TY - GEN

T1 - The action researcher as a reflective partner to a core group

AU - Christensen, Dorthe

AU - Sriskandarajah, Nadarajah

N1 - Conference code: 7

PY - 2006

Y1 - 2006

N2 - The EU suggests applying bottom-up, participative learning approaches, such as Action Research, as steering instruments to meet the challenge of multifunctionality and its links with rural development. This paper focuses on the many demanding roles placed on an action researcher when working with rural stakeholders to achieve normatively desirable learning. It is suggested that in order to genuinely qualify the learning process and its outcome for all, the action researcher keeps an adequate balance between being “close to” or “inside” the stakeholder arena and “distanced to” or “outside” this arena. A model for how this balance could be achieved is proposed.

AB - The EU suggests applying bottom-up, participative learning approaches, such as Action Research, as steering instruments to meet the challenge of multifunctionality and its links with rural development. This paper focuses on the many demanding roles placed on an action researcher when working with rural stakeholders to achieve normatively desirable learning. It is suggested that in order to genuinely qualify the learning process and its outcome for all, the action researcher keeps an adequate balance between being “close to” or “inside” the stakeholder arena and “distanced to” or “outside” this arena. A model for how this balance could be achieved is proposed.

KW - Former LIFE faculty

KW - Learning, action research, multifunctionality, rural development

M3 - Article in proceedings

SN - 90-86860-02-8

SP - 35

EP - 39

BT - Changing European farming systems for a better future

A2 - Langeveld, Hans

A2 - Röling, Niels

PB - Wageningen Academic Publishers

Y2 - 7 May 2006 through 11 May 2006

ER -