Mi muro estiloso by Daniel Jacobo https://padlet.com/dinahjacobo/4r3jixpx79mi Hecho con una rápida sonrisa en-us 2018-03-03 22:19:33 UTC 2018-03-03 22:27:40 UTC hello@padlet.com Daniel Israel Jacobo Vazquez dinahjacobo https://padlet.com/dinahjacobo/4r3jixpx79mi/wish/237737918
It makes some sense to differentiate action research from other kinds of action inquiry, by defining it as using recognised research techniques to produce the description of the effects of the changes to practice in the action inquiry cycle. The main reason for using the term 'action inquiry' as a superordinate process that subsumes action research is that the term 'action research' is becoming so widely and loosely applied that it is becoming meaningless. A definition such as, "Action research is a term which is applied to projects in which practitioners seek to effect transformations in their own practices …" (Brown and Dowling, 2001, p.152), for instance, is accurate in some aspects, but it uses the term 'research' in the very open fashion of any kind of careful study, and using it in that way deprives academics of using it to distinguish the form of action inquiry that employs the more specific meaning attached to research in academia.
This is important because if any kind of reflection on action is called action research, we risk rejection by the very people on whom most of us rely for approving or funding university work. As it was with qualitative research two decades ago, I am now regularly contacted by higher degree students who are not being allowed to use action research for their dissertations. Their research supervisors, if they consider it to be research at all (rather than, for instance, professional development), do not consider what they see termed action research to be sufficiently methodologically rigorous to produce a higher degree research thesis.
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