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Validating Action Research field studies: PEArL
journal contribution
posted on 2015-09-03, 15:26 authored by Donna Champion, Frank A. StowellThe difficulty of establishing the validity of Action Research field studies has been
well documented. Enabling interested individuals to follow the route of inquiry, or
“recover” the inquiry process, has provided some means of addressing the difficult issue
of validation. Such an approach, however, still fails to provide a sense of the manner in
which an inquirywas undertaken, which can be important when individuals, participants
in the inquiry or otherwise, are making their own judgments concerning validity. In
this paper we argue that by supporting any interested individuals in making their own
judgments concerning the manner in which the inquiry process was undertaken, it is
possible for a public perception of the authenticity and credibility, or character, of that
inquiry process to emerge. We argue that such a perception is an essential aspect of
making judgments concerning the validity of an Action Research project.
History
School
- Business and Economics
Department
- Business
Published in
SYSTEMIC PRACTICE AND ACTION RESEARCHVolume
16Issue
1Pages
21 - 36 (16)Citation
CHAMPION, D. and STOWELL, F.A., 2003. Validating Action Research field studies: PEArL. Systemic Practice and Action Research, 16 (1), pp. 21 - 36.Publisher
© Plenum Publishing CorporationVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Publication date
2003Notes
This article was accepted for publication in the journal, Systemic Practice and Action Research. The final publication is available at Springer via: http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1021928511690ISSN
1094-429XPublisher version
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- en