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Action Research and Service Learning as Longitudinal Approaches to Poverty Eradication, Economic Development, and Human Development is a paper originally prepared for International Action Research Conference in 2007 by Warner P. Woodworth, Ph.D and Peter Jay Sorenson CMC® and is copyright of the authors. The paper is reproduced here with their permission.
| Cover page | Introduction | Third World Poverty & Attempted Solutions | From Academic Idea to Working NGO | Action Research Roles & Tools | What We Are Learning | Conclusion | Bibliography and References |
Section 14 - Bibliography & References
Global Poverty:
Clinton, Bill. 2007. The Clinton Global Initiative. Accessed at http://www.clintonglobalinitiative.org
de Soto, Hernando, The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else, Basic Books, New York, 2000.
Gates, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. 2007. Accessed at http://www.gatesfoundation.org/GlobalDevelopment
ONE. 2006. Bono and the “ONE Campaign to Make Poverty History.” Accessed at http://www.one.org/news/194html
Reality of Aid. 2006. Report: Facts and Figures. Accessed at http://www.realityofaid.org/roareport.php?table=roa2006&id=1
Sachs, Jeffery D. 2005. The End of Poverty. New York, NY: Penguin.
U.N. Millennium Project. 2006. Fast Facts: The Faces of Poverty. Accessed at http://www.unmillenniumproject.org/resources/fastfacts_e.htm
Yunus, Muhammad. 2003. Banker to the Poor. New York, NY: Public Affairs/Perseus Book Group.
Action Research, Action Learning, and Service Learning:
Argyris, Chris and Donald A. Schön. 1991. “PAR and Action Science Compared” in William Foote White, editor, Participative Action Research, Sage Publications, Inc., Newbury Park, California, Pages 86 & 87. (ISBN 0-8039-3743-1)
Bion, B. R. 1948. Psychiatry at a time of crisis. British Journal of Medical Psychology, 21, 81-89.
Coch, L., & French, J.R.P. 1948. Overcoming resistance to change. Human Relations, 1, 512-532.
Elden, M., & Chisholm, R. F. 1993. Emerging varieties of action research: Introduction to the special issue. Human Relations, 46, 121-142.
“Emerging Developments in Action Research,” Special Issue. 1993. Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, A Publication of the NTL Institute, Volume 29, Number 4, (December), Sage Periodicals Press, Thousand Oaks, California.
Kemmis, S. and McTaggart, R. 1988. The Action Research Planner, Geelong, Victoria: Deakin University Press.
Lewin, K. 1946. Action research and minority problems. Journal of Social Issues, 2, 34-46.
Lewin, K. 1948. Resolving social conflicts: selected papers on group dynamics. Gertrude W. Lewin (ed.). New York: Harper & Row, 1948.
Marrow, A.J. 1969. The practical theorist: The life and work of Kurt Lewin. New York: Basic Books.
Rapoport, R.N. 1970. Three dilemmas of action research. Human Relations, 23, 499-513.
Sanford, N. 1970. Whatever happened to action research? Journal of Social Issues, 26, 3-23.
Shepard, H. A. 1960. An action research model. In An action research program for organization improvement (in Esso Standard Oil Company)(pp. 31-35). Ann Arbor, MI: Foundation for Research on Human Behavior.
Thorsrud, E. 1981. “Policy-making as a learning process in working life,” pp. 313-326 in B. Gardell and G. Johanson (eds.) Working Life. London: John Wiley.
Trist, E. L., & Bamforth, K. W. 1951. Some social and psychological consequences of the longwall method of coal-getting. Human Relations, 4, 3-38.
Trist, E. 1981. The Evolution of Socio-Technical Systems: A Conceptual Framework and an Action Research Program. Toronto: Ontario Ministry of Labour, Ontario Quality of Working Life Centre.
Von Bertalanffy, L. 1950. The theory of open systems in physics and biology. Science, 111, 23-29.
Von Bertalanffy, L. 1968. General systems theory. New York: George Brazilier.
Walton, R. E. 1975. “The diffusion of new work structures: explaining why success didn’t take.” Organizational Dynamics (Winter).
Walton, R. E. [with C. Allen and M. Gaffney]. 1987. Innovating to Compete: Lessons for Diffusing and Managing Change in the Workplace. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Walton, Richard E. and Michael E. Gaffney. 1991. “Merchant Shipping Case, “ in William Foote White, editor, Participative Action Research, Sage Publications, Inc., Newbury Park, California, , Pages 102. (ISBN 0-8039-3743-1)
Weisbord, M. R. 1976. Organizational diagnosis: Six places to look for trouble with or without a theory, Group & Organizational Studies, 1, 430-447.
Whyte, William Foote, “Introduction” in William Foote White, editor. 1991. Participative Action Research, Sage Publications, Inc., Newbury Park, California, pages 11 & 12. (ISBN 0-8039-3743-1
White, William Foote, Greenwood, D. J., & Lazes, P. 1991. Participatory action research: Through practice to science in social research. In William Foote White, editor, Participative Action Research, Sage Publications, Inc., Newbury Park, California, 1991, pages 19-55. (ISBN 0-8039-3743-1)
After Action Review & Huddling:
Dixon, Nancy. 2000. Common Knowledge: How Companies Thrive by Sharing What They Know, Harvard Business School Press, Boston.
Merrill, V. Dallas. 1979. Huddling: The Informal Way to Management Success, American Management Association.
Action Research Journals:
International Journal of Action Research (Rainer Hemp Vela)(http://www.hampp-verlag.de/hampp_IJoAR.htm)
Action Research (Sage Publications)(http://arj.sagepub.com/)
References on Indoor Air Pollution and Stoves:
- Wikopedia on Lorena Stoves
- MIT’s Amy Smith – Engineering in the Developing World – Cooking Fuels, New Technologies, & Micro-Finance
- Practical Action: Indoor Air Pollution
* The authors express appreciation to former students and collaborators, who over the years have helped to design and manage HELP International, the NGO described in this paper. We specifically mention Jennifer Boehme Kumar and Lisa Jones Christensen who were in the founding group of HELP and serve as Executive Director and Board of Directors Member as of this writing. Also, Warner Woodworth is the Chairman of the HELP Board of Directors and Pete Sorenson is a member of the Board.
The Authors:
Warner P. Woodworth, Ph.D., Professor
778 Tanner Building
Marriott School of Management
Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, 84602, USA
Website: http://marriottschool.byu.edu/emp/WPW/index.cfm
Peter Jay Sorenson CMC®, Organization Design Consultant
GINKGO Enterprises
P.O. Box 610245
Dallas, Texas, 75261-0245, USA.
Website: http://www.ginkgo.to/
