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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 September 2022
The thinking that I have laid out in this book lays down a challenge to traditional researchers, policy makers and organisational leaders. it also poses a challenge to the action research community. This is because it suggests a significant shift in emphasis:
• from consensus to parallel development
• from a focus on individual events to working with systemic interrelationships and patterns
• from linear causal attribution to understanding the dynamics of complexity
• from representativeness to resonance
• from action research as a method, to action research as a hub or container for a variety of methods
• from a focus on the formal to the informal spaces in between
• from planning to strategic improvisation.
This does not mean that consensus, individual agency, linearity, representativeness and so on are no longer relevant or important, only that they should be seen as one part of a greater whole. We need to build on them, and move beyond them in order to make sense of the complex world that we live in, and fashion flexible ways to act within it.
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