(1,286KB)Part I: Beginning
Chapter One: Setting the territory
What is my thesis about?
How I came to do inquiry
YoWiM - an overview
'In-powering spaces'
Thesis structure
Closing Chapter One: Finding 'my question' after I've 'finished'
Submitted by
Kate Louise McArdle
For the degree of PhD
2004
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Acknowledgements. - (1,286KB)
Part I: Beginning
Chapter One: Setting the territory
What is my thesis about?
How I came to do inquiry
YoWiM - an overview
'In-powering spaces'
Thesis structure
Closing Chapter One: Finding 'my question' after I've 'finished'
Chapter Two: Getting started - (233KB)
Getting angry
Voice, silence and safety
Summary
Chapter Three: Does method exist? - (311KB)
Action research
First-, second- and third-person research practice
Co-operative inquiry
Co-operative inquiry - key aspects of the method
Summary
Part 11: Key learnings from the YoWiM inquiry group
Chapter Four: The importance of beginning - (270KB)
Owning the beginning
Setting the scene
Choice = commitment
Some people won't like it: and that's fine
Summary
Chapter Five: Voice - enabling the silence to be heard - (515KB)
Why voice mattered
(Re)appearing acts
Noticing I'm silenced
Naming as knowing
Getting visible
Aftershock
Summary
Chapter Six: What is third-person inquiry? - (445KB)
Why I don't know what third person inquiry is
The issue of scale
The development of my ideas on third-person inquiry
Large scale (third-person?) inquiry
Summary
Chapter Seven: My facilitative practice - (395KB)
Wadsworth on facilitation
Wadsworth's six key facilitation capabilities
Thoughts on facilitation in co-operative inquiry
Chapter Eight: The importance of 'endin - (2,344KB)
Why writing this Chapter matters
Ideas that shaped the closing of YoWiM
What matters when we plan for endings
How we ended
Stories from sculpture: Ending presentationally
Part 111: Living my inqulrlng life - (200KB)
Chapter Nine: Passion
Was YoWiM an in-powering space?
Becoming visible
Bibliography- (146KB)
Appendix One- (218KB)
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