Discourse democracy at work

Pålshaugen, Øyvind

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“…This is a "dialogue conference" environment used for the facilitation of collective decision-making through democratic dialogue. The conference provides a meeting ground where the participants involve as main actors and resources of knowledge (Pålshaugen, 2002). As much as it is mostly applied in work life, it is also used at regional and municipal level to facilitate economic development, mostly in Scandinavia.…”

Section: The Research Strategy: Participation In Urban Planningmentioning

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Constructing Co-generative Search Processes: Re-thinking Urban Planning/Making Urban Plans Actionable

Ataöv

2008

European Planning Studies

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The project discussed in this paper represents the participatory planning of Kocaeli in Turkey, which uses the "action research" approach, a more powerful approach compared to conventional approaches with respect to the value of democracy in city-wide decision-making and the actionable outcomes salient to the needs of the community. The use of action research in planning integrates research, theory, and action. It helps manage the change through action in the process of participation, while enhancing democratic dialogue within a changing power structure. The Kocaeli project takes a position in the "process" in order to understand the nonrhetoric, and in turn, to lead to social change. The literature often provides inadequate information about procedural descriptions and methodological means, which enable research to operate in practice. This paper focuses on developing a participation model for such a process. I present the project in five sections: (1) the context; (2) the research strategy; (3) the process principles; (4) the outcomes; (5) lessons learned.

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Section: The Research Strategy: Participation In Urban Planningmentioning

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Constructing Co-generative Search Processes: Re-thinking Urban Planning/Making Urban Plans Actionable

Ataöv

2008

European Planning Studies

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“…Following Dewey and Lewin, and many others (e.g. Flood & Romm, 1996;Greenwood & Levin, 1998;Gustavsen, 1992;Gustavsen, Finne, & Oscarsson, 2001;Pålshaugen, 2002), we argue for AR as a powerful way to engage people in creating knowledge that is meaningful to them and altering their existing situation into a liberated state through action. In such processes, involved people reach an agreement on shared actions, which, then, reenter into the process as inputs to foster new action rather than to develop self-contained theories (Gustavsen et al, 2001).…”

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An action research approach to the inclusion of immigrants in work life and local community life

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Hildrum³

2010

Action Research

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A B S T R A C TRecent increases in the immigrant population in Norway have raised the issue of immigrant inclusion in the Norwegian society. The political emphasis has been on welfare, education and health for many decades. However, today the increasing shortage of labor in the market has raised the issue of inclusion of the immigrant population in work life. This article documents a 3-year-long action research process that laid the groundwork for collaboration among public, private, and nongovernmental organizations in order to find solutions to this newly emergent need in work life. The purpose was to complement existing top-down policy initiatives in this area with a novel bottom-up strategy, aiming to facilitate action-oriented dialogues about the inclusion of immigrants in working life. Initially an international project targeting the cities of Oslo and Drammen was narrowed to a group of large firms in The Grorud Valley in Oslo, where a substantial proportion of the country's immigrants live and work. The project demonstrates several valuable aspects of this action-research strategy -such as creating a broad-based dialogue platform on which novel policies and practices might be generated -but also a number of challenges, such as mobilizing private firms to participate in dialogues and keeping initiated dialogues active. Action ResearchVolume 8(3): 237-265

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“…21. In Norway, the idea of establishing a public sphere within a private organisation as presented in Paalshaugen (2002) goes back to Kalleberg (1984). See also Eikeland (1985a).…”

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“…In other texts (for example, Eikeland 1997Eikeland , 1998Eikeland , 2001Eikeland , 2006bEikeland , 2008aEikeland , 2008b, I have tried to explain in more detail why the backstages created through development organisations also must be seen as 'counter-public' spheres inside organisations, not merely as ordinary public spheres like the mostly rhetorical public spheres of modern democratic societies at large, as suggested by Paalshaugen (2002). Hence, the participative dialogues needed 'backstage' are not in any simple sense neither 'democratic' nor 'negotiative', without thereby being anti-democratic, of course.…”

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Action research and organisational learning: a Norwegian approach to doing action research in complex organisations

Eikeland

2012

Educational Action Research

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The purpose of this article is to present a specific approach to the practice of action research 'in complex organisations'. Clearly, there are many approaches to the challenge of doing action research in organisations; approaches that are, and also must be, quite context dependent and specific. But my purpose is neither to give an overview nor a recommendation of how action research is or should be done in complex organisations by different schools of action researchers around the world. The approach I will present has grown through practical experience accumulated over many years with doing action research in many different Norwegian organisations with organisational change and development as the specific objective. I will limit myself to an outline of this Norwegian context, and to how I and others have worked specifically with organisational learning both practically and theoretically within or in relation to a broad Norwegian or Scandinavian approach to action research and organisation development represented by many individuals. 1

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Discourse democracy at work

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Constructing Co-generative Search Processes: Re-thinking Urban Planning/Making Urban Plans Actionable

Constructing Co-generative Search Processes: Re-thinking Urban Planning/Making Urban Plans Actionable

An action research approach to the inclusion of immigrants in work life and local community life

Action research and organisational learning: a Norwegian approach to doing action research in complex organisations

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