ERIC Number: EJ1027942
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2014
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The Action Researcher as Tempered Radical and Strategic Entrepreneur in Higher Education: A Personal Reflection
Pearce, Alison
Educational Action Research, v22 n2 p178-195 2014
This article describes the discovery of action research by a "conscious incompetent" in higher education. The influences on the development of an action researcher's individual philosophy are discussed. These shape a specific investigation into the implementation of international staff exchange in a post-1992 UK university from the position of an "outsider within", a tempered radical. Ontological and epistemological concepts of quasi-objectivity, subjectivity, participation and commitment are discussed in relation to entrepreneurship in the higher education context, concluding that action research is a methodology suitable for tempered radicals and strategic entrepreneurs and that the action researcher can play these roles to research the execution of international faculty mobility in higher education.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Action Research, Higher Education, Faculty Mobility, Researchers, College Faculty, Entrepreneurship, Global Approach, International Relations, Journalism, Bias, Story Telling, Epistemology, Philosophy
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: France; United Kingdom
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