08681nam 2200745 a 450 991082200190332120240505220437.01-85702-289-01-282-55913-397866125591360-85702-289-X(CKB)2520000000007712(OCoLC)654439855(CaPaEBR)ebrary10369717(SSID)ssj0000336220(PQKBManifestationID)12087780(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000336220(PQKBWorkID)10278247(PQKB)10724710(MiAaPQ)EBC483383(Au-PeEL)EBL483383(CaPaEBR)ebr10369717(CaONFJC)MIL255913(OCoLC)609855857(OCoLC)1193336637(FINmELB)ELB133642(EXLCZ)99252000000000771219960827d1996 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrCo-operative inquiry research into the human condition /John Heron1st ed.London ;Thousand Oaks Sage Publications1996London ;Thousand Oaks :Sage Publications,1996.1 online resource (236 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8039-7684-4 0-8039-7683-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-215) and index.Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- A brief history of co-operative inquiry -- The problem of a new orthodoxy -- The overlap with other forms of participative research -- The relation with qualitative research -- The fifth paradigm -- The poststructural antiparadigm paradigm -- Truth, validity and beyond -- Precursors of the participative paradigm -- The question of data -- 2. Research Method and Participation -- Participative research with people -- Epistemic and political participation -- Full form co-operative inquiry -- Partial form co-operative inquiry -- Supported action inquiry -- Quantitative research on people -- Problems for traditional quantitative research -- Qualitative research about people -- Problems for traditional qualitative research -- Research for people -- The academic status quo -- Authoritarian collusion between teaching and research -- Extension of human rights -- Propositional bias -- Holistic knowledge and systemic logic -- Primacy of the practical -- 3. Overview of Co-operative Inquiry -- Inquiry outcomes -- The range of inquiry topics -- Launching an inquiry group -- Initiators' call -- Call for initiators -- Group bootstrap -- Types of inquiry -- Internally or externally initiated -- Full or partial form -- Same, reciprocal, counterpartal or mixed role -- Inside or outside -- Closed or open boundary -- Apollonian or Dionysian -- Informative or transformative -- An outline of inquiry stages -- Extended epistemology and the inquiry cycle -- The pyramid and circuit models -- Four kinds of belief -- Four cognitive modes and stages of the inquiry cycle -- Validity, special inquiry skills and validity procedures -- Special inquiry skills -- Validity procedures -- 4. Initiating an Inquiry Group -- Three-stranded initiation -- The inquiry strand -- The collaboration strand.The emotional and interpersonal strand -- Initiators, academia and reports -- 5. Stages of the Inquiry Cycle -- Stage 1 (1) Focus and type of inquiry -- Stage 1 (2) A launching statement -- Stage 1 (3) The first action plan -- Divergent and convergent -- Part and whole -- Length of the action phase -- Stage 1 (4) Data generation methods -- Standard methods -- Presentational methods -- Radical memory -- Stage 1 Inquiry culture -- Stage 2 The first action phase -- Issues of recording data -- Stage 3 Experiential immersion -- Falling asleep -- Threshold oscillation -- Celebration, inquiry and creativity -- Stage 4 (1) The second reflection phase: making sense -- Reporting, collating and reviewing -- Making sense and reaching agreement -- Presentational and propositional meaning -- Informative meaning in propositional form -- Transformative meaning: portrayals and propositions -- Stage 4 (2) Planning the second action phase -- Imagination, motivation and the logic of method -- Stage 4 (3) Review of inquiry procedures -- Subsequent stages -- Dionysian and Apollonian cultures -- Reflection meeting format -- Validity: procedures and skills -- Final reflection -- Endings, outcomes and reports -- 6. Inquiry Outcomes -- Holistic epistemology and the primacy of the practical -- Four kinds of outcome -- Inseparable and separable outcomes -- Transformative, illuminative and informative outcomes -- The range of propositional outcomes -- Outcomes and meta-outcomes -- Transcendent practice -- The ineffability of knacks -- A culture of competence -- The action paradox -- 7. Radical Memory and Inquiry Skills -- Informative memory and paying heed -- The routinization of perception -- Extraordinary perceptual heed -- Transformative memory and paying heed -- Extraordinary practical heed -- Informative inquiry skills.Radical perception: being present and imaginally open -- Varieties of bracketing -- Reframing -- The relevance of Buddhist practices -- Transformative inquiry skills -- Radical practice: dynamic congruence -- Emotional competence -- Non-attachment -- Self-transcending intentionality -- Skill in articulating values -- Values and principles -- Inquiry skills and critical subjectivity -- Extraordinary consciousness and multi-level mind -- Training for inquiry -- 8. Validity Procedures -- Research cycling -- Individual research cycling -- Collective research cycling -- Combined research cycling -- Fourfold interaction -- The balance of divergence and convergence -- Within and between phases -- Total divergence -- Total convergence -- Intermediate model -- Polarities of method -- The reflection phase -- The balance between reflection and action -- Aspects of reflection -- Description -- Evaluation -- Explanation -- Application -- Challenging uncritical subjectivity -- Chaos and order -- The management of unaware projections -- Sustaining authentic collaboration -- Open and closed boundaries -- Variegated replication -- Concerted action -- 9. Validity and Beyond -- Validity in quantitative research -- Validity in qualitative inquiry -- Participative reality -- Truth as the congruent articulation of reality -- The primacy of the practical -- Practice as consummation -- Grounding and consummation -- More on the congruence theory of truth -- Beyond pragmatism -- Autonomous forms of validity -- The validation of practice -- Executive criteria -- Technical criteria -- Psychosocial criteria -- Intentionality criteria -- Value criteria -- The validation of propositions -- Participative knowing -- Agreements about findings -- Reality-making social contracts -- 10. A Postconceptual Worldview -- Primary and secondary meaning -- Linguistic forms of secondary meaning.Preconceptual, conceptual and postconceptual worlds -- The classic problem of phenomenology -- A sketch of a postconceptual world -- Participation -- Communion -- Seamlessness -- Imagination is reality -- Centre and circumference -- Figure and ground -- The body as imaginal artefact -- Presences and objects -- Consciousness is spatial -- Conclusion -- 11. Arguments for Co-operative Inquiry -- The problems of positivism -- Positivist research in trouble: the medical case -- Arguments for co-operative inquiry -- The human condition -- Persons in relation -- Research behaviour and self-determination -- Research behaviour and intentionality -- An extended epistemology -- The use of language -- The rights and duties of subjects and researchers -- References -- Index.This book offers both an extensive exploration of the theoretical background to co-operative inquiry and a detailed practical guide to the methods involved.Social sciencesResearchSocial sciencesResearchMethodologyParticipant observationGroup work in researchSocial sciencesResearch.Social sciencesResearchMethodology.Participant observation.Group work in research.300/.72300.72Heron John1928-1715451MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910822001903321Co-operative inquiry4110112UNINA