Systemic Inquiry. Innovations in Reflexive Practice Research

Approaches to research for politically attuned and relationally reflexive practitioners. How do we get alongside people in a disenfranchised world and find out their truths, out truths and collaborate to make the world a better, safer place? Internationally acclaimed contributors propose innovative research methodologies which promote sensitivity, creativity and political awareness to use everyday practice as powerful and transformative research practices.

The chapters offer practical and theoretical help in forging connections between relationally sensitive practice, reflexive inquiry and the wider field of post-positivist qualitative inquiry. Reflexivity weaves systemic social constructionist, collaborative dialogical and narrative practices in the fields of therapy, consultation, teaching, supervision, leadership, organisational development, community work and activism.

CONTENTS

Mary Gergen - Foreword

Part 1 – Systemic Methodology

•  Gail Simon - Systemic Inquiry as a form of Qualitative Inquiry
•  Alex Chard - Orientations: Systemic Approaches to Researching Practice

•  Harlene Anderson - Collaborative-Dialogue Based Research as Everyday Practice: Questioning our Myths
•  Sheila McNamee - Research as Relational Practice. Exploring Modes of Inquiry
•  John Shotter - Methods for Practitioners in Inquiring into “the Stuff” of Everyday Life and its Continuous Co-Emergent Development

Part 2 – Innovations in Systemic Inquiry

•  Vikki Reynolds - A Solidarity Approach: The Rhizome & Messy Inquiry
•  Saliha Bava - Performative Practices, Performative Relationships - in and as Emergent Research
•  Jacob Storch & Karina Solsø - Reporting from inside the emerging process of becoming research consultants
•  Lisen Kebbe – Writing Essays as Dialogical Inquiry
•  Kevin Barge, Carsten Hornstrup & Rebecca Gill - Conversational Reflexivity and Researching Practice
•  Ann-Margreth Olsson - The Impact of Dialogical Participatory Action Research (DPAR). Riding in the peloton of dialogical collaboration
•  Andreas Juhl - Pragmatic inquiry as a research method for knowledge creation in organisations
•  Christine Oliver - Using Coordinated Management of Meaning to Define Systemic Reflexivity as a Research Position
•  Sally St George & Dan Wulff - Research as Daily Practice