Sunday, August 17, 2008

the right course!

Just came across the following in the Introduction chapter of the Handbook of Action Research (Reason and Bradbury, 2008) - one of my course texts.
...the primary purpose of action research is not to produce academic theories based on action; nor is it to produce theories about action; nor is it to produce theoretical or empirical knowledge that can be applied in action; it is to liberate the human body, mind and spirit in the search for a better, freer world.
If this is to be the spirit of the course, then I think I might have chosen the right one. But shouldn't this be the goal of all 'education'?

Peace yaars!

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