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Jacob Levi Moreno, Kurt Lewin, and John Collier developed distinct research approaches that involved the participants in a new and more active role. They arrived at these concepts through different routes that will be traced in the following. An attempt will be made to determine the origins of the term “Action Research,” and the contributions of the three researchers to the Action Research Tradition will be underlined.
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See Adams interviewed by Marrow, specifically the creation of the term “valence,” which translated the German “Aufforderungscharacter” and quickly became adopted by Tolman as a replacement for his concept of “demand value” and later even translated back to German as “Valenz” (Marrow, 1969, pp. 56–57).
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