Doing Action Research in One's Own Organization: An Ongoing Conversation Over Time

摘要

There are many variants of action research. This article describes a socioecological action research approach done from inside an organization-in-environrnents. Building on past discussions of action research, an inside-outsider action research model is presented, and using the author's own experience, the paper explores some special relations inherent in such a model. The paper starts with a brief outline of the theory, then discusses some of the structural relations of inside-outsider action research, some practical issues and then reports several vignettes as examples. The paper concludes that action research is still an evolving paradigm.