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Action Research As Spiritual Practice

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Action Research as Spiritual Practice

Peter Reason

Prepared for the University of Surrey Learning Community Conference

May 4/5 2000

For me spiritual life is not an interest, it's a way of life, of being in the world, the foundation of everything. bell hooks, (hooks, 1991:218)



One of the interesting debates within the family of methods which we call action research—co-operative inquiry, participatory action research, action science, action inquiry, appreciative inquiry—has concerned what we mean by validity. Positivist science is (relatively) clear that validity is about epistemology, about truth in some sense, a correspondence between theory and empirical evidence. However, in action research, as we have explored these questions, we have realized that validity, or a better term may be quality, is a rather different, and more multidimensional, notion.

There is clearly an epistemological dimension to quality in action......


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