...position became untenable and the programme collapsed. INTRODUCTION As Rapoport puts it, "Action research aims to contribute both to the practical concerns...collaboration within a mutually acceptable ethical framework" (Rapoport, 1970). Assuming that scientific advances depend on failures as well as successes, this case...

...aim of contributing to a developmental process. The definition we use is as follows: "Action research aims to contribute both to the practical concerns...collaboration within a mutually acceptable ethical framework" (Rapoport, 1970). The term was used before World War II in two contexts, in anthropology and in social...

...method. Rapoport's ( 1 970) definition is that it aims to 'contribute both to the practical concerns ot people in an immediate problematic situation and to...social science by joint collaboration within a mutually accepted ethical framework' (cited in D. Hopkins, 1984). According to Cohen and Manion (1981, p. 49),...

...circulated to all participants for authentication. The research process and the evaluation report aimed to 'contribute both to the practical concerns of people...collaboration within a mutually acceptable ethical framework' (Rappaport, 1970). The Branston Scheme in Action — Teachers as Experts: Teachers as Researchers In...

...the context of this research I used the following definition of action research: [Action research] aims to contribute both to the practical concerns...collaboration within a mutually acceptable ethical framework. (Rapoport, l970, p.499) I believed that this approach was ethically necessary in working with people...

...own problems co-operatively. (Hodgkinson 1957, cited in Cohen and Manion 1994: 190) Action research aims to contribute both to the practical concerns...collaboration within a mutually acceptable ethical framework. (Rapoport 1970: 499) Action research is a small-scale intervention in the functioning of the real world...

...(p. 137). Perhaps the most frequently quoted definition of AR is Rapoport's (1970): "Action research aims to contribute both to the practical concerns...collaboration within a mutually acceptable ethical framework" (p. 499). Inherent in both of these widely cited definitions is the tension between making a contribution...

...However, Rapoport has framed probably the most commonly used definition of such research: Action research aims to contribute both to the practical concerns...collaboration within a mutually acceptable ethical framework. (1970: 449) 1 emphasizes the importance of both scientific contributions and the solving of practical,...

...of change strategies. The reciprocal nature of action research is that it aims to contribute to both the practical concerns of people in an immediate problematic...collaboration within a mutually acceptable ethical framework (Rapaport. 1970, p499). For occupational stress research this means to help the organisation understand...

...definition first put forward by Rapoport (1970) for action research as being the ability to ... contribute to the practical concerns of people in an immediate...goals of social science by joint collaboration within mutually acceptable ethical framework. He then goes on to add that action research is ... a type of...