Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1177/14767503231199846
Diana Cedeño
This Feminist Action Research (FAR) examines the impact of economic and societal exclusion on low-income Latina mothers. The study, conducted in an urban community in the Northeast U.S., aimed to foster social inclusion among low-income Latina mothers via a financial intervention. Data were collected from 12 participants, and the intervention emphasized curriculum negotiation and critical thinking. Descriptions and roles of positionality are considered and contextualized. Findings exemplified economic and societal exclusion in the form of economic deprivation and experiences of discrimination, along with experiences of personal agency, solidarity, and social inclusion. Conclusions include a discussion on the potential of FAR within poverty research, along with practical implications in developing community change.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-25DOI: 10.1177/14767503231199535
David Coghlan
Edgar H. Schein’s name may not be known to action researchers outside of the realm of organizational psychology and organization development. For over fifty years he held the position of Professor of Management at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management. He was one of the first to formulate the field of organizational psychology in 1965 and led the development organization development (OD) through his editorship of the pioneering Addison-Wesley OD series in 1969. For almost seventy years he has creatively and systematically shaped theory and practice in areas such as: organization development and change, career dynamics, the cultural dynamics of complex systems and leadership. Other contributions that are found in articles, book chapters, interviews, You Tubes include his reflections on learning and education and notions of organizational therapy, organizational socialization, dialogue and the role of anxiety in organizational change. With such an extensive corpus over such a long period, Schein been termed a “transcendent thought leader” and it is in this spirit that I select one strand of his work for Action Research readers so as to acknowledge his place in our field and to sustain his legacy. Since 1969 Schein has framed and developed a philosophy of being helpful that has become mainstream in both the academic and practitioner literatures. He has termed this philosophy process consultation, clinical inquiry/research and humble inquiry respectively and it is in these terms that I structure this appreciative reflection.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-21DOI: 10.1177/14767503231195418
Gaby Jacobs, Stefanie de Cuba
Spiritual care is increasingly seen as a task of all health care professionals. This is challenging for chaplains working in health care, who hold spiritual care at the heart of their profession but don’t feel rooted in a strong professional identity. In this article we discuss a participatory action research that aimed at strengthening the professional identity of health care chaplains by forming collaborative learning communities of chaplains and general practice mental health. The focus is on the ‘boundary work’ and how participatory action research contributes to this. Relational professionalism, Dialogical Self Theory and Boundary Theory are combined to interpret the complex relational-dialogical processes of negotiating one’s identity within the relationships with diverse others: clients, mental health nurses and society. The result is a more articulated and at the same time flexible professional identity for healthcare chaplains. Participatory action research contributes to these boundary processes by stimulating reflection, explicating, eliciting or encouraging different voices and facilitating the dialogue between these professionals.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-14DOI: 10.1177/14767503231195928
H. Bradbury
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Pub Date : 2023-08-07DOI: 10.1177/14767503231191863
Sheila Butler, M. Coakley, E. Doyle
This paper focuses on the process and theory of action-research for transformation (ART) targeting individual transformation as a required means for global change. Addressing the lack of a practical framework to organize and report transformation, we conceptualise, identify and demonstrate an approach by linking ART with Interiority and Constructive Development Theory. Interiority focuses on the individual’s sense-making as it relates to the sensed world and provides direction for data to be collected. Crucially, the individual’s capacity for sense-making impacts how data are identified, experienced, interpreted and evaluated. It is shifts in this capacity that constitute fundamental transformation required to better handle complexity and ambiguity - intrinsic to ART. We propose Constructive Developmental Interiority (CDI) that provides a lens to recognise, analyse and frame constructive developmental shifts. Two case studies are presented in which researchers engaged in applying CDI for transformation. Both cases highlight, through first-person action-research and reflexive collaboration, that although the will to address developmental transformational challenges was an espoused motivation, its misalignment with the capacities for transformative change is always a possibility. Applying CDI reveals the nature of the challenge (time, effort and support), how transitions were made, and the potential for transformational impact.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-27DOI: 10.1177/14767503231191854
Halima Iqbal, J. West, R. McEachan, M. Haith-Cooper
Participation of community stakeholders in health research priority setting is an emerging trend. Despite this, the involvement of marginalised groups in research prioritisation is limited and where they are involved, sample sizes are small, where individuals are merely consulted with, rather than coproducing the research agenda. Without addressing power dynamics inherent in research prioritisation with marginalised groups, their engagement in the research process can be tokenistic and the resulting research agenda unreflective of their needs. This article, therefore, aims to generate knowledge on how feminist participatory action research was used to co-produce an obesity research agenda with British Pakistani women, a seldom heard population, living in deprived areas. The methodology enabled Pakistani women to be involved in all stages of the project, culminating in the co-production of an obesity research agenda that accurately reflects their unmet needs. Women’s engagement in the project led to their increased confidence, the formation of relationships that lasted beyond the research project, improvements to their lifestyles, and engagement in further research. Feminist participatory action research may be used by researchers as a guiding methodology due to its ability to improve women’s lives and develop research agendas for women’s health.
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Based on co-creation theory, the value of any human resource (HR) practice is defined by any stakeholder who uses it; hence, to maximize its value, HR practices should be co-created by HR and users. However, when it comes to organizational welfare, in most of the cases, decision-makers rely on standardized processes and workers are involved mainly in terms of needs-analysis through standardized tools resulting in less incisive choices and policies. The current work takes on the challenge to apply action-research (AR) in the field of organizational welfare and show how AR can be used as a valuable methodological approach to sustain the co-creation of more relevant organizational welfare choices. We worked in collaboration with an Italian social cooperative with the purpose to adjust its representations and practices around organizational welfare through organizational actors’ participation. Results showed that AR allowed a complex welfare picture to be built, supporting awareness around several priorities from the bottom that would have otherwise remained invisible: the need to define an operational direction and the identification of a dedicated role to coordinate the process; development of a context-based welfare-need questionnaire. Our findings support the contribution of AR to the co-creation process of more effective HR practices.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-06DOI: 10.1177/14767503231179562
P. Reason
Co-operative inquiry was conceived as an authentic science of humans as self-determining persons. But what if we extend our definition of persons to include beings in the more-than-human world – and indeed the cosmos itself – as sentient and responsive? This paper gives some account of a series of co-operative inquiries with human and river persons worldwide, drawing on living cosmos panpsychism to address questions of the kind, What would it be like to live in a world of sentient beings rather than inert objects? The paper includes some narratives of encounters with animals who appear at our river encounters, and reflects on the veracity claims we are making.
{"title":"Extending co-operative inquiry beyond the human: Ontopoetic inquiry with rivers","authors":"P. Reason","doi":"10.1177/14767503231179562","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14767503231179562","url":null,"abstract":"Co-operative inquiry was conceived as an authentic science of humans as self-determining persons. But what if we extend our definition of persons to include beings in the more-than-human world – and indeed the cosmos itself – as sentient and responsive? This paper gives some account of a series of co-operative inquiries with human and river persons worldwide, drawing on living cosmos panpsychism to address questions of the kind, What would it be like to live in a world of sentient beings rather than inert objects? The paper includes some narratives of encounters with animals who appear at our river encounters, and reflects on the veracity claims we are making.","PeriodicalId":46969,"journal":{"name":"Action Research","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41449425","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-05-04DOI: 10.1177/14767503231174679
H. Bradbury
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