The Distinctive Questions Developmental Action Inquiry Asks
- 1 June 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Management Learning
- Vol. 30 (2) , 189-206
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1350507699302006
Abstract
Developmental Action Inquiry askes three types of questions together in one’s actions with others, with the normative aim of improving the timelines and transformational effectiveness of action. The three questions concern the first-person dynamics of one’s own awareness, the second-person dynamics of the immediate group with whom one is interacting, and the third-person dynamics of the larger institutions within which one’s action is situated. The article outlines the type of theory and practice that supports and reflects such inquiry, and highlights how different such integrated ‘research/practice’ is from empirical positivism.Keywords
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