Framing Practice-Research Engagement for Democratizing Knowledge
| Autor: | Frances Kunreuther, Srilatha Batliwala, L. David Brown, Gabriele Bammer |
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| Rok vydání: | 2003 |
| Předmět: |
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
Knowledge management Sociology and Political Science business.industry Strategy and Management Knowledge economy 05 social sciences Social change 050401 social sciences methods Participatory action research Public relations Practice research Grassroots Framing (social sciences) 0504 sociology 0502 economics and business Sociology Action research business 050203 business & management Democratization of knowledge |
| Zdroj: | Action Research. 1:81-102 |
| ISSN: | 1741-2617 1476-7503 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/14767503030011006 |
| Popis: | Practice research engagement (PRE) is increasingly important for producing knowledge and innovations in practice for complex social problem-solving. We pose several questions: Why do PRE? What is required to organize effective PRE? And what is needed for PRE to contribute to democratizing knowledge? We present a framework to encourage researchers to think systematically about organizing PRE that focuses on: 1) frameworks, goals and interests, 2) relationships and organization, 3) strategies and methods, and 4) contextual forces and institutions. We describe challenges to effective engagement posed by these elements and identify a few approaches to dealing with them. We illustrate the concept and the challenges with four case studies - Gender Relations in India; Heroin Prescriptions in Australia; Inter-sectoral Cooperation in Africa and Asia; and Building Grassroots Movements in the US. We argue that PRE that contributes to the democratization of knowledge must pay special attention to social change theories, power relations, long-term domain development strategies and building friendly institutional bases. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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