International Journal of Action Research

2007 - 2016

Current editor(s): Werner Fricke, Richard Ennals, Oyvind Palshaugen, Sabine Pfeiffer and Danilo Streck, editor-in chief

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Volume 12, issue 3, 2016

Challenges of participation in cross-cultural Action Research pp. 224-247

Sirkku Maennikkoe Barbutiu

Recognising participants’ professional identities through analysis of narratives in educational Action Research pp. 248-271

Eleni Katsarou and Vassilis Tsafos

How can teachers motivate students to study theoretical modules in public relations? pp. 272-293

Layla AlSaqer

‘There and back again’: International Collaboration for Participatory Health Researchers’ journeys to evidence based practice and practice based evidence pp. 294-314

Wendy Madsen

Volume 12, issue 2, 2016

Commitment and regulation. Ethics in research and the human sciences pp. 116-143

Emil A. Sobottka

Participatory hierarchies: A challenge in organisational Action Research pp. 144-171

Marianne Kristiansen and Jorgen Bloch-Poulsen

'Today we are treated like human beings!' Methodological strategies of Action Research with family farmers’ practitioners of the slash-and-burn system in Southern Brazil pp. 172-190

Cintia Uller Gómez and Reney Dorow

Participatory Action Research in Argentina: New expressions at the field of social movement’s militant action. An account of experience pp. 191-215

Marina Ampudia

Volume 12, issue 1, 2016

Action Research as a leadership strategy for innovation: The case of a global high-technology organisation pp. 8-37

Grant Allen and Ken Dovey

University students’ support to an NGO that helps children with cancer: Lessons learned in thirteen academic projects pp. 38-58

João Alberto Arantes do Amaral and Erica Okazaki

Paulo Freire and the methodology of thematic investigation for permanent teacher education pp. 59-83

Ana Maria Saul and Alexandre Saul

Retrieving a philosophy of practical knowing for Action Research pp. 84-107

David Coghlan

Volume 11, issue 3, 2015

Supporting community governance in boreal forests by introducing participatory-GIS through Action Research pp. 236-264

Mahesh Poudyal, Gun Lidestav, Per Sandstroem and Stefan Sandstroem

Developing a mental health programme for refugees based on participatory Action Research: An experience from Sao Paulo, Brazil pp. 265-288

Carmen L. A. de Santana and Francisco Lotufo Neto

Development-oriented learning in a project team. Applying an interactive research approach pp. 289-316

Gunilla Albinsson

Dialogic feedforward in group coaching pp. 317-338

Helle Alro and Poul Norgard Dahl

Action Research and intercultural dialogue: An experience with Brazilian Indians pp. 339-363

Ruth Pavan, Maria Cristina Lima Paniago and José Licínio Backes

Homage to Fals Borda: A report from III International Symposium of Action and Participatory research (Bogotá, June 22-25, 2015) pp. 364-374

Cheron Zanini Moretti and Danilo R. Streck

Volume 11, issue 1-2, 2015

'The most important safety device is you!' On the specific nature of high-tech work process knowledge pp. 14-39

Ines Langemeyer

Precariousness meets passion – Fields of conflict in editorial and social work pp. 40-78

Kristin Carls

Research for whom? Labour sociology between observation, co-management and social critique pp. 79-92

Nicole Mayer-Ahuja

Participatory research on innovation – Methodological approaches to challenges in the field and practical experiences pp. 93-117

Daniela Wuehr, Sabine Pfeiffer and Petra Schuett

Workplace ethnographies – an underestimated source of subject-oriented work research pp. 119-145

Andrea Gabler

Reflexive and experience-based trust and participatory research: Concept and methods to meet complexity and uncertainty in organisations pp. 146-173

Norbert Huchler and Stefan Sauer

Participation in enterprises and in research: The case of innovation work pp. 174-194

Stephanie Porschen-Hueck and Judith Neumer

Gentrification, social action and 'role-playing': Experiences garnered on the outskirts of Hamburg pp. 195-227

Peter Birke, Florian Hohenstatt and Moritz Rinn

Volume 10, issue 3, 2014

Learning from learning networks. Experiences of the Finnish Workplace Development Programme pp. 310-338

Tuomo Alasoini

Power and contexts: Some societal conditions for organisational action research – Clashes between economic-management and pedagogic-social discourses pp. 339-375

Marianne Kristiansen and Jorgen Bloch-Poulsen

Learning from community-university research partnerships: A Canadian study on community impact and conditions for success pp. 376-404

Crystal Tremblay and Budd L. Hall

Volume 10, issue 2, 2014

The contribution of Action Research to policy learning: The case of Gipuzkoa Sarean pp. 129-155

James Karlsen and Miren Larrea

When local participatory budgeting turns into a participatory system. Challenges of expanding a local democratic experience pp. 156-183

Emil A. Sobottka and Danilo R. Streck

Role transformations in collaborative R&D-projects as reciprocation between research, practice and policy pp. 184-212

Mikaela Vasstrøm and Roger Normann

Dialogues in innovation: Interactive learning and interactive research as means for a context sensitive regional innovation policy pp. 213-234

Øyvind Pålshaugen

Action Research strategies at the 'third place' pp. 235-257

Hans Chr. Garmann Johnsen, Jon P. Knudsen and Roger Normann

Learning from differences pp. 257-275

Richard Ennals

Volume 10, issue 1, 2014

Translating knowing that into knowing how: The case of trust in regional network building pp. 8-33

Anne Haugen Gausdal, Jarle Moss Hildrum and Bjørn Gustavsen

Facilitating innovation in networks composed of non-mandated relations pp. 34-53

Svein-Tore Kristiansen

On the necessity of intertwining ‘knowledge in practice’ in action research pp. 54-97

Nina Bonderup Dohn

Action research for democracy – a Scandinavian approach pp. 98-115

Øyvind Pålshaugen

Volume 9, issue 3, 2013

Stable Flexibility – Long-term Strategic Use of Temporary Agency Workers in Sweden pp. 278-300

Kristina Hakansson, Tommy Isidorsson and Hannes Kantelius

Self-Reflections, Teaching, and Learning in a Graduate Cultural Pluralism Course pp. 301-332

Courtney Ann Vaughn and Daniel G. Krutka

What Will I Do? Toward an Existential Ethics for First Person Action Research Practice pp. 333-352

David Coghlan

Volume 9, issue 2, 2013

A Realistic View of the Participatory Utopia. Reflections on Participation pp. 168-191

Werner Fricke

Participation in Social Research: 'Quijotism' or Construction of a World View? pp. 192-208

Danilo R. Streck

Workplace Social Dialogue as a Form of ‘Productive Reflection’ pp. 209-245

Peter Cressey, Peter Totterdill and Rosemary Exton

The Development of Managerial Competencies: A Collaborative Inquiry into the Practice of Sustainability pp. 246-269

Marcos Carneiro de Novaes Bidart and Janette Brunstein

Volume 9, issue 1, 2013

Participation, Power and Democracy: Exploring the Tensional Field between Empowerment and Constraint in Action Research pp. 15-37

Are Thorkildsen

Attempts of a Participatory Approach to Helping Improve the Value and Appreciation of Geriatric Nursing in Germany – Looking at the “PflegeWert” Project from an Action Re-search Perspective pp. 38-66

Claudia Nick and Paul Fuchs-Frohnhofen

Walking the talk? A Micro-Sociological Approach to the Co-production of Knowledge and Power in Action Research pp. 67-94

Birgitte Ravn Olesen and Helle Merete Nordentoft

Dynamics between Organisational Change Processes and Facilitating Dissensus in Context Inquiring Dialogues pp. 95-123

Marianne Kristiansen

Participation and Recognition in Social Research pp. 124-146

Emil A. Sobottka