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We have introduced elsewhere (Taket and White, 2000), a framework that we have developed, called PANDA (participatory appraisal of needs and development of action), which we use as we plan and implement group working and group decision-making in the multi-agency setting. We devel-oped PANDA in the process of critically reflecting on our own practice and that of others. Much of our own practice (both individually and together) has been in the field of community operational research. Underlying PANDA are a number of theoretical principles, which we label pragmatic pluralism. PANDA is based on a theoretical stance that we unashamedly label post-structuralist or postmodernist (Taket and White, 1993), and as such, makes no grand claims for being uniquely justifiable, or for devel-oped success in application. PANDA represents one particular type of multimethodology.
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Taket, A., White, L. (2004). Playing with PANDA: The CybOrg and the Rhizome. In: Midgley, G., Ochoa-Arias, A. (eds) Community Operational Research. Contemporary Systems Thinking. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8911-6_11
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