First Person Action Research: Living Life as Inquiry
Autor Judi Marshallen Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 mai 2016
Written as a collage of interrelated chapters, fragments and voices, this is an important meditation on the nature of inquiring action. Judi Marshall’s book provides an accessible introduction to self-reflective practice; exploring its principles and practices and illustrating with reflective accounts of inquiry from the author’s professional and personal life. The book also considers action for change in relation to issues of ecological sustainability and corporate responsibility.
Writing is reviewed as a process of inquiry, and as a way to present action research experiences. Connections are made with the work of the literary authors Nathalie Sarraute and Kazuo Ishiguro to expand the scope of typical academic writing practices.
First Person Action Research is an important and practical resource for students, teachers and practitioners of action research alike. It is a thoughtful and sensitive account of an emerging field in Research Methods.
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ISBN-10: 1412912156
Pagini: 248
Dimensiuni: 170 x 242 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: SAGE Publications
Colecția Sage Publications Ltd
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Recenzii
This is a jewel of a book. Judi Marshall, not only provides insights into the theory and practice of first person action research she also engages in it herself. She shows how living life as inquiry is a responsibility that challenges us to think critically and act meaningfully in our world. This book is a must, not merely to read, but to internalise.
First person action research, as Judi articulates it, helps inform better action, better research and more mindful leadership. The field of action research has been waiting for Judi’s decades long crystallization of first person inquiry practices and First Person Action Research now offers a most welcome and timely read. Action researchers, who are encouraged to hold high aspirations for positive impact with stakeholders, will find a guide to staying in touch with their aspiration, and support for making it real. Judi’s work helps to situate inquiry that integrates what she calls “outer and inner arcs of attention,” into our everyday "living life as inquiry." First person inquiry is not for its own sake. As social scientists we may also understand that because ostensibly objective studies are increasingly questioned for their partiality, well-wrought first person action research can help clarify and refine our scientific insights. Judi offers examples of useful and occasionally artistic first person inquiry practices, helpfully brought alive with her own stories of living everyday inquiry. We are edified by inquiry practices that enrich all, both practitioners and those touched by the practice, alike. Thank you Judi!
Cuprins
'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
Notă biografică
Judi Marshall is a Professor Emerita of Leadership and Learning at Lancaster University Management School, UK, in the Department of Organisation, Work and Technology.
After a few years as a market researcher, Judi did her PhD on managerial job stress at UMIST, working with Cary Cooper. This led to a series of joint articles and books. In 1978 Judi joined the Organizational Behaviour Group in the School of Management at the University of Bath. There her interests included women in management, organizational culture change, careers, action research and sustainability. The latter a set of issues and urgent challenges she has been integrating into management education, research and her own organizational action since the 1980s.
Whilst at Bath, publications included: Women Managers: Travellers in a Male World (Wiley, 1984); Women Managers Moving On (Routledge, 1995); explorations of the gendering of corporate social responsibility; attention to `responsible¿ careers (with Svenja Tams); and a sequence of publications on first person action research, including ¿Living life as inquiry¿ (Systemic Practice and Action Research, 1999) ¿ an approach that aspires to treat life as an ongoing experiment.
Working with doctoral and Masters students, and supervising their dissertations, has been a key area of Judi¿s expertise. At Bath, she was a core member of the Centre for Action Research in Professional Practice (CARPP) and a tutor on the learning community based Postgraduate Programme in Action Research. She was a co-designer (with Gill Coleman and Peter Reason) and Director of Studies for the action research-based MSc in Responsibility and Business Practice (1997-2010) for `mature¿, part-time course participants who were seeking to contribute to change in their organizations, professional fields, own lives and society. The co-authored book Leadership for Sustainability: An action research approach (Routledge, 2011) includes 29 stories of seeking to contribute to systemic change from people who had undertaken the Masters.
Judi moved on from Bath and joined Lancaster University in 2008, in the then Department of Management Learning and Leadership. Her work included teaching, research, writing and organizational action about sustainability, and she especially appreciated belonging to a network of people across the University and local community concerned about these issues. She co-developed the MA in Leadership for Sustainability, and tutored on the inquiry-based MA in Management Learning and Leadership.
Judi¿s contributions to action research have continued since formal retirement, including the book First Person Action Research: Living life as inquiry (Sage, 2016), and an article co-authored with Margaret Gearty ¿ ¿Living life as inquiry ¿ a systemic practice for change agents¿ (Systemic Practice and Action Research, online 2020).