Co-Operative Inquiry: Research into the Human Condition - Softcover

Heron, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803976844 ISBN 13: 9780803976849

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 1996

Synopsis

This is the first book to provide a comprehensive account of co-operative inquiry: a way of doing research with people where the roles of researcher and subject are integrated.

Co-operative inquiry is a distinctive and wide-ranging form of participative research in which people use the full range of their sensibilities to inquire together into any aspect of the human condition. This book offers both an extensive exploration of its theoretical background and a detailed practical guide to the methods involved. Topics covered include: a critique of established research techniques; the underlying participative paradigm of co-operative inquiry; the epistemological and political aspects of participation; different types of co-operative inquiry and the range of inquiry topics; ways of setting up inquiry groups and enabling their development; four kinds of inquiry outcome and the primacy of the practical; the main stages of the inquiry cycle, highlighting key issues for practice at each stage; and special skills and procedures used for enhancing validity.

About this title

About the Author

John Heron founded the Human Potential Research Group at the University of Surrey, and later pioneered personal and professional development programs for doctors, as Assistant Director, British Postgraduate Medical Federation, University of London. He now runs the South Pacific Centre for Human Inquiry, New Zealand.

From the Back Cover

This book offers both an extensive exploration of the theoretical background to co-operative inquiry and a detailed practical guide to the methods involved.

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0803976844
• ISBN 13: 9780803976849
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240