Yoland Wadsworth
Biographic Data
| ID | 4145301 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yoland Wadsworth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yoland |
| FAMILY NAME | Wadsworth |
| SIGNATURE | WADSWORTH Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University of Technology and National Centre for Epidemiology & Population Health, Australian National University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Evaluation perspectives
Shared inquiry capabilities and differing inquiry preferences: Navigating full cycle iterations of action research
This chapter takes a fresh approach to some persistent issues facing action research as a philosophy of science by drawing on an expanded framework that integrates insights from systems thinking, psychology and sociology in a new way (Wadsworth 2011). The familiar shared range of human 'inquiry capabilities' are firstly described and identified as corresponding with the processes of living systems to achieve dynamic stability - the conditions for…
AES Fellow
Roots of action research and self-reliance thinking in Rabindranath Tagore: A Prologue
Beloved Bangladesh: A western glimpse of participatory action research and the animator-resource work of Research Initiatives Bangladesh
The paper offers a first-person experiential observational study by a newcomer to the use of research initiatives to combat poverty in two geographic regions and Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh. Drawing on participatory action research and the tradition of ‘the animateur’ (catalyst-facilitation), the work of the sponsoring local agency, Research Initiatives Bangladesh (RIB) is described as illuminating a range of quite powerful applications…
Gouldner's child: Some reflections on sociology and participatory action research
The article commences with a personal reflection on reflexive sociology's methodological emergence from the critique of scientific positivism that took place in the late 1960s and early 1970s. These 'paradigm wars' reached something of a zenith around the time of the final opus of a key proponent, Alvin Gouldner, in 1979. An uneasy truce was then reached under new conditions of growing economic rationalism. While mainstream academic sociology plu…
An Australian Perspective
The Politics of Social Research: A Social Research Strategy for the Community Health, Education and Welfare Movement
The experience of the author led to a consideration of the political nature of social policy oriented research, with a view to developing a strategy which might overcome some of the dissatisfactions experienced with traditional research approaches. Traditional approaches, largely because of their technical nature, have meant a neglect or diminution of those precise characteristics which have characterized the ‘community’ orientation among health …
Beloved Bangladesh: A western glimpse of participatory action research and the animator-resource work of Research Initiatives Bangladesh
The paper offers a first-person experiential observational study by a newcomer to the use of research initiatives to combat poverty in two geographic regions and Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh. Drawing on participatory action research and the tradition of ‘the animateur’ (catalyst-facilitation), the work of the sponsoring local agency, Research Initiatives Bangladesh (RIB) is described as illuminating a range of quite powerful applications…
Gouldner's child: Some reflections on sociology and participatory action research
The article commences with a personal reflection on reflexive sociology's methodological emergence from the critique of scientific positivism that took place in the late 1960s and early 1970s. These 'paradigm wars' reached something of a zenith around the time of the final opus of a key proponent, Alvin Gouldner, in 1979. An uneasy truce was then reached under new conditions of growing economic rationalism. While mainstream academic sociology plu…
The Politics of Social Research: A Social Research Strategy for the Community Health, Education and Welfare Movement
The experience of the author led to a consideration of the political nature of social policy oriented research, with a view to developing a strategy which might overcome some of the dissatisfactions experienced with traditional research approaches. Traditional approaches, largely because of their technical nature, have meant a neglect or diminution of those precise characteristics which have characterized the ‘community’ orientation among health …
The Politics of Social Research: A Social Research Strategy for the Community Health, Education and Welfare Movement
The experience of the author led to a consideration of the political nature of social policy oriented research, with a view to developing a strategy which might overcome some of the dissatisfactions experienced with traditional research approaches. Traditional approaches, largely because of their technical nature, have meant a neglect or diminution of those precise characteristics which have characterized the ‘community’ orientation among health …
An Australian Perspective
Beloved Bangladesh: A western glimpse of participatory action research and the animator-resource work of Research Initiatives Bangladesh
The paper offers a first-person experiential observational study by a newcomer to the use of research initiatives to combat poverty in two geographic regions and Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh. Drawing on participatory action research and the tradition of ‘the animateur’ (catalyst-facilitation), the work of the sponsoring local agency, Research Initiatives Bangladesh (RIB) is described as illuminating a range of quite powerful applications…
Gouldner's child: Some reflections on sociology and participatory action research
The article commences with a personal reflection on reflexive sociology's methodological emergence from the critique of scientific positivism that took place in the late 1960s and early 1970s. These 'paradigm wars' reached something of a zenith around the time of the final opus of a key proponent, Alvin Gouldner, in 1979. An uneasy truce was then reached under new conditions of growing economic rationalism. While mainstream academic sociology plu…
Roots of action research and self-reliance thinking in Rabindranath Tagore: A Prologue
AES Fellow
Shared inquiry capabilities and differing inquiry preferences: Navigating full cycle iterations of action research
This chapter takes a fresh approach to some persistent issues facing action research as a philosophy of science by drawing on an expanded framework that integrates insights from systems thinking, psychology and sociology in a new way (Wadsworth 2011). The familiar shared range of human 'inquiry capabilities' are firstly described and identified as corresponding with the processes of living systems to achieve dynamic stability - the conditions for…
Evaluation perspectives
Sociology (6 works) · Political science (4 works) · Action research (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Action (physics (2 works) · Action (physics) (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Engineering (2 works)