An epistemological critique of action research

Abstract

Part Two investigates claims of action research authors Grundy, Carr anrl Kemn1s ln respect of their clalm that actlon research is a democratic form of research. I state this claim and draw attention to the primacy, for it, of the idea of "participation". I then show that for action research participation is Iinked with views about language and the generation of knowledge and investigate these authors' concept of language to the extent that it relates to a theory of persons. Following l4arx, I argue that human beings are beings of "praxis", participants in Lhe construction of a materi-al aS weII as a social world a