Managing the delicate matter of advice giving: Accomplishing communicative space in Critical Participatory Action Research

Critical participatory action research (CPAR) requires communicative space to develop shared understandings and decisions (Kemmis, 2007). We examine the interactional accomplishment of such a space between a classroom practitioner and an academic researcher when meeting to reflect on a lesson and agree on future action. Conversation analysis of an audio recording establishes how advice giving emerged and was managed as a delicate matter requiring shared understandings of what actually happened in the lesson, what could have happened, and what should happen in the future. Findings provide insight into ways participants in CPAR arrive at collective decisions through interaction.