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	Action Research Encyclopedia Articles @ CompleteIdiotsGuide.com (Complete Idiots Guide) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In that paper, he described action research as “a comparative research on the conditions and effects of various forms of social action and research leading to social action” that uses “a spiral of steps, each of which is composed of a circle of planning, action, and fact-finding about the result of the action”.
		Action research is not only a research that describes how humans and organizations behave in the outside world but also a change mechanism that helps human and organizations reflect on and change their own systems (Reason and Bradbury, 2001).
		Action research can change the entire sense of social science, transforming it from reflective knowledge about past social practices formulated by a priesthood of experts (research PhDs) to an active moment-to-moment theorizing, data collecting, and inquiring occurring in the midst of our ongoing lives.
	completeidiotsguide.com /encyclopedia/Action_research (1014 words)

	kurt lewin: groups, experiential learning and action research
		It is a type of action-research, a comparative research on the conditions and effects of various forms of social action, and research leading to social action.
		Action research did suffer a decline in favour during the 1960s because of its association with radical political activism (Stringer 1999: 9).
		He continues, ‘Action research is not a ‘method’ or a ‘procedure’ for research but a series of commitments to observe and problematize through practice a series of principles for conducting social enquiry’.
	www.infed.org /thinkers/et-lewin.htm (4772 words)

	Recent trends in user studies: action research and qualitative methods
		For example, Clark (1972) notes that action research is 'a strategy for distributing knowledge' and that the 'rules of the game' 'differ sharply from those adopted in presenting papers to colleagues in the scientific community.
		Action research is defined by French and Bell (1973) as an integral part of the OD consulting process.
		A shift of focus in information science research towards qualitative methods and action research would support the proposition that information science is a social science by insisting upon the more intelligent use of social research methods for the development of models from the point-of-view of the philosophy of social (rather than physical) science.
	www.informationr.net /ir/5-3/paper76.html (7431 words)

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