For my work as a scholar-practitioner, I am drawn to action research, as that culture of inquiry fits with how I am in the world, and because it offers a wide variety of sources and approaches for integrating research and practice. One of the texts that struck me most is the definition of action research that Reason and Bradbury provide in the 1st edition of the Sage handbook of action research:
"A primary purpose of action research is to produce practical knowledge that is useful to people in the everyday conduct of their lives. A wider purpose of action research is to contribute, through this practical knowledge, to the increased well-being - economic, political, psychological, spiritual - of human persons and communities, and to a more equitable and sustainable relationship with the wider ecology of the planet of which we are an intrinsic part."
Sheer beauty, and beauty, as we know, is truth. ;-)
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