Co-operative inquiry research into the human condition
This book offers both an extensive exploration of the theoretical background to co-operative inquiry and a detailed practical guide to the methods involved.
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; Thousand Oaks :
Sage Publications
1996.
London ; Thousand Oaks : 1996. |
| Edición: | 1st ed |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798026906719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
