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Action Research as Spiritual Practice
Peter Reason
Prepared for the University of Surrey Learning Community Conference
May 4/5 2000
For me spiritual life is not an interest, it's a way of life, of being in the world, the foundation of everything. bell hooks, (hooks, 1991:218)
One of the interesting debates within the family of methods which we call action researchco-operative inquiry, participatory action research, action science, action inquiry, appreciative inquiryhas concerned what we mean by validity. Positivist science is (relatively) clear that validity is about epistemology, about truth in some sense, a correspondence between theory and empirical evidence. However, in action research, as we have explored these questions, we have realized that validity, or a better term may be quality, is a rather different, and more multidimensional, notion.
There is clearly an epistemological dimension to quality in action......
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Title: Action Research As Spiritual Practice
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