Cases and Stories of Transformative Action Research

John A. Bilorusky (PhD, University of California, Berkeley) is co-founder of the Western Institute for Social Research in Berkeley. For 45 years, as a faculty member there, he has guided hundreds of student action research theses, dissertations, and projects, and consulted with dozens of community agencies and colleges on action research.

Transformative Inquiry Through Action Research in Practice draws on author John Bilorusky's liftetime experiences of conducting action research in real-world settings. The two volumes comprehensively lay out the principles of and examine case studies in action research.

1. Introduction; Part I. Applications 2. Program Evaluations 3. Uses of Action research in Community Organizations 4. Community-Based Think Tanks 5. Toward Expert Knowledge and Human Development: The Curriculum of the "Experimenting Community" 6. Using Transformative Action-Inquiry during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Critiquing Studies and Facing Decision-Making Dilemmas; Part II. Illustrations 7. Intellectual Activism and Action research: A Case Study on Workplace Bullying 8. Multifaceted, Comprehensive Action-Oriented Research Aimed at Preserving and Restoring the Omaha Culture 9. Stories, Concepts and Methods of Participatory Action Research: Transforming Individuals and Groups 10. Getting Out of the Book and into the World: Ways to Understand Action Research 11. Teaching and Learning Physics as Inquiry: Similarities with Transformative Action Research 12. Plans for a School-Based Project to Involve Students as Teachers, Learners and Colleagues of Artificial Intelligence 13. Stories of Action research from WISR Learners 14. Autobiographical Analysis of the Role of Social Learning in Transformative Action-and-Inquiry