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Peter Reason and Hilary Bradbury (2006) began the introduction to the second edition of their groundbreaking Handbook of Action Research with a broad overview of the volume’s contents and a framing of action research as “inquiry and participation in search of a world worthy of human aspiration” (p. 1). The framing suggests that they were observing an emerging participatory worldview (p. 7) that validated the worthiness of action research as an inquiry process for making change in our world. Today, human aspirations are challenged in ways that go beyond even the contexts of nine years ago. This International Handbook of Action Research critically examines the challenges of the present moment as well as the potential of action research to bolster a move away from the hegemonic globalization project now being enacted in the name of a free-market capitalism that, left unfettered, threatens democracy itself (Chang, 2008; Rodrik, 2011).

The original version of this chapter was revised. An erratum to this chapter can be found at DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-40523-4_50.

An erratum to this chapter can be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-40523-4_50

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  1. School of Leadership and Education Sciences, University of San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA

    Lonnie L. Rowell

  2. School of Education, Trent University, Peterborough, ON, Canada

    Catherine D. Bruce

  3. Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA, USA

    Joseph M. Shosh

  4. The Center for Collaborative Action Research, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Margaret M. Riel

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    Lonnie L. Rowell

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    Catherine D. Bruce

  3. Education Department, Moravian College, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA

    Joseph M. Shosh

  4. Center for Collaborative Action Research, Pepperdine University, Los Angeles, California, USA

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Rowell, L.L., Bruce, C.D., Shosh, J.M., Riel, M.M. (2017). Introduction. In: Rowell, L., Bruce, C., Shosh, J., Riel, M. (eds) The Palgrave International Handbook of Action Research. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-40523-4_1

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