Knowledge as Social Praxis: A Review of Selener's (1997) Participatory Action Research and Social Change

Abstract

I was very pleased to be invited to review Daniel Selener’s book, having met him and discussed his project—albeit briefly—at Cornell University and later at the World Congress in Participatory Action Research at Cartagena, Colombia in 1997. And having also spent my professional life working to establish collaborative forms of action research from a different (but I thought sympathetic) ideological base from Selener’s (Reason, 1994b; Reason, forthcoming-b), I was keen to see what he had made of this exploration of action research in different traditions and in different contexts.