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Barber Paul |
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Titolo |
Becoming a practitioner researcher : a gestalt approach to holistic inquiry / / Paul Barber |
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Faringdon, Oxfordshire : , : Libri Publishing, , 2013 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (265 p.) |
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Collana |
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Management, Policy + Education |
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Research - Methodology |
Research - Management |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Copyright; Acknowledgements; Contents; Introduction (Pre-contact); i. Preamble - Researching Holistically and Experientially; ii. Learning Intentions of this Work - Facilitating Growth and Development; iii. Reading as Reflective Inquiry - This Text as Dialogical Research; iv. The Developmental Models of this Text - Capturing Flow and Depth; Approaching Gestalt and Holistic Inquiry (Orientation); Chapter 1 Researching Holistically - 'Doing Less' and 'Being More'; 1.1 Illuminating a Holistic and Transpersonal World - The Universe as a Dancing Gestalt |
1.2 Gestalt - Illuminating Patterns within a Contextual Whole1.3 Innate and Tacit Intelligence - Transpersonal Influences over and above the Self; 1.4 Humanism - Ethics with a Human Face; 1.5 The Practitioner-Researcher - Life and Work as Research; 1.6 The Researcher is the Primary Research Tool - Developing 'Mindfulness'; 1.7 Existence as Life-long Research - A Concluding Summary; Embodying Holism (Identification); Chapter 2 Appreciating the Energetic Whole - Insights from Field Theory and Gestalt; 2.1 Dynamics of the Phenomenological Field - Influences of Emergence and Dissolution |
2.2 Differing Dimensions of the Facilitative Relationship - Towards Authenticity2.3 Gestalt-informed Communication and Contact - A Dialogical Example of Collaborative Inquiry; 2.4 Staying with the Unbroken Wave of Moment-to-Moment Experience - 'Now'; 2.5 |
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Researching 'Here' and 'Now' - Some Questions to Pose to Yourself and Others; 2.6 Developmental Tasks in Holistic Inquiry - Setting some Conditions and Boundaries; Choosing a Method and Practising the Skills (Exploration); Chapter 3 Moving from Awareness into Practice - The Researcher as the Primary Research Tool |
3.1 'Becoming' and 'Being' the Research - Traditions of Qualitative Inquiry3.2 Maintaining Fluidity and Flexibility - Following the Energetic Flow; 3.3 Objective Subjectivity - Differing Perspectives of Qualitative Inquiry; 3.4 Applications to Life - Exploring and Experiencing the Whole; 3.5 The Nature of Research and Knowledge - When a Fact is a Fiction; 3.6 Aesthetics of Research - Bringing Partiality and Passion back to Life in Research; 3.7 If Deep Description is for You - How Might you go About It?; Extended Case Study A: Letting Experience Speak for itself |
Exploring Experience and Illuminating Data (Exploration)Chapter 4 Creating a Culture of Inquiry - Setting the Scene for Group Exploration; 4.1 The Inquiring Attitude - Values to Live and Research by; 4.2 Developing a Research Community - Lessons from Therapeutic Community Practice; 4.3 Facilitative Choices in Group Inquiry - Towards Mindful Intervention; 4.4 Researching from within the Group - The Researcher as Data in a Research Field; 4.5 Raising the Unaware to Awareness - The Shadow Side of Facilitative Inquiry; 4.6 Unconscious Bias - Actively Interfering with the Interference |
4.7 Perceptive and Methodological Bias - Illuminating your own Research Shadow |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Employing a Gestalt approach that places investigators in the center of their own practice, this is an indispensable guide for anyone undertaking inquiries in complex or changing organizational settings. Aiming to build a picture of awareness by prioritizing how people perceive, feel, and act, this resource provides entries within an ongoing practitioner-research journal throughout the text. Mini case studies to help clarify key points, as well as three extended case studies designed to illuminate the real-life drama of being a researcher a |
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