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Emancipatory design choices for action research practitioners
Author(s) -
Roberts Gerry,
Dick Bob
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
journal of community and applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.042
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1099-1298
pISSN - 1052-9284
DOI - 10.1002/casp.753
Subject(s) - emancipation , empowerment , action (physics) , context (archaeology) , sociology , work (physics) , psychology , social psychology , action research , simplicity , public relations , pedagogy , epistemology , political science , engineering , law , mechanical engineering , paleontology , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics , politics , biology
The process choices made in action research can determine how emancipatory an experience it is for participants. Some choices promote an experience of emancipation. Other choices can reduce it. There can be tensions between choices that encourage emancipation and those that pursue other advantages at the expense of emancipation. Here we consider six such tensions. For each choice we suggest how to frame the tension to deliver an experience of emancipation. The suggestions involve practitioners and participants choosing the driving force for the work, acquiring and applying skills for empowerment, mixing action and research to suit the context, choosing an appropriate simplicity of methodology, planning participation, and engaging with the different beliefs of practitioners and participants. We use practitioner and researcher interchangeably. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.