This third edition presents a fully updated version of the bestselling text, including new chapters written by key figures in the field covering emerging areas in healthcare, social work, education and international development, as well as an expanded 'skills' section which includes new consultant-relevant materials.

Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Notes on the Editor and Contributors; Introduction: How to Situate and Define Action Research; Part I -- Practices; Chapter 1 -- Introduction to Practices; Chapter 2 -- The Practice of Learning History: Local and Open System Approaches; Chapter 3 -- PRA, PLA and Pluralism: Practice and Theory; Chapter 4 -- Developing the Practice of Leading Change Through Insider action Research: A Dynamic Capability Perspective; Chapter 5 -- Innovations in Appreciative Inquiry: Critical Appreciative Inquiry with Excluded Pakistani Women. Chapter 6 -- Collaborative Developmental Action InquiryChapter 7 -- Systematization of Experiences: A Practice of Participatory Research from Latin America; Chapter 8 -- Empowerment Evaluation and Action Research: A Convergence of Values, Principles, and Purpose; Chapter 9 -- Action Evaluation: An Action Research Practice for the Participative Definition, Monitoring, and Assessment of Success in Social Innovation and Conflict Engagement; Chapter 10 -- Theatre in participatory action research: Experiences from Bangladesh. Chapter 11 -- Using T-Groups to Develop Action Research Skills in Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous EnvironmentsChapter 12 -- The Action Research Practice of Urban Planning -- An Example from Hong Kong; Chapter 13 -- The Artistry of Emancipatory Practice: Photovoice, Creative Techniques, and Feminist Anti-Racist Participatory Action Research; Chapter 14 -- Action Science Revisited: Building Knowledge Out of Practice to Transform Practice; Chapter 15 -- Systemic Intervention. Chapter 16 -- Community-Based Participatory Research with Communities Defined by Race, Ethnicity, and Disability: Translating Theory to PracticeChapter 17 -- Action Learning; Chapter 18 -- The Network Leadership Innovation Lab: A Practice for Social Change; Chapter 19 -- Awareness-Based Action Research: Catching Social Reality Creation in Flight; Chapter 20 -- The World Café in Action Research Settings; Chapter 21 -- Ethnographic Action Research: Media, Information and Communicative Ecologies for Development Initiatives; Chapter 22 -- Re-Fashioning Citizens' Juries: Participatory Democracy in Action. Chapter 23 -- The Practice of Helping Students to Find Their First Person Voice in Creating Living-Theories for EducationChapter 24 -- The Practice of Teaching Co-Operative Inquiry; Part II -- Exemplars; Chapter 25 -- Introduction to Exemplars; Chapter 26 -- Symbiosis of Action Research and Deliberative Democracy in the Context of Participatory Constitution-Making; Chapter 27 -- Action Research in Universities and Higher Education Worldwide; Chapter 28 -- 'I'm Not Afraid of Him; That Dog Barks But He Don't Bite'. PAR Processes, Gender Equity and Emancipation with Women in Yucatn, Mexico1. Chapter 29 -- Insurgent Inquiry: Connecting Action Research, Impact Evaluation, and Global Strategy in a Rights-Based International Development NGO.