What would apophatic Action Research look like? Learning to consider delicatematters of silence and wonder in professional practices
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12949627 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Finn Thorbjørn Hansen (0000-0002-2252-2059, Aalborg University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 100-115 |
| Publication date | 2022-10-18 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | IJAR – International Journal of Action Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1861-1303 • E-ISSN: 1861-9916 |
| Publisher | Verlag Barbara Budrich GmbH (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3224/ijar.v18i2.02 |
| OpenAlex | W4306696450 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 23 |
Inspired by an ‘apophatic turn’ in theology, philosophy and art, and with insights from existential phenomenology, the article encourages us to step back as actors in order to let life or the phenomenon itself act upon us. This kind of apophatic thinking is not so far away from the thinking of the Norwegian philosopher Olav Eikeland when he describes “Insider and Praxis Action Research”. And yet, the apophatic potentials in his way of understanding action research are here elaborated by pointing to three dimensions: the Knowledge-, Being- and Mystery dimensions in a praxis, and to the four ways of seeing praxis from within both a “gnoseology” and an “agnoselogy”. The latter being led by a deep sense of wonder followed by what Daoist’s call Wu Wei or “effortless actions”
Action (physics · Aesthetics · Epistemology · Existentialism · Insider · Phenomenology (philosophy · Phenomenon · Praxis · Silence · Sociology · Wonder · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Innovative Education and Learning Practices · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Philosophy
The reflective practitioner
On What Cannot Be Said
The Concept of Irony, with Continual Reference to Socrates
Revisiting Donald Schön’s notion of reflective practice
What Could Be More Intelligible Than Everyday Intelligibility? Reinterpreting Division I of Being and Time in the Light of Division II
Praxis retrieving the roots of action research
Praise of Theory
Condescending ethics and action research
The Unsayable in Arts-Based Research
| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |