The action researcher as tempered radical and strategic entrepreneur in higher education: a personal reflection |
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Authors: | Alison Pearce |
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Institution: | 1. Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UKalison.pearce@unn.ac.uk |
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Abstract: | This article describes the discovery of action research by a ‘conscious incompetent’ in higher education. The influences on the development of an action researcher’s individual philosophy are discussed. These shape a specific investigation into the implementation of international staff exchange in a post-1992 UK university from the position of an ‘outsider within’, a tempered radical. Ontological and epistemological concepts of quasi-objectivity, subjectivity, participation and commitment are discussed in relation to entrepreneurship in the higher education context, concluding that action research is a methodology suitable for tempered radicals and strategic entrepreneurs and that the action researcher can play these roles to research the execution of international faculty mobility in higher education. |
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Keywords: | action research strategic entrepreneurship tempered radicalism higher education international mobility |
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