Spiralling towards transformational action research: Philosophical and practical journeys

Educational Action Research

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 333-356

  Titchen, Angie ^a   Manley, Kim ^a  

^a RCN Institute   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Action Research; Critical Practice Theory; Epistemology; Human Flourishing; Ontology; Stakeholder Evaluation; Transformation

Indexed keywords

EID: 39049125000     PISSN: 09650792     EISSN: 17475074     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09650790600847479     Document Type: Article

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