The Potential of Deweyan-Inspired Action Research

Stark, Jody

doi:10.1353/eac.2014.0013

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“…Action research fully assumes this perspective, while also making it more concrete than it appears to be in Dewey's pragmatism. As a result, I believe it also pushes pragmatism to its full epistemological, social, and ethical consequences (Stark 2014). A general transition can be noted from practice understood as an epistemological category, i.e., an abstract dimension of human inquiry (which Dewey connected to certain professions or institutions), to action research's focus on fully contextualized social practices.…”

Section: Action Research and Democracymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Action research should guide the institutional reform which aims to strengthen and improve democratic life in our society, a reform that is barely tackled or introduced in Dewey's work (on account of his superficial treatment of the institutional dimension of democracy) and which is even more necessary today, in the midst of neoliberalism, than it was in Dewey's lifetime. That Dewey's philosophy and action research share affinities is beyond dispute (Boog 2003;Harkavy & Puckett 2014;Stark 2014), since his work is one of the inspirations-together with Lewin's (1946) social psychology, with which it shares no small number of traits (Allport 1948)-consistently mentioned in action research literature. In line with this view, this section defines action research precisely by focusing on its effort to keep science and practice together (Adelman 1993).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Deweyan Democracy, Neoliberalism, and Action Research

Castro

2019

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This article aims to establish a line of continuity between John Dewey's democratic and educational ideals and the practice of action research, to justify that the latter affords an adequate means to enact Dewey's ideals against the destructive challenges that neoliberalism poses to democracy today. This aim involves three ideas that will be developed in three corresponding sections. After the Introduction, the first section analyzes at length the main tenets of Dewey's thoughts about democracy by emphasizing the role of the educational dimension. The article then approaches neoliberalism by focusing on one of its variants, New Public Management, and explains why the latter implies a direct erasure of Dewey's ideals concerning democracy, individual growth, education, and social advancement. Finally, the third section turns to action research and its potential to encourage our societies to move closer to Dewey's democratic ideals, and suggests that action research can begin to fill the gap that Dewey's work left concerning the institutional dimension of democracy.

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Section: Action Research and Democracymentioning

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Deweyan Democracy, Neoliberalism, and Action Research

Castro

2019

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“…This approach is neither an inductive, empirical model-going from the particular to the general, from practice to theory-nor a deductive approachwhich posits the primacy of the speculative moment and sees action as an application of a theoretical model. On the contrary, research-action finds itself always in the midst of a continuous movement, in which speculation and practice, knowledge and action can never be separated [14].…”

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Research-Action-Research Towards a Circular Urban System for Multi-level Regeneration in Historical Cities: The Case of Bologna

Gianfrate¹,

Djalali²,

Turillazzi³

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IJDNE

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Urban regeneration is a key topic in Europe as cities are asked to propose efficient actions for the transition toward a more liveable system. The singularities and specificities of each city urges for a flexible and multi-scale approach able to face and combine a mix of cultural heritage, social and economic constraints, climatic and architectural specificities. In order to work toward the definition of site-specific and flexible methods, the ROCK project investigates how to move towards a Circular Urban System Model to be applied to historic centres. The paper presents the concept and the pilot actions undertaken in Bologna to build a site-specific approach enabling local stakeholders to collaborate toward the definition of action plans for the transition into sustainable systems of places. The project adopts a multilevel methodology to create links among key areas, resources, stakeholders and tools in order to re-circulate local values for their valorisation and enhancement. The paper describes the elaboration and the research-action-research initiatives as results of Bologna's University area experimentations, deepening the relation among public spaces, local stakeholders and social exchanges. In particular, it presents the first experimentations of the project into this area: The Living Lab approach and co-design experiences.

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“…The closeness of Lewin to Dewey's pragmatism and his endeavor to democratically reform educational institutions from bottom-up is quite clear (Stark, 2014;Thiollent, 2011). Pragmatism is, of course, a stark contrast to large-scale empirical research with its roots in the logic of scientific positivism and thus mostly relies on assessment in educational contexts.…”

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Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice with Design-Based Action Research

Nijhawan¹

2017

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The Potential of Deweyan-Inspired Action Research

Cited by 40 publications

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Deweyan Democracy, Neoliberalism, and Action Research

Deweyan Democracy, Neoliberalism, and Action Research

Research-Action-Research Towards a Circular Urban System for Multi-level Regeneration in Historical Cities: The Case of Bologna

Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice with Design-Based Action Research

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