Note Reason's typology excludes most TD board game cells 1-4 & 6-14.

• Reason, Peter Knowledge as Social Praxis: A Review of Selener's (1997) Participatory Action Research and Social Change M@n@gement, Vol. 1, n. 1, 1998 (press here).
• The typology
  •  1. Cooperative Inquiry (Reason & Heron)
  • 2. Participative Action Research (Fals-Borda & Rahman) 
  • 3. Action Science/ Action Inquiry (Argyris; Torbert) 

• Layperson's Guide (press here). Brief History (press here).
• A short guide to co-operative inquiry Peter Reason and John Heron (press here).
• Heron's one page of CI (press here).
• Bulleted definition of CI (press here).
• Academic Intro to CI (press here). Issues of poststructuralist epistemology (press here).
• How CI is different from AI/AS and Appreciative Inquiry (below) - (press here). Here it is a constructivist not a poststructuralist epistemology?

Participative Action Research (Fals-Borda & Rahman)

• Note in the Reason Review Max Elden is marginalized - (press here) for home page.
• Chisholm, Rupert F., and Elden Max (1993) Features of emerging action research. Human Relations, 46(2), 275-298. A follow-up to Elden and Chisholm (1993). In summing up the conclusions drawn from articles in a special issue of Human Relations, the authors identify five main dimensions to action research: 1: system level of client system; 2: degree of organisation of research setting; 3: degree of openness of research process; 4: goals and purpose of research; 5: role of researchers.
• An Overview of the Methodological Approach of Action Research by Rory O'Brien Date: April 17, 1998 (press here) a good paper with review of epistemologies and history. - Includes Elden and other PAR people.
• See PAR-Network (press here).
• PAR-N Archive of great PAR studies (press here)
• Action Research Reference List (press here).

Action Science/ Action Inquiry (Argyris; Torbert)

1. ACTION INQUIRY Torbert (home page)

• Action inquiry is about discovering actions in real-time personal and professional settings that alert, attune, and sometimes even align self, immediate others, organizational strategies, and global vision - and that encourage non-violent personal, organizational, and societal transformations - (Press here) For paper on Transformation to Learning Organization.

1. ACTION SCIENCE - Chris Argyris (For Bibliography press here).

• Good Overview Module (press here). Another (press here).
• Influence of Dewey and Lewin (press here).
• Conference with some Double Loop appraoches (press here). Bridging Systems to Life October 24-27th, 1999.