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Public universities are in crisis, waning in their role as central
institutions within democratic societies. Denunciations are
abundant, but analyses of the causes and proposals to re-create
public universities are not. Based on extensive experience with
Action Research-based organizational change in universities and
private sector organizations, Levin and Greenwood analyze the
wreckage created by neoliberal academic administrators and
policymakers. The authors argue that public universities must be
democratically organized to perform their educational and societal
functions. The book closes by laying out Action Research processes
that can transform public universities back into institutions that
promote academic freedom, integrity, and democracy.
Public universities are in crisis, waning in their role as central
institutions within democratic societies. Denunciations are
abundant, but analyses of the causes and proposals to re-create
public universities are not. Based on extensive experience with
Action Research-based organizational change in universities and
private sector organizations, Levin and Greenwood analyze the
wreckage created by neoliberal academic administrators and
policymakers. The authors argue that public universities must be
democratically organized to perform their educational and societal
functions. The book closes by laying out Action Research processes
that can transform public universities back into institutions that
promote academic freedom, integrity, and democracy.
This work contains a history of farming in a Spanish Basque town
where the farmers changed their subsistence farms into highly
profitable commercial enterprises in response to demand created by
tourism and industrialisation. In the period of highest profits
however, the young Basques began to abandon their farms and turned
to factory work at a much lower standard of living. The
institutional problems within both the farm families and the local
municipality are described along with the Basque ideas about the
dignity of work to help explain why such successful maximisers of
economic gain should ultimately reject economic rewards in favour
of other values. Davyyd Greenwood carefully examines the
relationships between workers of economic gain and the
institutional and cultural aspects of human behaviour. In
particular he argues that human behaviour is a complex mix of
motivations and that our methods must reflect this complexity.
The Second Edition of Introduction to Action Research: Social
Research for Social Change makes social science matter! It focuses
on how it is possible to combine practical problem solving with
generating new theoretical insights. Authors Davydd J. Greenwood
and Morten Levin combine a thorough discussion of the
epistemological foundations of action research with a broad
overview of major contemporary trends in the field. New to the
Second Edition: Includes a vast amount of updated information: Nine
chapters have been significantly updated, including two new
chapters that engage readers into the current debates on action
research as "tradition" or its own "methodology," and how action
research takes shape in the university environment. New textboxes
highlight important issues in each chapter and more detailed cases
and real-world examples illustrate the practical implications of AR
in a variety of settings. Incorporates a new structure: New
information pertains specifically to issues of techniques, work
forms, and research strategies based on the authors' experiences in
using the book in teaching. The book now has 4 parts instead of 3,
with an entirely new section on higher education and democracy as a
concluding section. Emphasizes the skill sets needed to do action
research: This book deals with the process of educating action
researchers and reviews a number of programs that do this. Specific
attention is given to the challenges of writing and intellectual
property in AR, and more focus is devoted to both adult and formal
education, creating a comprehensive overview of the field that is
not found in any other action research book. Intended Audience:
This is an excellent textbook for advanced undergraduate and
graduate courses in Action Research, Social Research, and
Qualitative Research across the social sciences.
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