Facilitating Practitioner Research: Developing transformational partnerships addresses the complex dilemmas and issues that arise in practitioner inquiry. It recognises that facilitating practitioner research is far more than providing advice about method adoption, important as that contribution is; or even modelling research practices and drawing attention to appropriate resources and theories. It also requires the evolution of strong reciprocal partnerships that will contribute to professional knowledge formation in both the academy and the field.
When such engagement is undertaken then matters associated with authentic -praxis development- for field based and academic practitioners emerge. The authors explore:
- how praxis, as practice that can always be judged in terms of -what is- and -what ought to be-, can be analysed in terms of functional and substantive rationality as well as life, world and system issues.
- how a transformative
