Approaching Action Research from a Socioecological Perspective |
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Authors: | Michael Gloster |
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Institution: | (1) Graduate College of Management, Southern Cross University, Lismore, Australia;(2) P.O. Box 182, Noosa Heads, Queensland, 4567, Australia |
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Abstract: | The paper seeks to explicate an action research methodological framework that can provide practical guidance to those approaching action research from a socioecological perspective. It does so by revisiting the developmental foundations of the Emery and Trist socioecological paradigm, by drawing on insights left scattered throughout Emery's writings, and by drawing on the author's own experience in action research. The framework explicated seeks to provide practical guidance for (i) intervention in field settings, to coproduce open social systems–environment active adaptation, i.e., action-research guided interventions to produce sought management outcomes, and (ii) generation and formalization of theory extensions to socioecological theory concerned with intervention strategy and intervention methodologies, i.e., action-research guided generation of socioecological theory suitable for social scientific publication. |
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Keywords: | action research social ecology socioecological open social systems thinking open systems thinking |
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