Our story about making a difference in nursing practice through action research

Jenkins, Emrys; Jones, Jane; Keen, Delia; Kinsella, Faye; Owen, Tracy; Pritchard, D. F. L.; Rees, Susan

doi:10.1080/09650790500200287

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“…Whilst other practitioners who we have helped to become investigators of their own practice have also learned through intellectual, aesthetic and expressive creativity and have experienced a release of energy from creative practice (Coats et al, 2004), it is this uplifting quality and openness, with all the senses, to nature that seems to link us most closely to human flourishing. It seems as if direct contact with nature, in addition to framing reflection through analogies with it (see, for example, Woolhouse, 2005;Jenkins et al, 2005), is central. This juxtaposition is a huge new area of work that the cooperative inquiry Spiralling towards transformational action research 345 is enjoying both in terms of fun and play arising from using metaphors, symbols, creative writing, body sculpture and visual images to critique ideas, and to develop the philosophical and theoretical underpinnings for achieving human flourishing as both end and means in TAR.…”

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Spiralling towards transformational action research: philosophical and practical journeys

Titchen

Manley

2006

Educational Action Research

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The two-stranded spiral shown in Figure 1 represents two aspects of the authors' journey in becoming critical. The journey, conveyed through discussion, reflexive accounts and illustrations of particular and summary achievements, shows how Carr and Kemmis's work has influenced the authors as action researchers, both individually and together, in nursing, over 16 years. The first strand unfurls their journey as they learned to develop their philosophical and theoretical understandings of action research as collaborative, emancipatory and transformational. They show how they now use innovative and creative methodologies to transform practice and, simultaneously, develop critical practice theory that draw on assumptions from different worldviews in the same study. Their Figure 1. Parallel and deepening philosophical and practical journeys 334 A. Titchen and K. Manleysecond strand is concerned with the creation of critical communities of healthcare practitioners who undertake action research to transform themselves, practices and organisations. This strand shares the practicalities of an action research team genuinely involving stakeholders in the collaborative, democratic design of projects, their implementation and evaluation. Both strands are concerned with preparing practitioners as researchers of their own practice and with human flourishing as both the end and means of action research. Seven insights are presented. Figure 1. Parallel and deepening philosophical and practical journeys

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Section: Spiralling Towards Transformational Action Research 343mentioning

confidence: 97%