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Preface, Table of Contents, Authors

Part One: Designing a Science of Human Action
1. Philosophical and Methodological Issues
2. Action Science: Promoting Learning for Action and Change
3. Theories of Action

Part Two: Practices, Methods, and Results of Normal Science and Action Science
4. Beyond the Limitations of Normal Science: Comparing Laboratory Experiments and Action Experiments
5. Organizational Assessment Research: Filling in Gaps that Normal Science Overlooks
6. The Ethnographic Approach to Intervention and Fundamental Change, by Dianne Argyris
7. The Social Scientist as Practitioner: Barriers to Translating Scientific Knowledge into Practical Knowledge
8. Practicing Action Science: Methods of Inquiry and Intervention

Part Three: Developing Skills for Useful Research and Effective Intervention
9. Engaging the Learning Process
10. Promoting Reflection and Experimentation
11. Expanding and Deepening the Learning
12. Developing New Frames of Reference

References
Index

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