Cases and stories of transformative action research : five decades of collaborative action and learning / John A. Bilorusky.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Part I. Applications -- Program evaluations -- Uses of action research in community organizations -- Community-based thinks tanks -- Toward expert knowledge and human development - the curriculum of the "experimenting community" -- Using transformative action-inquiry during the COVID-19 pandemic: critiquing studies and facing decision-making dilemmas -- Part II. Illustrations -- Intellectual activism and action research - a case study on workplace bullying -- Multifaceted, comprehensive actions-oriented research, aimed at preserving and restoring the Omaha culture -- Stories, concepts, and methods of participatory action research - transforming individuals and groups -- Getting out of the book and into the world: ways to understand action research -- Teaching and learning physics as inquiry - similarities with transformative action research -- Plans for a school-based project to involve students as teachers, learners, and colleagues of artificial intelligence -- Stories of action research from WISR learners -- Autobiographical analysis of the role of social learning in transformative action-and-inquiry.

"Transformative Inquiry Through Action Research in Practice draws on author John Bilorusky's liftetime experiences of conducting action research in real-world settings. The two volumes (this book and A Half Century of Living and Doing Transformative Inquiry Through Action Research) comprehensively lay out the principles of and examine case studies in action research. This volume examines a number of case studies and application for action research, detailing research plans and hypotheses, and what actually happens on real research projects - both things that work well and the challenges of working in a real world environment. In showcasing action research in educational, health, governmental and other settings, this book will be suitable for students coming to action research for the first time and for researchers wanting to widen their knowledge and experience of this method in practice"-- Provided by publisher.