Co-operative inquiry : research into the human condition / John Heron.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heron, John, 1928-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences--Research.

Social sciences.

Social sciences--Research--Methodology.

Participant observation.

Group work in research.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (236 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, 1996.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book offers both an extensive exploration of the theoretical background to co-operative inquiry and a detailed practical guide to the methods involved.

Contents:

Cover Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Preface

1. Introduction

A brief history of co-operative inquiry

The problem of a new orthodoxy

The overlap with other forms of participative research

The relation with qualitative research

The fifth paradigm

The poststructural antiparadigm paradigm

Truth, validity and beyond

Precursors of the participative paradigm

The question of data

2. Research Method and Participation

Participative research with people

Epistemic and political participation

Full form co-operative inquiry

Partial form co-operative inquiry

Supported action inquiry

Quantitative research on people

Problems for traditional quantitative research

Qualitative research about people

Problems for traditional qualitative research

Research for people

The academic status quo

Authoritarian collusion between teaching and research

Extension of human rights

Propositional bias

Holistic knowledge and systemic logic

Primacy of the practical

3. Overview of Co-operative Inquiry

Inquiry outcomes

The range of inquiry topics

Launching an inquiry group

Initiators' call

Call for initiators

Group bootstrap

Types of inquiry

Internally or externally initiated

Full or partial form

Same, reciprocal, counterpartal or mixed role

Inside or outside

Closed or open boundary

Apollonian or Dionysian

Informative or transformative

An outline of inquiry stages

Extended epistemology and the inquiry cycle

The pyramid and circuit models

Four kinds of belief

Four cognitive modes and stages of the inquiry cycle

Validity, special inquiry skills and validity procedures

Special inquiry skills

Validity procedures

4. Initiating an Inquiry Group

Three-stranded initiation

The inquiry strand

The collaboration strand.

The emotional and interpersonal strand

Initiators, academia and reports

5. Stages of the Inquiry Cycle

Stage 1 (1) Focus and type of inquiry

Stage 1 (2) A launching statement

Stage 1 (3) The first action plan

Divergent and convergent

Part and whole

Length of the action phase

Stage 1 (4) Data generation methods

Standard methods

Presentational methods

Radical memory

Stage 1 Inquiry culture

Stage 2 The first action phase

Issues of recording data

Stage 3 Experiential immersion

Falling asleep

Threshold oscillation

Celebration, inquiry and creativity

Stage 4 (1) The second reflection phase: making sense

Reporting, collating and reviewing

Making sense and reaching agreement

Presentational and propositional meaning

Informative meaning in propositional form

Transformative meaning: portrayals and propositions

Stage 4 (2) Planning the second action phase

Imagination, motivation and the logic of method

Stage 4 (3) Review of inquiry procedures

Subsequent stages

Dionysian and Apollonian cultures

Reflection meeting format

Validity: procedures and skills

Final reflection

Endings, outcomes and reports

6. Inquiry Outcomes

Holistic epistemology and the primacy of the practical

Four kinds of outcome

Inseparable and separable outcomes

Transformative, illuminative and informative outcomes

The range of propositional outcomes

Outcomes and meta-outcomes

Transcendent practice

The ineffability of knacks

A culture of competence

The action paradox

7. Radical Memory and Inquiry Skills

Informative memory and paying heed

The routinization of perception

Extraordinary perceptual heed

Transformative memory and paying heed

Extraordinary practical heed

Informative inquiry skills.

Radical perception: being present and imaginally open

Varieties of bracketing

Reframing

The relevance of Buddhist practices

Transformative inquiry skills

Radical practice: dynamic congruence

Emotional competence

Non-attachment

Self-transcending intentionality

Skill in articulating values

Values and principles

Inquiry skills and critical subjectivity

Extraordinary consciousness and multi-level mind

Training for inquiry

8. Validity Procedures

Research cycling

Individual research cycling

Collective research cycling

Combined research cycling

Fourfold interaction

The balance of divergence and convergence

Within and between phases

Total divergence

Total convergence

Intermediate model

Polarities of method

The reflection phase

The balance between reflection and action

Aspects of reflection

Description

Evaluation

Explanation

Application

Challenging uncritical subjectivity

Chaos and order

The management of unaware projections

Sustaining authentic collaboration

Open and closed boundaries

Variegated replication

Concerted action

9. Validity and Beyond

Validity in quantitative research

Validity in qualitative inquiry

Participative reality

Truth as the congruent articulation of reality

The primacy of the practical

Practice as consummation

Grounding and consummation

More on the congruence theory of truth

Beyond pragmatism

Autonomous forms of validity

The validation of practice

Executive criteria

Technical criteria

Psychosocial criteria

Intentionality criteria

Value criteria

The validation of propositions

Participative knowing

Agreements about findings

Reality-making social contracts

10. A Postconceptual Worldview

Primary and secondary meaning

Linguistic forms of secondary meaning.

Preconceptual, conceptual and postconceptual worlds

The classic problem of phenomenology

A sketch of a postconceptual world

Participation

Communion

Seamlessness

Imagination is reality

Centre and circumference

Figure and ground

The body as imaginal artefact

Presences and objects

Consciousness is spatial

Conclusion

11. Arguments for Co-operative Inquiry

The problems of positivism

Positivist research in trouble: the medical case

Arguments for co-operative inquiry

The human condition

Persons in relation

Research behaviour and self-determination

Research behaviour and intentionality

An extended epistemology

The use of language

The rights and duties of subjects and researchers

References

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-215) and index.

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ISBN:

1-85702-289-0

1-282-55913-3

9786612559136

0-85702-289-X

OCLC:

654439855