Emancipatory Design Choices for Action Research Practitioners

Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 486-495

  Roberts, Gerry ^a   Dick, Bob ^b  

^a Department of Primary Industries ^*  (Australia)

^b SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Action research; Emancipation; Empowerment; Participation; Practitioner choices; Privileging participants; Resolving tensions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0344927028     PISSN: 10529284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/casp.753     Document Type: Article

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