Bücher von Davydd J. Greenwood

The Action Learning and Action Research Journal (ALARj) contains substantial articles, project reports, information about activities, creative works from the Action Learning and Action Research field, reflections on seminars and conferences, short articles related to the theory and practice of Action Learning, Action Research and process management, and reviews of recent publications.In this special issue, PhD students discuss their action research journeys, while their supervisor and leading AR doyens present details of the journey to bring action research to the University of Melbourne.

Public universities are in crisis, waning in their role as central institutions within democratic societies. Denunciations are abundant, but analyses of the causes and proposals to re-create public universities are not. Based on extensive experience with Action Research-based organizational change in universities and private sector organizations, Levin and Greenwood analyze the wreckage created by neoliberal academic administrators and policymakers. The authors argue that public universities must be democratically organized to perform their educational and societal functions. The book closes by laying out Action Research processes that can transform public universities back into institutions that promote academic freedom, integrity, and democracy.

Focuses on how it is possible to combine practical problem solving with generating new theoretical insights. The authors combine a thorough discussion of the epistemological foundations of action research with a broad overview of major contemporary trends in the field.

The institutional problems within both the farm families and the local municipality are described along with the Basque ideas about the dignity of work to help explain why such successful maximisers of economic gain should ultimately reject economic rewards in favour of other values.