Co-operative inquiry : research into the human condition / / John Heron

• Autore: Heron John <1928->
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; Thousand Oaks, : Sage Publications, 1996; London ; ; Thousand Oaks : , : Sage Publications, , 1996
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (236 p.)
• Disciplina: 300/.72; 300.72
• Soggetto topico: Social sciences - Research; Social sciences - Research - Methodology; Participant observation; Group work in research
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-215) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book offers both an extensive exploration of the theoretical background to co-operative inquiry and a detailed practical guide to the methods involved.
• Titolo autorizzato: Co-operative inquiry
• ISBN: 1-85702-289-0; 1-282-55913-3; 9786612559136; 0-85702-289-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910822001903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II