How to do action research for transformations : at a time of eco-social crisis / Hilary Bradbury, PhD., Curator, AR+ Action Research Plus Foundation, International.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bradbury, Hilary, author.

Contributor:

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Series:

How to Research Guides

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Action research.

Participant observation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, England ; Northampton, Massachusetts : Edward Elgar Publishing, [2022]

Summary:

"Capturing years of innovation within contemporary action research, Hilary Bradbury highlights where action research for transformations (ART) is directed: towards responding to climate change and achieving global sustainability goals. Paying particular attention to social justice, the book brings together the human and social sciences, exploring the impact action research can make. Chapters introduce a metamodel and quality choicepoints around which pioneering techniques are displayed. Illustrated with rich personal cases throughout, the book examines agents of change who are also subjects of change. With a strong relational focus, the book also utilizes these cases to show how a broad uptake of ART for policy, health and social care, education, and management looks in practice. This book will be a vital tool for social science researchers looking to better understand social science as a participatory practice, as well as the methods and importance of action research. Community organizers, policy makers and activists seeking to become more active in realizing a more sustainable world will also find this to be an invigorating read"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright

Contents

Biographical notes: Author and ARTist commentators

Foreword: ART revitalizes social science

Foreword: ARTists' practice field of friendship

Author's invitation: Welcome to getting personal with ART

Acknowledgments

PART I Groundings

1. Setting the table:

2. Starting action research transformations

3. Three spaces of ART: Relational, conceptual and experimental

4. Seven quality choicepoints of ART

5. Contemporary action research at a time of apocalypse

PART II Practice at the developmental edge

6. Developmental friendship

7. Stages of developmental feedback, power and collaborative action

8. Microworlds proliferating: Communities of Developmental Friendship

PART III Making caring visible

9. Repurposing social science as ART

10. Distill, deliver and proliferate your ART

11. Relational Math and Circus: Deeper practice of developmental reflexivity

12. Game-changing coLABoratorship

13. Capacity-building for the ARTist's repertoire

Afterword: ART in the developmental space between community and university

Appendix 1: What do we mean by "sustainability"? What does it look like in practice?

Appendix 2: ART conceptual and practice resources - Annotated short list

Selected references

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Bradbury, Hilary How to Do Action Research for Transformations

ISBN:

9781800373051