Co-Operative Inquiry: Research Into the Human Condition

Voorkant
SAGE, 4 dec 1996 - 225 pagina's
This is the first book to provide a comprehensive account of co-operative inquiry: a way of doing research with people where the roles of researcher and subject are integrated.

Co-operative inquiry is a distinctive and wide-ranging form of participative research in which people use the full range of their sensibilities to inquire together into any aspect of the human condition. This book offers both an extensive exploration of its theoretical background and a detailed practical guide to the methods involved. Topics covered include: a critique of established research techniques; the underlying participative paradigm of co-operative inquiry; the epistemological and political aspects of participation; different types of

 

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Introduction
1
The relation with qualitative research
9
The question of data
18
Problems for traditional quantitative research
26
Overview of Cooperative Inquiry
36
Initiating an Inquiry Group
62
Stages of the Inquiry Cycle
73
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80
Training for inquiry
127
Validity Procedures
131
Validity and Beyond
158
A Postconceptual Worldview
178
Arguments for Cooperative Inquiry
197
References
209
12
211
Index
217

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92
Inquiry Outcomes
104
Radical Memory and Inquiry Skills
115
10
120

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Over de auteur (1996)

John Heron founded the Human Potential Research Group at the University of Surrey, and later pioneered personal and professional development programs for doctors, as Assistant Director, British Postgraduate Medical Federation, University of London. He now runs the South Pacific Centre for Human Inquiry, New Zealand.

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