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Research As Daily Practice

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Encyclopedia of Couple and Family Therapy

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Name of Theory

Research As Daily Practice

Synonyms

Everyday practice; Practice-based research; Reflection in practice

Introduction

Research As Daily Practice is a term used to describe an innovative and efficient way of appreciating the contributions of practitioners to the development of new knowledge while simultaneously facilitating effective practice. We see the activities of daily or everyday practice* as research, casting practitioners in the role of researchers. This is different from applying research results into practice – it is about acknowledging that the actions practitioners undertake when they “do” practice can be understood as research itself.

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Sally St. George, Dan Wulff, Karl Tomm.

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Through Research As Daily Practice, we trouble the customary distinction between research and practice by not making a distinction between research and practice. Recent professional discourse in many helping professions has been focused on creating...

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Sally St. George & Dan Wulff

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  1. Sally St. George
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  2. Dan Wulff
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Correspondence to Sally St. George .

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. The Family Institute at Northwestern, Evanston, Illinois, USA

    Jay Lebow

  2. The Family Institute at Northwestern, Evanston, Illinois, USA

    Anthony Chambers

  3. The Family Institute at Northwestern, Evanston, Illinois, USA

    Douglas C. Breunlin

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  1. PositivaMente & Grupo Campos Elíseos, Juan Salvador Agraz 40-612, Mexico City, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico

    Margarita Tarragona Ph.D.

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St. George, S., Wulff, D. (2017). Research As Daily Practice. In: Lebow, J., Chambers, A., Breunlin, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Couple and Family Therapy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15877-8_890-1

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