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Action Research—A Scientific Approach?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

Fred H. Blum
Fred H. Blum*
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Howard University
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The concept of action-research has been developed during the last decade, mainly at the Research Center for Group Dynamics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and at the Commission for Community Interrelations of the American Jewish Congress—centers founded by the late Kurt Lewin whose original and creative mind has made many contributions to social-psychological and sociological research. I owe my acquaintance with this new approach to the Research Center, particularly to Ronald Lippitt and Alvin Zander. Yet most of the following observations are based on my research experience during the last four years. The responsibility for what I am saying is, therefore, completely my own.

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Research Article
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 22 , Issue 1 , January 1955 , pp. 1 - 7
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Copyright © Philosophy of Science Association 1955

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