But let us not forget John Collier
Commentary on David Bargal’s ‘Personal and intellectual influences leading to Lewin’s paradigm on action research’
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6134323 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eric H Neilsen (0000-0002-7357-0317, Case Western Reserve University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 389-399 |
| Publication date | 2006-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Action Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1476-7503 • E-ISSN: 1741-2617 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1476750306070102 |
| OpenAlex | W2087146149 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 7 |
We propose that John Collier was integrally involved in the development of action research and deserves to be recognized as a cofounder of the field. We offer a brief biography of Collier, review the roots of his approach to action research, and then compare Lewin’s principles of action research as articulated by Bargal with excerpts from an article Collier wrote in 1945, a year before Lewin’s first writing on the subject. We conclude with a discussion of why Lewin did not give Collier more credit, even though the two were close friends. We hypothesize that Lewin’s version of action research was more science oriented, while Collier’s was more exclusively focused on democratic collaboration in the treatment of important social issues
Action (physics · Action research · Biography · Democracy · Field (mathematics · Library science · Pedagogy · Political science · Sociology · Subject (documents · Community Health and Development · Evaluation and Performance Assessment · Law · Participatory Visual Research Methods
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Personal and intellectual influences leading to Lewin’s paradigm of action research
John Collier's Crusade for Indian Reform, 1920-1954
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| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,22 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2017 (10) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |