Action Research in a Relational Perspective (eBook, PDF)

Dialogue, Reflexivity, Power and Ethics
Redaktion: Hersted, Lone; Frimann, Søren; Ness, Ottar

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book by an expert international academic team, presents theoretical views on social constructionist understandings of action research, as well as illustrative examples of action research practices within a wide range of sectors such as organizational learning, leadership development, education, mental health and health care.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000228908
• Artikelnr.: 57081735

Autorenporträt

Lone Hersted, PhD, is Assistant Professor at the Department of Learning and Philosophy at Aalborg University, Denmark. Her teaching and research are concerned with leadership development, organizational learning, action research, action learning, coaching, innovative and creative change processes and dialogue training through roleplaying. At Aalborg University, Lone is a coordinator, lecturer and supervisor on the MA program entitled Master's in Organizational Coaching and Learning (MOC). She is trained and certified as a systemic coach at Attractor, DK, and has obtained a Certificate Degree in Systemic Leadership and Organizational Development at the University of Bedfordshire in collaboration with KCC, UK, and MacMann Berg, DK. In addition to her academic work, Lone has worked as a consultant since 2003 where she has been contributing to organizational learning processes through coaching, supervision, workshops and lectures. Furthermore, she has more than ten years' professional work experience in performance theater. Ottar Ness, PhD, family therapist, is Professor of Counseling at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and Professor of Mental Health Care at University College of South-Eastern Norway and Nord University, Norway. He has considerable experience of doing action research projects from a social constructionist action-oriented stance within the fields of family therapy, recovery, mental health and substance abuse. His research is in the area of relational welfare in order to co-construct and co-create dignifying lives and communities. He also works with research recovery processes and recovery-oriented practices and services with people with mental health and substance abuse problems. Among his latest books is a handbook of couples therapy, handbook of family therapy and action research. Søren Frimann, PhD, is Associate Professor at the Department of Learning and Philosophy, Aalborg University, Denmark. He is the leader of a research group on organizational learning and leadership development with the name POLO (Processes of Learning in Organizations). He runs the Danish Action Research Network together with colleagues in Denmark. The network organizes action research conferences, national seminars and publishes books/articles in the area of action research. He is involved in several action research projects in organizations. Currently, he is engaged in a research and development project with the aim of developing leadership in practice in 38 Danish vocational schools. His research areas are within action research, learning in organizations, leadership development, coaching, dialogue and communication.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Action research and social constructionism. 1. Action Research:
Tradition and Renewal. 2. Action Research as Ethical Practice: Coordinating
Voices, Expanding Possibilities. 3. Action Research in the Perspective of
Becoming: The Significance of Reflexive Dialogue. Part II: Action research:
Reflexive dialogues for change. 4. Social Poetics in Action Research. 5.
Leadership Development and Organizational Learning through Dialogical
Process. 6. Learning New Ideas and Practices Together through Relational
Action Research. 7. Developing Leadership through Action Research with
Roleplaying. Part III: Emotions and tensions in action research. 8.
Emotions as Inspiration for Reflexivity in Action Research. 9. Inclusion
and exclusion in action research on person-centered health care: A
framework for cultivating the tensions in dialogue. 10. Tensional Dialogues
in Social Constructionist Collaborative Knowledge Production.