An Unexpected Detour from Ivory Tower to Action Research

In Charlotte Wegener, Ninna Meier & Elina Maslo (eds.), Cultivating Creativity in Methodology and Research: In Praise of Detours. Springer Verlag. pp. 71-77 (2017)
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Changing one’s research path mid-career is humbling. I took an unexpected detour from ivory tower to action research. In this chapter I tell how the evolution occurred, how it was shaped by my personal life, and the three lessons I learned: being humbled by starting from scratch, gaining a new level of respect for practice, and living in the “space between” academia and practice, facing the need to satisfy multiple stakeholders, each of whom requires something different from you.

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