Ecologically and Transdisciplinarily Inspired Research: Starting Points for Practitioner Research and Sustainable Change

Developing pedagogical practices under umbrellas of different colours

“…Lisaks peetakse mõnikord selliste uuringute peamiseks valdkonnaks kunsti, käsitööd ja disaini, samas kui mõned teadlased väidavad, et praktikute teadusuuringud kuuluvad tavaliselt haridus-ning sotsiaal-ja tervishoiuvaldkonda. Vahel julgustatakse praktikuid rohkem teadusartikleid "tarbima" (Marshall, 2010), samas rõhu tavad teised teadlased praktikute tugevat autonoomset panust teadmiste loomisse ja kõnelevad "uurimisreisist" (Loughran, 2004) või praktilise tarkuse suurendamisest ja arendamisest koosloome kaudu (de Jong, de Beus, Richardson, & Ruijters, 2013). Praktiku tegevuse olulisust teadmiste loomises rõhutatakse eriti kriitiliste ja osalusuuringute traditsioonis (Carr & Kemmis, 1986;Heikkinen et al, 2007;Heikkinen et al, 2016;Kemmis & McTaggart, 2000).…”

What is (good) practitioner research?

“…The questions have often been posed in several EAPRIL conferences (e.g. Ros and Vermeulen, 2010;Bakx, A., Heeffer, & De Koster, 2011;De Jong, Beus, Richardson and Ruijters 2013;Heikkinen 2014); and outside EAPRIL over the years (e.g. Murray, 1992;Lewin, 1993;Lane & Corrie, 2007;Enthoven & de Bruijn, 2010;Schaenen, Kohnen, Flinn, Saul, & Zeni, 2012;Shaw & Lunt, 2012;Striker, 2002).…”

“…The realm of art, craft and design is sometimes emphasised as the main context (Candy 2006), whilst some others say that practitioner research is typically undertaken in the fields of education and in social-and health care (Campbell 2007). Sometimes practitioners are encouraged to become better 'consumers' of research reports (Marshall 2010), whereas others emphasise the strong autonomous agency of the practitioners in the production of knowledge and speak about a 'research journey' (Loughran 2014), or about empowering and developing wisdom in the practice by co-creation (De Jong et al 2013). The role of the practitioner agency in the production of knowledge is especially emphasised in the tradition of critical and participatory action research (Carr and Kemmis 2002;Kemmis and McTaggart 2000).…”

“…Reality might be more a dynamic, constant change of connections. Entities can be seen as just temporary connections, expressions of reciprocal dependency (De Jong et al 2013). This attitude challenges the quest for an objective standpoint, which has been emphasised in the ( …”

Service Productivity: What Stops Service Firms from Measuring It?

“…We hope that the present study helps facilitate such understanding, as well as encourages further practiceoriented as well as theory-building research (de Jong et al, 2013) into this topic. …”