The action researcher as a reflective partner to a core group
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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.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Changing European farming systems for a better future : new visions for rural areas |
Editors | Hans Langeveld, Niels Röling |
Number of pages | 5 |
Publisher | Wageningen Academic Publishers |
Publication date | 2006 |
Pages | 35-39 |
ISBN (Print) | 90-86860-02-8 |
Publication status | Published - 2006 |
Event | The European International Farming Systems Association (IFSA) Symposium - Wageningen, Netherlands Duration: 7 May 2006 → 11 May 2006 Conference number: 7 |
Conference
Conference | The European International Farming Systems Association (IFSA) Symposium |
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Nummer | 7 |
Land | Netherlands |
By | Wageningen |
Periode | 07/05/2006 → 11/05/2006 |
- Former LIFE faculty - Learning, action research, multifunctionality, rural development
Research areas
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