First person action research [electronic resource] : living life as inquiry / Judi Marshall.

"In First Person Action Research Judi Marshall invites her reader to join her in the rich world of first person inquiry: a reflexive approach to life and to one's own participation in research and learning. Written as a collage of interrelated chapters, fragments and voices, this is an important med...

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Main Author: Marshall, Judi (Author)
Language:English
Published: Los Angeles : SAGE, 2016.
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Variant Title:
First Person Action Research: Living Life as Inquiry
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Introducing first person inquiry
  • 'Going Going' by Philip Larkin
  • Part I
  • Living Life as Inquiry: Integrating action research, systemic thinking and attention to issues of power
  • Action inquiry and action logics
  • Part II
  • Dimensions of Inquiry: Notions of inquiry
  • Disciplines of inquiry
  • Inquiry in action Images of aspiring inquiry practice
  • Part III
  • Working with Ideas, Theories and Images as Inquiry: Working with academic literatures
  • Drawing on the work of Nathalie Sarraute
  • Self-reflection and life narrative in the work of Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Part IV
  • Writing as Inquiry and as Representation: Writing as inquiry
  • Writing as representation
  • Selectively adopting Freefall Writing precepts
  • Part V
  • Stories of Inquiry: Inquiry learning groups and working with feedback
  • Acting for sustainability
  • Seeking to contribute to systemic change, as time slips by
  • 'Work Song' by Wendell Berry
  • Wondering what to do about an elderly relative
  • Part VI
  • Ongoing Inquiry: Well, I won't be doing that again
  • In reflection.