Social Experimentation as Reflection-in-A ction

1 September 1984

journal article
Published by SAGE Publications in Knowledge

Vol. 6 (1) , 5-36
https://doi.org/10.1177/107554708400600101

Abstract

We present the results of our review of some forty community-level interventions undertaken in the developing world over the past twenty years m order to reduce malnourishment in children. We argue that such interventions, if they are considered as social experiments, cannot be assimilated to models of quasi-experimental method. We propose an alternative model of experimentation, which we call "reflection-in-action", which seems to us better suited to account for the kinds ofvahdity and rigor attainable in situations such as these.

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