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Nov 23, 2024
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HOD-764AR Advanced Research Module: Action Research2, 4, 6, or 8 semester credits
Advanced studies and applied research projects, designed to develop skills in specific research methodologies and approaches. All the advanced research modules numbered 764XX are designed to enable students to learn a particular research method in depth. Action research is a methodology rooted in engagement, and has been characterized as offering a possibility and a strategy for “revitalizing the social sciences, the University, and the American City.” (Puckett and Harkavy, The Action Research Tradition in the United States, 1999). Action research has been defined as a “participatory, democratic process concerned with developing practical knowing in the pursuit of worthwhile human purposes, grounded in a participatory worldview (Reason and Bradbury, Handbook of Action Research, 2006). We can understand action research as seeking to bring together couplets of action and reflection, theory and practice, in participation with others, in the pursuit of practical solutions to issues of pressing concern to people, and more generally, the flourishing of individual persons and their communities. The idea of doing research WITH others rather than on them, which is key to action research, also foregrounds the researcher as an engaged scholar-practitioner, and encourages a focus on issues of researcher relationships and contextual knowledge. Questions of ways of knowing generated by action research will be a focus, as will exploring how other cultures of inquiry fit with action research. While paying attention to relational dilemmas of the collaborative research process, we will also look at the importance of participation and democratization as at the heart of an action research endeavor.
Pre-requisites: HOD-722A , HOD-722B
Delivery Method: Online
Grading Default: Letter
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