I just finished the first half of the introduction of Handbook of Action Research by Reason and Bradbury. It was a wonderful foundation for understanding the beginning ideas of where action research fits in scientific thought and what were the historic concepts that paved the way for this type of research. I especially like the statement that "The aim of participatory action research is to change practices, social structures, and social media which maintain irrationality, injustice, and unsatisfying forms of existence" (quoting Robin McTaggart) (Reason and Bradbury, p. 1).
I also appreciated their presentation of the difference between modern thinking and postmodern thinking...how that post-modern thinking wants to "look beyond our taken-for-granted assumptions, strategies, and habit" and find new answers for the problems that still face us (p. 6).
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