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- Ahlberg, Beth Maina, 1949-, et al.
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"A child, a tree" : Challenges in building collaborative relations in a community research project in a Kenyan context
- 2016
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Ingår i: Action Research. - : Sage Publications. - 1476-7503 .- 1741-2617. ; 14:3, s. 257-275
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper highlights the potential for basing participatory action research on priorities identified by communities. The case builds on a research project by the Social Science Medicine Africa Network (Soma-net) focusing on AIDS prevention among school youth in Kajiado in Kenya during 2003-2006. It became clear from that study just how complex it is to promote open communication on issues of sexuality considered critical for sexual health promotion. Towards the end of that study a spin-off in the form of a concept a child, a tree or tree planting evolved and the research thereafter continued as a partnership between the school community and the researchers. The focus then was on understanding how health promotion could be integrated into other aspects of community life. The concept and tree planting when implemented created a sense of ownership among the pupils largely because they were placed at the centre of the development activities. The story illuminates the nature of change developing in the course of the project, but also the challenges and complexity of creating and maintaining collaborative relations in the face of cultural and gender power dynamics and interventions imposed from outside the community.
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- Ekman Philips, Marianne
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Action Research and development coalitions in health care
- 2004
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Ingår i: Action Research. - London : Sage Publications. - 1476-7503 .- 1741-2617. ; 2:4, s. 349-370
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Action research within the field of work and organization has, for several decades, struggled with the problem of concentrating its efforts on a few workplaces versus distributing them on many. The Swedish programme ‘Work environment in health care’ was an effort to reach out broadly in this sector of working life, although with limited resources. The article presents and discusses an approach based on using dialogically structured encounters to support a number of local developments at the same time as an effort was made to turn these encounters into a permanent infrastructure for development.
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- Huzzard, Tony, et al.
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Constructing interorganizational collaboration The action researcher as boundary subject
- 2010
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Ingår i: Action Research. - : SAGE Publications. - 1476-7503 .- 1741-2617. ; 8:3, s. 293-314
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article aims to explore critically the role of an action research team in the social construction of interorganizational collaboration aimed at transgressing organizational and professional boundaries. We argue that the new relationships, actor conceptions and in some cases forms of work organization arising from the change process have been socially constructed through the discursive interventions of the researchers. This has largely occurred through informal interaction with and between the actors engaged in the development process. The action researcher, rather than being a neutral discursive gatekeeper in collaborative development projects, is an active constructor of the discourse shaping the collaboration. A case is presented showing how the researcher role is thus better seen as being an active boundary subject mediating across various professional and organizational perspectives rather than a passive boundary object. Accordingly, by focusing on the discursive role of active researchers as boundary subjects, we can reflect more critically on the roles we adopt in our intervention endeavours and their inevitably political nature.
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