Introduction: How to Situate and Define Action Research - Hilary Bradbury
PART ONE: PRACTICES
Introduction to Practices - Alfredo Ortiz Aragón and María Teresa Castillo-Burguete
The Practice of Learning History: Local and Open System Approaches - Hilary Bradbury, George Roth, Margaret Gearty
PRA, PLA and Pluralism: Practice and Theory - Robert Chambers
Developing the Practice of Leading Change through Insider Action Research: A Dynamic Capability Perspective - David Coghlan and A.B. Shani
Innovations In Appreciative Inquiry: Critical Appreciative Inquiry With Excluded Pakistani Women - Graham Duncan
Collaborative Developmental Action Inquiry - Aftab Erfan and Bill Torbert
Systematization of Experiences: A Practice of Participatory Research from Latin America - Elza Falkembach and Alfonso Torres Carillo
Empowerment Evaluation and Action Research: A Convergence of Values, Principles, and Purpose - David M. Fetterman
Action Evaluation: An Action Research Practice for the Participative Definition, Monitoring, and Assessment of Success in Social Innovation and Conflict Engagement - Victor J. Friedman and Jay Rothman
Theatre in Participatory Action Research: Experiences from Bangladesh - Meghna Guhathakurta
Using T-Groups to Develop Action Research Skills In Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous Environments - Michael Krot and Lisa Stefanac
The Action Research Practice of Urban Planning - An Example from Hong Kong - Hok Bun Ku & Jackie Y. C. Kwok
The artistry of emancipatory practice: Photovoice, creative techniques, and feminist anti-racist participatory action research - M. Brinton Lykes and Holly Scheib
Action Science Revisited: Building Knowledge Out of Practice to Transform Practice - Diana McLain Smith
Systemic Intervention - Gerald Midgley
Community Based Participatory Research with communities defined by race, ethnicity, and disability: Translating theory to practice - Christina Nicolaidis and Dora Raymaker
Action Learning - Mike Pedler and John Burgoyne
The Network Leadership Innovation Lab: A Practice for Social Change - Elissa Perry, Robin Katcher, Mark Leach and Laurie Mazur
Awareness-Based Action Research: Catching Social Reality Creation in Flight - Otto Scharmer and Katrin Kaufer
The World Café in Action Research Settings - Frederick Steier, Juanita Brown and Flavio Mesquita da Silva
Ethnographic Action Research: Media, information and communicative ecologies for development initiatives - Jo Tacchi
Re-Fashioning Citizens' Juries: Participatory Democracy In Action - Tom Wakeford, Michel Pimbert and Erin Walcon
The practice of helping students to find their first person voice in creating living-theories for Education - Jack Whitehead
The Practice of Teaching Co-operative Inquiry - Lyle Yorks
PART TWO: EXEMPLARS
Introduction to Exemplars - Svante Lifvergren and Kent Glenzer
Symbiosis of Action Research and Deliberative Democracy in the Context of Participatory Constitution-Making - Oguz N. Babüroglu, Gülru Z. Göker, Emre Koyuncu
Action Research in Universities and Higher Education Worldwide - Rebecca Boden, Davydd Greenwood, Budd Hall, Morten Levin, Judi Marshall, and Susan Wright
'I'm not afraid of him; that dog barks but he don't bite'. PAR processes, gender equity and emancipation with women in Yucatan, Mexico - María Teresa Castillo-Burguete, Carmen García-Gómez, Pedro Castro-Borges and Federico Dickinson
Insurgent inquiry: Connecting action research, impact evaluation, and global strategy in a rights-based international development NGO - Kent Glenzer, Elisa Martinez, and Michael Drinkwater
Action Research with Marginalized Immigrants' Coming to Voice: Twenty Years of Social Movement Support in Taiwan and Still Going - Hsiao-Chuan Hsia
Improving health and well being: Researching alongside marginalized people across diverse domains - Tina Koch
After a Decade of Action Research: Impactful Systems Improvement in Swedish Healthcare - Svante Lifvergren, Tony Huzzard and Andreas Hellström
Action Research As A Transformative Force In Management Education: Introducing The Collaboratory - Katrin Muff
Achieving Equity in Education - Ernie Stringer
PART THREE: GROUNDINGS
Introduction to Groundings - Hilary Bradbury
Praxis - Retrieving the Roots of Action Research - Olav Eikeland
Core Issues in Modern Epistemology for Action Researchers: dancing between knower and known - Gil Coleman
Social Construction and Research as Action - Kenneth J. Gergen and Mary M. Gergen
How to succeed in action research without really acting: Tracing the development of action research to constructivist practice in organizational worklife - Bjørn Gustavsen and ¿yvind Pålshaugen
Organization Development: Action Research for Organizational Change - David Coghlan
Evolutionary Systems Thinking: What Gregory Bateson, Kurt Lewin, and Jacob Moreno Offered to Action Research That Still Remains to be Learned - Davydd J. Greenwood
How Change Happens: The implications of complexity and systems thinking for Action Research - Danny Burns
Complex Systems and Emergence in Action Research - Benyamin Lichtenstein
Critical theory and critical participatory action research - Stephen Kemmis, Robin McTaggart and Rhonda Nixon
Power and Knowledge - John Gaventa and Andrea Cornwall
Research, Participation and Social Transformation: Grounding Systematization of Experiences in Latin American Perspectives - Danilo R. Streck and Oscar Jara Holiday
Knowledge Democracy, Community Based Action Research, The Global South And The Excluded North - George Ladaah Openjuru, Namrata Jaitli, Rajesh Tandon and Budd Hall
Participatory Action Research: Its Origins and Future in Women's Ways - Marja-Liisa Swantz
The Location of Race in Action Research - Erica Gabrielle Foldy
Sex and Sensibilities: Doing Action Research while Respecting Even Inspiring Dignity - Lauren Martin
Crowdsourcing and Action Research. Fostering people's participation in research through digital media - Chiara Certomà and Michel Pimbert
Naturally emerging regulation and the danger of delegitimizing conventional leadership: Drawing on the example of Wikipedia - Dariusz Jemielniak
Action Research in an Online World - Dusty Columbia Embury
Large Scale Change Action Research - Steve Waddell, Milla McLachlan, Greta Meszoely and Sandra Waddock
Companions to Action Research: Reaching beyond our networks to build alignments and a common repository of resources - Gabriele Bammer
Action Research and Ecological Practice - Peter Reason and Susan Canney
Ecofeminism and systems thinking: Shared ethics of care for action research - Anne Stephens
The Integrating (Feminine) Reach Of Action Research: A Nonet For Epistemological Voice - Hilary Bradbury
Expanding Reach and Justice with PAR: Working with More Than Humans - Debra Merskin and Debra Durham
PART FOUR: SKILLS
Introduction to Skills - Dusty Columbia Embury
Widening the Circle: Ethical Reflection in Action Research and the Practice of Structured Ethical Reflection - Mary Brydon-Miller, Amy Rector Aranda, and Douglas M. Stevens
The Skillful Means of Engaged Research - Jacques M. Chevalier, Daniel J. Buckles and Michelle Bourassa
Feelings in first person action research - Hanne Heen
Clearing Obstacles: An Exercise to Expand a Person's Repertoire of Action - Elaine Herdman-Barker and Aftab Erfan
A cross-cultural approach with East-Asian epistemology: Developing soft skills in action research - Noriyuki Inoue
Cultivating Intention (As we enter the fray): The Practice of Embodying Presence, Awareness, and Purpose as Action Researchers - David McCallum and Aliki Nicolaides
Holding Theory Skillfully in Consulting Interventions - Grady McGonagill and Dana Carman
You Better Check Your Method Before You Wreck Your Method: Challenging and Transforming Photovoice - Angie P. Mejia
Discovering Philosophical Assumptions That Guide Action Research: The Reflexive Toolbox Approach - Michael O'Rourke, Chad Gonnerman, Stephen J. Crowley, and Troy E. Hall
Radical epistemology as caffeine for social change - Alfredo Ortiz Aragón and Juan Carlos Giles Macedo
Mediated dialogue in action research - Charles J. Palus and John B. McGuire
Teaching The Heart of Action Research Skills: Breaking Free in the Classroom - Timothy Pyrch
Practice of Mindful Intuition: Bi-Directional Openness: The Skill of Expressing And Sensing Leadership That Serves a Group - Yumi Sera
Designerly Ways for Action Research - Howard Silverman
Nurturing Creative Destruction: Bringing Management Mindsets and Influence Skillsets to Health Care - Nicole A. Steckler and James J. Huntzicker
Teaching and Learning Reflective Practice in the Action Science/Action Inquiry Tradition - Steven S. Taylor, Jenny W. Rudolph, and Erica Gabrielle Foldy
From Research "On" to Research "With": Developing Skills for Research with Sex Workers - Emily van der Meulen
Shared inquiry capabilities and differing inquiry preferences: Navigating 'full cycle' iterations of action research - Yoland Wadsworth
Unlocking the Secrets of Personal and Systemic Power: The Power Lab and Action Inquiry in the Classroom - Nancy C. Wallis