Co-Operative Inquiry

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Orthodox scientific approaches to research honour participation neither as a way of knowing nor as a political system. They use a divisive epistemology that separates the knower from the known, and an authoritarian political system in which researchers make all decisions about content, methodology and findings so that their subjects are treated as passive objects of observation. Since scientific research is such a powerful force in our lives it is shocking that its techniques largely ignore the epistemological and political significance of participation. Co-operative inquiry is one of several methodologies which emphasize participation (Reason, 1988; Reason, 1994a; Reason and Rowan, 1981a). Feminist research asserts the need for research to honour women's experience and explore it from the inside, often by the adoption of ...

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