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Critical Design Ethnography as Action Research
Author(s) -
Reason Peter
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1525/aeq.2004.35.2.269
Subject(s) - ethnography , sociology , empowerment , action (physics) , action research , democracy , critical theory , critical ethnography , epistemology , engineering ethics , political science , pedagogy , politics , anthropology , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics , law , engineering
“Critical Design Ethnography: Designing for Change” is reviewed in terms of action research under five dimensions: knowledge in practice, participation and democracy, many ways of knowing, emergence, and worthwhile purposes. Particular attention is paid to the tensions between the design agenda and the empowerment agenda.