The Art of Facilitating Action Research: A first-person account in policymaking

Abstract

In this book Miren Larrea leads us through the meanders of her journey with Action Research for Territorial Development. It is a strong and beautiful testimony of how action research is all about change. Action research changes organizations and relationships; it also changes us, as researchers, when we allow ourselves to become part of the process with our entire being, reason and emotions, aware of the way power and love are intertwined in the coproduction of transformative knowledge. It is not a conventional book on action research. Written in first person, Miren holds in front of us a mirror where we see reflected our relationship with action research, as researchers, community and organization leaders or public office holders. It is a generous invitation to tell our own stories. Danilo R. Streck