Introduction: How to Situate and Define Action Research - Hilary Bradbury PART ONE: PRACTICES Introduction to Practices - Alfredo Ortiz Aragon and Maria 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 Cafe 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. Baburoglu, Gulru Z. Goeker, 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 - Maria Teresa Castillo-Burguete, Carmen Garcia-Gomez, 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 Hellstroem 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 - Bjorn Gustavsen and yvind Palshaugen 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 Certoma 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 Aragon 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