TY - CHAP
T1 - Redefining Democratic Welfare
T2 - Openings and Future Orientations: Action Research in Danish Day Care Centres
AU - Ahrenkiel, Annegrethe
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - This chapter analyses how Action Research holds a genuine potential for promoting knowledge creation that can respond to the societal challenges faced by local communities. Building on a three-year Action Research project aiming to provide local communities with a say in future sustainability research, author have exemplifies how certain types of collaboration across local communities and expert cultures can allow for new orientations of science to emerge. In particular, author argues how Critical Utopian Action Research provides a methodological framework for doing so by building on a number of key concepts: the creation and doubling of free space, the common third, free distance and social imagination. A number of key principles seem particularly relevant: shared problem definition, funding possibilities for long-term collaboration processes, possibilities for researchers to work with local communities on their premises and academic recognition of the value of Action Research processes at the community level.
AB - This chapter analyses how Action Research holds a genuine potential for promoting knowledge creation that can respond to the societal challenges faced by local communities. Building on a three-year Action Research project aiming to provide local communities with a say in future sustainability research, author have exemplifies how certain types of collaboration across local communities and expert cultures can allow for new orientations of science to emerge. In particular, author argues how Critical Utopian Action Research provides a methodological framework for doing so by building on a number of key concepts: the creation and doubling of free space, the common third, free distance and social imagination. A number of key principles seem particularly relevant: shared problem definition, funding possibilities for long-term collaboration processes, possibilities for researchers to work with local communities on their premises and academic recognition of the value of Action Research processes at the community level.
U2 - 10.4324/9781315659909-8
DO - 10.4324/9781315659909-8
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 9781138961227
T3 - Advances in Research Methods Series
SP - 110
EP - 128
BT - Action Research for Democracy
A2 - Gunnarsson, Ewa
A2 - Hansen, Hans Peter
A2 - Nielsen, Birger Steen
A2 - Sriskandarajah, Nadarajah
PB - Routledge
CY - New York, Abingdon
ER -