do action research. Click on the author's names below to download a PDF file ...    (Adobe provide a free PDF reader that you can download from http://get.adobe.com/reader/

Jean M. Bartunek	Hilary Bradbury
L David Brown	Mary Brydon-Miller
Dawn Chandler and Bill Torbert	David Coghlan
Bob Dick	Olav Eikeland
Werner Fricke	Victor J Friedman
Davydd Greenwood	Ian Hughes
Elizabeth Kasl and Lyle Yorks	James G Kelly et al
Patricia Maguire	Robin McTaggart
Peter Reason (1)	Peter Reason (2)
Peter Reason (3)	Peter Reason (4)
Shankar Sankaran	John Shotter
Ernie Stringer	Marja Liisa Swantz

 

Mary Brydon-Miller, Davydd Greenwood and Patricia Maguire invited members of the editorial board of Action research to respond to the question "Why action research?".  Their article in the journal identified common themes in the responses.  The papers above are the replies which members of the editorial board sent to the authors. The article is: Brydon-Miller, M., Greenwood, D., and Maguire, P (2003) Why action research? Action Research, 1(1), 9-28.

 

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