Advancing Scientific Knowledge Through Participatory Action Research

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Title: Advancing Scientific Knowledge Through Participatory Action Research
Abstract/Description: This paper aims to demonstrate the value of participatory action research (PAR) for advancing scientific knowledge as well as for solving practical problems. The article supports the argument through brief summaries of three PAR cases in industry: Norwegian shipping, Xerox Corporation, and the FAGOR group of the Mondragón cooperatives. While noting the practical gains achieved through PAR, the author concentrates particularly on the advances in substantive knowledge and theory that would have been unlikely to emerge out of more orthodox sociological research. The author suggests finally that wider use of participatory action research can have a stimulating effect upon the future development of sociology.
Author/creator: Whyte, William Foote
Date: 9/1/1989
In publication: Sociological Forum
Volume: 4
Issue: 3
Pages: 367-385
Resource type: en Research/Scholarly Media
Resource status/form: en Published Text
Scholarship genre: en Theoretical; en Methodological; en Empirical
Keywords: participatory action research; advancing science; creative surprises; standard research methodologies
IRE Approach/Concept: Participatory Action Research (PAR)
Language: en
Open access/full-text available: en No
Peer reviewed: en Yes
ISSN: 1573-7861
DOI: 10.1007/BF01115015
URL: Official Publisher's Webpage (Springer Link)
Citation: Whyte, W. F. (1989). Advancing Scientific Knowledge Through Participatory Action Research. Sociological Forum, 4(3), 367–385. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01115015
Cited in: Introducing Improvement Research in Education
Abbreviation: Sociol Forum

Item sets: IRE Handbook Introduction Citation

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