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15 SES 08, Paper Session
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In this paper we will reflect on profession based research as a research practice that holds a practical turn towards research and development. We are occupied with research conducted round professions or vocations within schools and preschools. These institutions demands new kinds of production of development-oriented knowledge in line with modern western needs for study and practical knowledge building (Gibbons et. al. 1994). This paper will discuss how we can meet these needs through joint research projects in which professionels, educators and researchers are participating in common production of knowledge inspired by action research (Reason and Bradbury 2001; Toulmin and Gustavsen 1996; Svensson and Nielsen 2006). One of the grounding values of action research is that knowledge is created most productively and under the best conditions when people expected to use the knowledge is participating in producing the knowledge. In an international setting this orientation or way of thinking is framed as a participatory worldview (Elliott, 1995; Reason & Bradbury 2001, Brydon-Miller et al 2003). This notion is about framing the research process as cooperation with and in the field. The ambition is to perform research in ways that privilege different types of knowledge within knowledge production and research processes. The participatory worldview mandates action researchers to consider participants as a collaborative resource and agents of cyclical transformation who bring to the table practical knowledge and experience about situations while the recurring pattern of reflection, analysis and action contributes to the constant evolution and redefinition of the original goal.
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