Olav Eikeland
Biographic Data
| ID | 4144971 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Olav Eikeland |
| GIVEN NAMES | Olav |
| FAMILY NAME | Eikeland |
| SIGNATURE | EIKELAND O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Work Research Institute, Oslo |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Why Should Mainstream Social Researchers Be Interested in Action Research
The essay tries to argue why conventional researchers are obliged as researchers to be interested in certain forms of action research. The 60 years of ignorance have been illegitimate. The essay starts by listing two commonly encountered arguments paraphrasing Karl Marx and Francis Bacon via Kurt Lewin. It tries to show why a certain simplified reading of Marx cannot provide the necessary arguments. It then presents different variants of action r…
Are action researchers mixed up? Reviewing and revising basic assumptions, concepts, and terminology in and by means of action research
The article explores and discusses whether we as action researchers are undermining or subverting our own intuitions and intentions, or at least not doing justice to it, when mixing a) learning and exploration through individual and collective action and reflection, with b) elements from conventional research methods. The article’s basic question: Can the intentions and results from a) be reduced to and validated fully or partly through b) conven…
Tribute to Danilo Streck
Bibliography: Eikeland, Olav/Ennals, Richard/Fricke, Werner/Larrea, Miren/Palshaugen, Øyvind/Sobottka, Emil Albert: Tribute to Danilo Streck, IJAR – International Journal of Action Research, 1-2022, pp. 6-7. https://doi.org/10.3224/ijar.v18i1.02
(Why) Does Ar Need to Intervene and Change Things
One of the basic and for many, defining tenets of action research is contained in the “slogan” ascribed to Kurt Lewin: “In order to understand it, you have to change it”. The slogan clearly resembles what Francis Bacon claimed for experimental science, however, and also Karl Marx’ well known stance in his Feuerbach-theses. In this text I discuss this “change imperative” and relate it to its “pre-history” before action research. Most action resear…
Aksjonsforskning i Norge: Teoretisk og empirisk mangfold
Antologien Aksjonsforskning i Norge. Teoretisk og empirisk mangfold består av tjue vitenskapelige artikler innen utdanning, helse, vitensentre, kunst og arbeidsliv. Antologien gir et innblikk i historisk utvikling, grunnlagstenkning, samt teoretiske og metodologiske diskusjoner innen aksjonsforskningsfeltet. Den tar opp spørsmål om deltakelse, erfaringskunnskap og dialog som grunnlag for kunnskapsutvikling. Boka spenner over temaer som profesjons…
Praxis retrieving the roots of action research
Conclusion: Strategies for addressing ethical concerns in action research
Condescending ethics and action research: Extended review article
The article outlines ethical aspects of action research at two different levels: philosophical and ‘applied’. It also emphasizes ethical aspects of practitioner research and conventional social research tacitly implied in the relations between researchers and researched presupposed by the two approaches. Conventional research ethics is insufficient for grasping these aspects, since it is constituted within the relations assumed by conventional re…
Condescending ethics and action research: Extended review article
The article outlines ethical aspects of action research at two different levels: philosophical and ‘applied’. It also emphasizes ethical aspects of practitioner research and conventional social research tacitly implied in the relations between researchers and researched presupposed by the two approaches. Conventional research ethics is insufficient for grasping these aspects, since it is constituted within the relations assumed by conventional re…
Conclusion: Strategies for addressing ethical concerns in action research
Why Should Mainstream Social Researchers Be Interested in Action Research
The essay tries to argue why conventional researchers are obliged as researchers to be interested in certain forms of action research. The 60 years of ignorance have been illegitimate. The essay starts by listing two commonly encountered arguments paraphrasing Karl Marx and Francis Bacon via Kurt Lewin. It tries to show why a certain simplified reading of Marx cannot provide the necessary arguments. It then presents different variants of action r…
(Why) Does Ar Need to Intervene and Change Things
One of the basic and for many, defining tenets of action research is contained in the “slogan” ascribed to Kurt Lewin: “In order to understand it, you have to change it”. The slogan clearly resembles what Francis Bacon claimed for experimental science, however, and also Karl Marx’ well known stance in his Feuerbach-theses. In this text I discuss this “change imperative” and relate it to its “pre-history” before action research. Most action resear…
Conclusion: Strategies for addressing ethical concerns in action research
Condescending ethics and action research: Extended review article
The article outlines ethical aspects of action research at two different levels: philosophical and ‘applied’. It also emphasizes ethical aspects of practitioner research and conventional social research tacitly implied in the relations between researchers and researched presupposed by the two approaches. Conventional research ethics is insufficient for grasping these aspects, since it is constituted within the relations assumed by conventional re…
Praxis retrieving the roots of action research
Aksjonsforskning i Norge: Teoretisk og empirisk mangfold
Antologien Aksjonsforskning i Norge. Teoretisk og empirisk mangfold består av tjue vitenskapelige artikler innen utdanning, helse, vitensentre, kunst og arbeidsliv. Antologien gir et innblikk i historisk utvikling, grunnlagstenkning, samt teoretiske og metodologiske diskusjoner innen aksjonsforskningsfeltet. Den tar opp spørsmål om deltakelse, erfaringskunnskap og dialog som grunnlag for kunnskapsutvikling. Boka spenner over temaer som profesjons…
(Why) Does Ar Need to Intervene and Change Things
One of the basic and for many, defining tenets of action research is contained in the “slogan” ascribed to Kurt Lewin: “In order to understand it, you have to change it”. The slogan clearly resembles what Francis Bacon claimed for experimental science, however, and also Karl Marx’ well known stance in his Feuerbach-theses. In this text I discuss this “change imperative” and relate it to its “pre-history” before action research. Most action resear…
Are action researchers mixed up? Reviewing and revising basic assumptions, concepts, and terminology in and by means of action research
The article explores and discusses whether we as action researchers are undermining or subverting our own intuitions and intentions, or at least not doing justice to it, when mixing a) learning and exploration through individual and collective action and reflection, with b) elements from conventional research methods. The article’s basic question: Can the intentions and results from a) be reduced to and validated fully or partly through b) conven…
Tribute to Danilo Streck
Bibliography: Eikeland, Olav/Ennals, Richard/Fricke, Werner/Larrea, Miren/Palshaugen, Øyvind/Sobottka, Emil Albert: Tribute to Danilo Streck, IJAR – International Journal of Action Research, 1-2022, pp. 6-7. https://doi.org/10.3224/ijar.v18i1.02
Why Should Mainstream Social Researchers Be Interested in Action Research
The essay tries to argue why conventional researchers are obliged as researchers to be interested in certain forms of action research. The 60 years of ignorance have been illegitimate. The essay starts by listing two commonly encountered arguments paraphrasing Karl Marx and Francis Bacon via Kurt Lewin. It tries to show why a certain simplified reading of Marx cannot provide the necessary arguments. It then presents different variants of action r…
Action research (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Pedagogy (4 works) · Action (physics (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Physics (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Engineering (2 works)