The role conundrums of co-inquiry action research: Lessons from the field

Systemic Practice and Action Research

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 105-116

  Yorks, Lyle ^a   Nicolaides, Aliki ^a  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaborative inquiry; Complexity; Learning practices; Reflexivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847332012     PISSN: 1094429X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11213-006-9053-1     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Argyris C (1993) Knowledge for action. San Francisco, Jossey-Bass
2. Candy P, Harri-Augstein S, Thomas L (1985) Reflection and the self-organized learner: A model of learning conversations. In: Boud D, Keogh R, Walker D (eds) Reflection: turning experience into learning. London, Kogan, Page, pp 100-116
3. Fox S (1997) From management education and development to the study of management learning. In: Burgoyne J, Reynolds M (eds) Management learning: integrating perspectives in theory and practice. London and Thousand Oaks, CA, Sage, pp 21-37
4. Gibbons M, Limoges H, Nowotny H, Schwartzman S, Scott P, Trow M (1994) The new production of knowledge: The dynamics of science and research in contemporary societies. London, Sage
5. Greenwood DJ, Levin M (1998) Introduction to action research: social research for social change. Thousand Oaks, CA, Sage
6. Harmon J (1999) NSF.1 Draft of proposal to the National Science Foundation
7. Harmon J (2004) Report to NSF on VA Stress and Aggression Project (Final Draft). Center for Human Resource Management Studies, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, NJ
8. Harmon J, Kowalski D, Kowalski R, Keashly L, Neuman J, Scaringi J, Yorks L (2000) Reducing workplace stress and aggression to enhance individual and organizational performance. An action research project in the U.S. Veterans Administration, Panel Discussion, M. Beer moderator and discussant. Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada: August
9. Heron J (1996) Cooperative inquiry: research into the human condition. London and Thousand Oaks, CA, Sage
10. Heron J, Reason P (1997). A participatory inquiry paradigm. Qual Inq 3:274-294
11. Kowalski R, Yorks L, Jelinek M (forthcoming) The workplace stress and aggression project: A reflection on voices and knowing. In: Reason P, Bradbury H (eds) Handbook of action research: participative inquiry and practice, 2nd edn. London and Thousand Oaks, CA, Sage
12. Kowalski R, Harmon J, Yorks L, Kowalski D (2003) Reducing workplace stress and aggression: An action research project at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Hum Resour Plann 26:(2) 39-53
13. Nicolaides A, Yorks L (2006) Implications of complexity theory for co-inquiry for generative learning: The experience of an action research project in the Department of Veteran Affairs. Third Biennial International seminar on the Philosophical, Epistemological and Methodological Implications of Complexity Theory. Instituto de Filosofia, La Habana, Cuba
14. Nowotny H, Scott P, and Gibbons M (2001) Rethinking science: knowledge and the public in an age of uncertainty. Malden, MA, Blackwell Publishers
15. Quinn JB (1992) Intelligent enterprise: a knowledge and service based paradigm for industry. New York, Free Press
16. Reason P (1996). Reflections on the purposes of human inquiry. Qual Inq 2:15-28
17. Reid-Hector J (2006) Inquiry based learning practices and team learning: a model for experienced based adult learning. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York
18. Shaw P (2002) Changing conversations: a complexity approach to change. London and New York, Routledge
19. Stacey RD, Griffin D, Shaw P (2000) Complexity and management: fad or radical challenge to systems thinking? London and New York, Routledge
20. Stewart TA (1997) Intellectual capital: the new wealth of organizations. Garden City, NY, Doubleday
21. Steier F (1991) Research as self-reflexivity, self-reflexivity as social process. In: Steier F (ed), Research and reflexivity. London and Newbury Park, CA, Sage, pp 1-11
22. Torbert W (2001) The practice of action inquiry. In: Reason P, Bradbury H (eds) Handbook of action research: participatory inquiry and practice. London and Thousand Oaks, CA, Sage, pp 250-260
23. Torbert B, Associates (2004) Action inquiry: the power of transformative leadership. San Francisco, Berrett-Koehler
24. Twomey D, Yorks L, Harmon J (2001) Enhancing organization learning and change through data-driven collaborative inquiry. Symposium on Working along the practice-grounded research continuum. Academy of Management Annual Meeting. Washington, DC: August
25. Twomey D, Harmon J, Kowalski D, Kowalski R, Yorks L (2002) Discussion of Mode 2 research and the VA Project, British Academy of Management Special Research Forum on Mode 2 Knowledge Production. Organized by University of Glascow, and The University of Strathclyde. Scotland. March
26. Vaill PB (1996) Learning as a way of being. San Francisco, Jossey-Bass
27. Yorks L (2005) Adult learning and the generation of new knowledge and meaning: Creating liberating spaces for fostering adult learning through practitioner based collaborative action inquiry. Teachers College Record 107:1217-1244
28. Yorks L, Aprill A, James L, Ress A, Ospina S, Hoffman-Pinilla A (forthcoming) The tapestry of leadership: lessons from six cooperative inquiry groups of social justice leaders. In: Reason P, Bradbury H (eds) Handbook of action research:participatory inquiry and practice, 2nd edn. London and Thousand Oaks, CA, Sage
29. Yorks L, Kasl E (2002) Toward a theory and practice for whole-person learning: Reconceptualizing experience and the role of affect. Adult Educ Q 52:176-192
30. Yorks L, Kowalski D, Scaringi J Kowalski R (2001) Linking knowledge for informing action and actionable knowledge: qualitative research agenda. Academy of Management Annual Meeting. Washington, DC: August
31. Yorks L, Twomey DF, Keashly L, Neuman J, Kowalski D, Kowalski R, Scaringi J, Petzel RA, and Harmon J (2002) Symposium, How do we know what we think we know? Epistemic challenges of building academic-practice networks. Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Denver, CO: August