Berbahagia sekali ada satu buku berjudul, “ACTION RESEARCH IN WORKPLACE EDUCATION” karya Maurice Taylor . Buku ini merupakan Handbook bagi para peneliti atau instruktur penelitian tindakan kelas untuk seting tempat kerja. Memang ini, bukan kategori classroom action research, tapi lebih umum, walaupun diterapkan dalam bidang pendidikan. Dalam buku ini dijelaskan tiga hal penting terkait dengan [...]
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This paper came about in response to requests to speak about some of the collective wisdom that has been generated over many decades by people who have identified what they do using the term ‘participatory action research’. It is the way I tell the story.
Throughout this account participatory action research is contrasted with formulations of conventional research science. For me, participatory action research is not a different and separate matter from science at all, but constitutes a formulation of how I understand all science in the wake of the wave of thinking that is popularly being called the ‘new physics’. This ‘new physics’ or ‘new paradigm science’ 4 in the natural physical world seems to me to match a ‘new paradigm science’ in the social world. I identify ‘participatory action research’ 5 not as an optional variant or specialist technique, but as one of the more inclusive descriptions of this new understanding of social science.