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Methodologies in action research Action Research and Critical Theory

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The pluralistic landscape of action research will, in this article, be treated from a methodological
perspective. We present action research traditions from an academic point of view. As an academic
approach, we understand action research as being related to theory and to methodology.
We present controversies about ontological and epistemological aspects of the action research
approach; and we only touch on specific forms of practices and techniques used by action
researchers. Our approach to the different methodologies will be a discussion of how action
research has been established as a “democratic social science” or as a knowledge creation based on
democratic values. Starting with an interpretation of methodological values in Kurt Lewin’s concept
of action research we follow two trends in Scandinavian action research: the pragmatic one
represented by the so called dialog tradition and the critical theoretical trend represented by the so
called critical utopian action research. It is argued that the two trends have different concepts of
society and hence different criteria for knowledge and knowledge creation being democratic.

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Methodologies in action research Action Research and Critical Theory

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: ., 2006

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English

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Research Methods

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