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Critique, advocacy, and dissemination

I've got the data and the findings, now what?

Karen Keifer-Boyd

pp. 197-215

Abstract

While any of the action methods overviewed so far can be considered appropriate for conducting advocacy research, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Action research as social justice research becomes advocacy when the project extends beyond data collection and analysis to answer research questions that also change the current status of conditions impacting teaching, learning, and working. Here, ethics are of the utmost importance, and reciprocity between researcher and participants is emphasized through dialogically based research methods to avoid exploitation. This chapter addresses strategies and avenues for using action research as a path for change and advocacy, drawing upon Augusto Boal's participatory theater strategies for difficult dialogues, in that a focus on ethics involves mutually educative dialogue, reciprocal reflexivity, and intersubjectivity (Alexander & Mohanty, 2010; Boal, 1985, 1992; Brouwer, Mulder, Nigten, & Martz, 2005; Butler, 2005; Dill & Zambrana, 2009; Fischer, 2010; Lykes & Coquillon, 2006).

Publication details

Published in:

Klein Sheri R. (2012) Action research methods: plain and simple. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.

Pages: 197-215

DOI: 10.1057/9781137046635_10

Full citation:

Keifer-Boyd Karen (2012) „Critique, advocacy, and dissemination: I've got the data and the findings, now what?“, In: S. R. Klein (ed.), Action research methods, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 197–215.