SIG: Action Research: Difference between revisions

==Focus of the Action Research SIG==

The focus of the Action Research SIG at the [[International Society for the Systems Sciences|ISSS]] was defined to be the application of [[Action Research|action research]] approaches to [[Systems Sciences]] where Action Research is defined as a participatory, democratic process concerned with developing practical knowing in the pursuit of worthwhile human purposes, grounded in a participatory worldview which we believe is emerging at this historical moment. It seeks to bring together action and reflection, theory and practice, in participation with others, in the pursuit of practical solutions of pressing concern to people and more generally the flourishing of individual persons and their communities. (Reason and Bradbury 2008, p. 4).

The SIG also focuses on the coherence of AR and other SIGs in the ISSS. The last focus was on the [[Critical Social Theory]] perspective that some action researchers share with [[Critical Systems Thinking]].