Critical evaluation of appreciative inquiry: Bridging an apparent paradox

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Critical evaluation of appreciative inquiry: Bridging an apparent paradox

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University of Waikato

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Despite increased applications and scholarship, appreciative inquiry remains a research method with little self-reflection or critique to evaluate the process as an action research method. Perhaps counter-intuitively, we propose that critical theory provides one useful lens through which to develop an appreciative evaluation of the process. We begin this article with a brief introduction to appreciative inquiry (Ai) as it is presented in the literature. Calls for evaluation of the process are...

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Research paper

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Journal article

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2006

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https://hdl.handle.net/10289/1854

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appreciative inquiry / critical theory / emancipation / transformation

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