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Appreciative Inquiry (AI) is a qualitative research method that was first introduced in 1987 by David Cooperrider and Suresh Srivastva at Case Western Reserve University. They described AI as a complement to conventional forms of action research that is intended for discovery, understanding and fostering innovation in social-organizational arrangements (Cooperrider and Srivastva, Woodman and Pasmore (eds), Research in Organizational Change And Development, JAI Press, 1987).
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Introductory Youtube (3:45 min): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzW22wwh1J4
Introductory Youtube (3:38 min): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lX3nlMVWj9o
David Cooperrider and AI (3:53 min): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JDfr6KGV-k
A Skeptics Guide to AI (13:16 min): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfUm-6K1DRA
The AI Commons is a fulsome source for Appreciative Inquiry resources: https://appreciativeinquiry.champlain.edu/
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Walker, K.D. (2023). Appreciative Inquiry. In: Okoko, J.M., Tunison, S., Walker, K.D. (eds) Varieties of Qualitative Research Methods. Springer Texts in Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04394-9_5
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