TY - JOUR
T1 - What is to be done? The place of action research
AU - Kemmis, Stephen
N1 - Imported on 12 Apr 2017 - DigiTool details were: month (773h) = Dec 2010; Journal title (773t) = Educational Action Research. ISSNs: 0965-0792;
PY - 2010/12
Y1 - 2010/12
N2 - Action research concerns action, and transforming people's practices (as well as their understandings of their practices and the conditions under which they practise). Sometimes we may feel that action research works best when it contributes to our understandings. In this paper, by contrast, I want to explore the 'happening-ness' of action and practice, as they are lived and changed by action research. I want to explore the place of action research in shaping and making history by changing what is done. The central argument of this paper is that, while action research certainly does contribute to theory, it also, and perhaps more importantly, contributes to history.
AB - Action research concerns action, and transforming people's practices (as well as their understandings of their practices and the conditions under which they practise). Sometimes we may feel that action research works best when it contributes to our understandings. In this paper, by contrast, I want to explore the 'happening-ness' of action and practice, as they are lived and changed by action research. I want to explore the place of action research in shaping and making history by changing what is done. The central argument of this paper is that, while action research certainly does contribute to theory, it also, and perhaps more importantly, contributes to history.
KW - Open access version available
KW - Action research
KW - Practice architectures
KW - Praxis
KW - Sustainability
U2 - 10.1080/09650792.2010.524745
DO - 10.1080/09650792.2010.524745
M3 - Article
SN - 0965-0792
VL - 18
SP - 417
EP - 427
JO - Educational Action Research
JF - Educational Action Research
IS - 4
ER -