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The effort to address “problems of the greatest human concern” has challenged many of the traditional approaches to research and many traditional relationships between universities and communities (Kellogg Commission, 1999). It has required a movement in research away from university-based laboratory research to new ways of joining science with practice, inquiry with action, and university with community. Underlying these new approaches is the assumption that social inquiry will not be effective unless it is combined with social action, and likewise, that social action must be guided by social inquiry.
In the varied topography of professional practice, there is a high, hard ground overlooking a swamp. On the high ground, manageable problems lend themselves to solution through the application of research-based theory and technique. In the swampy lowland, messy, confusing problems defy technical solution. The irony of this situation is that the problems of the high ground tend to be relatively unimportant to individuals or society at large, however great their technical interest may be, while in the swamp lie the problems of the greatest human concern Schon, 1987, p.3).
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Walsh, M.E., Thompson, N.E., Howard, K.A., Montes, C., Garvin, T.J. (2000). Seven Years of Participant Research. In: Sherman, F.T., Torbert, W.R. (eds) Transforming Social Inquiry, Transforming Social Action. Outreach Scholarship, vol 4. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4403-6_6
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