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About the Authors | |
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Acknowledgements | |
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Preface | |
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Foundations | |
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Introducing Action Research | |
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A Brief Introduction To Action Research | |
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Three Audiences/Voices/Practices | |
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Enacting Action Research Cycles | |
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The Action Research Cycles | |
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Pre-Step: Context And Purpose | |
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Main Steps | |
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Meta Learning | |
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Quality And Rigour In Action Research | |
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Conclusions | |
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Enacting The Action Research Cycles | |
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Learning In Action | |
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Knowing And Learning | |
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General Empirical Method | |
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Authenticity | |
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Reflection | |
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Developing Reflective Skills Through Journaling | |
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Second Person Skills | |
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Conclusions | |
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First Person Learning In Action | |
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Keeping A Journal | |
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Developing Inquiry Skills | |
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Understanding Action Research | |
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Action Research As Practical Knowing | |
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Foundations Of Action Research | |
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Research Paradigms And Action Research | |
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Experiential Paradigms Of Action Research | |
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Conclusions | |
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Implementation | |
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Framing And Selecting Your Insider Project | |
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Framing The Action Research Project | |
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Selecting The Research Project | |
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Writing An Insider Action Research Proposal | |
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Developing The Action Research | |
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Conclusions | |
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Questions For Framing And Selecting | |
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Writing A Thesis Proposal | |
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Designing And Implementing Your Action Research Project | |
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The Process Of Planned Change | |
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Planned Change Through Action Research | |
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Learning By Design | |
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Data Generation As Intervention | |
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The Role Of Technology | |
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How Do You Know When To Stop? | |
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Conclusions | |
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The Process Of Implementation | |
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Reflection For Praxis | |
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Interlevel Dynamics In Insider Action Research | |
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Interlevel Dynamics Of Change | |
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Interlevel Dynamics Of Strategy | |
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Levels Of Analysis In Action Research | |
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Conclusions | |
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Applying Interlevel Dynamics | |
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Change Issues | |
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The Learning Window | |
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Using Frameworks To Study Organizations In Action | |
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Organizational Diagnosis | |
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Systems Thinking And Practice | |
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Systems Thinking And Action Research | |
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Change And Learning | |
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Conclusions | |
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Diagnosing Your Organization | |
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Using Systems Thinking | |
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Issues and Challenges in Researching Your Own Organization | |
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Researching Your Own Organization | |
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The Focus Of Researcher And System | |
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Traditional Research | |
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Classical Action Research | |
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Individual Reflective Study | |
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Tranformational Change | |
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Action Research At Home | |
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Conclusions | |
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Assessing Your Research Focus | |
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Preunderstanding, Role Duality And Access | |
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Preunderstanding | |
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Role Duality: Organizational And Researcher Roles | |
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Access | |
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Conclusions | |
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Assessing Your Preunderstanding | |
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Managing Organizational Politics And Ethics | |
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The Politics Of Researching Your Own Organization | |
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Managing Political Relationships | |
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Ethics | |
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Insider Action Research And Ethics | |
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Integrating Roles, Politics And Ethics | |
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Integrative Case | |
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Conclusion | |
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Assessing Politics And Ethics | |
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Force Field Analysis | |
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Writing Your Insider Action Research Dissertation | |
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An Action Research Dissertation | |
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Constructing And Writing A Dissertation | |
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Dissemination | |
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Publishing | |
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Conclusions | |
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In Conclusion | |
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References | |
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Author Index | |
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Subject Index | |