00575nas a2200205   4500008004100000022001400041245004400055210004100099260004200140300000800182490000600190653002000196653001500216653001800231653002700249100001800276700001800294700001900312856003800331       2019                        eng d  a1927-032100aEditorial: Action Research (April 2019)0 aEditorial Action Research April 2019  aOttawabTalent First Networkc04/2019  a3-60 v910aaction research10ainnovation10aparticipative10aparticipatory research1 aMcPhee, Chris1 aHoppe, Magnus1 aLindhult, Erik  uhttps://timreview.ca/article/122800571nas a2200205   4500008004100000022001400041245004200055210003900097260004200136300000800178490000600186653002000192653001500212653001800227653002700245100001800272700001800290700001900308856003800327       2019                        eng d  a1927-032100aEditorial: Action Research (May 2019)0 aEditorial Action Research May 2019  aOttawabTalent First Networkc05/2019  a3-50 v910aaction research10ainnovation10aparticipative10aparticipatory research1 aMcPhee, Chris1 aHoppe, Magnus1 aLindhult, Erik  uhttps://timreview.ca/article/123602206nas a2200193   4500008004100000022001400041245011200055210006900167260004200236300001000278490000600288520158200294653002001876653001601896653002701912653001601939100001901955856003801974       2019                        eng d  a1927-032100aScientific Excellence in Participatory and Action Research: Part II. Rethinking Objectivity and Reliability0 aScientific Excellence in Participatory and Action Research Part   aOttawabTalent First Networkc05/2019  a22-330 v93 aThe purpose of this article is to deal with the following question: Can the concepts of reliability and objectivity be reconceptualized and reappropriated to enable understanding of scientific excellence in participatory and action research? The article shows that it is fruitful to consider the “subjective” and active role of researchers as vital in enabling scientific objectivity and reliability. As an expansion from a replication logic, reliability can be conceptualized as adaptive, goal-seeking, dynamically regulated processes enabled by effective organization of interactive and participatory learning processes where all participants can contribute to learning and correction in inquiry. Instead of erasing subjectivity, objectivity can be enabled by critical subjectivity, intersubjectivity, practical wisdom, impartial norms of inquiry, and open democratic dialogue. Reliability and objectivity in this understanding can be enabled by participatory and action research through skilful performance of research practices such as reflective conversations between parties, dialogue conferences, experimentation, and experiential learning as part of action-research cycles, etc., which are common in participatory and action research initiatives and projects. By rethinking validity, reliability, and objectivity, recognizing the substantially more active and participatory stances enables scientific excellence, it can expand the repertoire of strategies for promoting research quality, and it helps to mainstream this type of approach in the scientific community.10aaction research10aobjectivity10aparticipatory research10areliability1 aLindhult, Erik  uhttps://timreview.ca/article/123803136nas a2200181   4500008004100000022001400041245010000055210006900155260004200224300000900266490000600275520255700281653002002838653002702858653001202885100001902897856003802916       2019                        eng d  a1927-032100aScientific Excellence in Participatory and Action Research: Part I. Rethinking Research Quality0 aScientific Excellence in Participatory and Action Research Part   aOttawabTalent First Networkc05/2019  a6-210 v93 aA core impetus of participatory and action research is making science relevant and useful for solving pressing problems and improving social conditions, and enabling stakeholders to participate in research and development processes. There are claims in the community of participatory and action research of the potential for heightened scientific excellence, but at the same time, there are critiques in the mainstream community that more engaged, even activist, stances threaten scientific norms or that position these type of research approaches outside the field of science, for example, as issues of application. In the search of clarification of the scientific identity and the specific qualities of participatory and action research, scholars have been moving away from and sometimes have rejected traditional conceptions of quality. This leads to confusion about how to relate to the discourse on research quality and scientific excellence in mainstream science. Integration in this discourse is important in order to attain academic legitimation in prevailing institutions of science, for example, in applications for funding, in seeking to publish research, and in the acceptance of dissertations based on participatory and action research. The purpose of this article is to contribute to this integration by reconstructing the way traditional quality concepts – validity, reliability, and objectivity – can be fruitfully used in expanded frameworks for quality where scientific excellence of participatory and action approaches are visible and where mainstream science approaches also can be harboured. In this conceptual article, reconstruction of understanding of scientific inquiry is first made based on a praxis-oriented epistemology inspired by pragmatism. Through rethinking truth as trustworthiness, new proposals for the conceptualization and frames for research quality and scientific excellence are introduced. Second, a framework for understanding purpose in science and its basis in validity, reliability, and the core characteristics of participatory and action research is developed. Third, the turn to action, practice, and participation enables plural ways of knowing and ways that knowledge claims can be validated and made trustworthy. The article concludes that participatory and action research offers a broader landscape of purpose and validation than more traditional approaches to science. In a subsequent article, reliability and objectivity, and their use in participatory and action research, will be clarified.10aaction research10aparticipatory research10aquality1 aLindhult, Erik  uhttps://timreview.ca/article/1237