Taking the action turn: Lessons from bringing participation to qualitative research
Taking the action turn: Lessons from bringing participation to qualitative research
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采取行动:将参与引入定性研究的经验教训
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2008
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Amparo Hofmann
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S. Ospina;Jennifer Dodge;E. Foldy;Amparo Hofmann
This chapter tells the story of our explicit decision to introduce participation as a key feature of a large-scale, multi-year, US-based research project to study social change leadership. We invited those who would have been the ‘subjects’ of the research to coinquire about their experience of leadership. Embracing participation opened up and enriched the research in many ways. It also generated tensions and challenges that would have been absent had we followed a more traditional qualitative research path. Given the action turn, more and more qualitative researchers are including elements of action research in their work, yet this marriage is not straightforward. We provide hard-earned insights about the trade-offs of combining these approaches. The research took place as part of a foundation-funded recognition program for social change leaders. Our decision to make the research participatory grew out of our position at the center of several competing interests: of participants, ourselves and our research community, and the funder. Choosing to honor each of these relationships led to a hybrid design that combined elements of action research and traditional 28