Re: [xmca] method/methodology

[mike cole <lchcmike@gmail.com>]

These are all very helpful comments to me. Morten's note amplified my sense
that when we use the "same words" in these discussions, it really is
difficult to know if this is true, in the conventional sense. We have been
talking to each other for years using the word, activity, and as our
comments on Andy's book indicate, we have to be very careful when crossing
geographical/cultural borders, because, in detail, we are not talking about
the same "thing."

So, of course, with method/ology. I have heard the term, theory of method
used. But when I encounter the term in a comment about me talking about the
role of theory as an integral element in the system of inquiry, I get
confused. Are we talking about the same thing from different perspectives,
or does the perspective make a difference that makes a difference?

Think about all of this going to work this morning, I realized that when I
wrote about the question of methodology/method, the word "theory" almost
certainly didn't mean the same thing to me and Morten as well. After all,
they are ..... interdependent? ...
mutually constituting?

Perhaps a couple of good summaries of classic, Lewin-derived AR research
would serve as an anchor for sorting out misunderstandings from
disagreements.

Thanks for the link to Argyis-Engestrom. It has to be interesting.
mike





On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 9:11 AM, Martin Packer <packer@duq.edu> wrote:

> > In the selected article the last 60 years of AR, since Lewin,  are not
> >
> > reviewed and so it is difficult to see which 'contemporary positions'
> >
> > in AR are being supposed to potentially benefit from the comparison of
> >
> > LSV/Lewin in the selected article.
> >
> One of the developments of AR, of course, has been in the direction of
> Participatory Action Research. I attach a short article by one of the
> central Latin American figures in this work, Orlando Fals Borda, on the
> importance of thinking systematically and locally, and of recognizing the
> cultural frameworks within which scientific research is conducted. It was
> published in the first issue of the journal Action Research (2003).
>
> Martin
>
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