I rapporti intimi, ma non del tutto chiari, tra psicologia di comunità e ricerca-azione: una proposta di semplificazione

The intimate, but ambiguous, relations between Community Psychology and actionresearch: a simplifying suggestion - The action-research is responsible for ambiguity: in Italian and French literature, even its own denomination varies from "action" to "intervention" in an undifferentiated manner. Wherefore we need a distinction of the action-research from the more large intervention or applied research and the recognition of its specificity on the subjects’ intentional sharing of the change process involving them. At the same time, the action research should assume the validity rules valuable for every scientific research and aim to experimentation and to objective standard measuring the effects of the change process. It also arises the question of the relationship between researchers and subjects: their rules have to be differentiated as expression of different, but equal in dignity, experiences. Keywords: specificity, subjects’ intentional sharing, validity, experimentation, objective standard;

Francesco Paolo Colucci, I rapporti intimi, ma non del tutto chiari, tra psicologia di comunità e ricerca-azione: una proposta di semplificazione in "PSICOLOGIA DI COMUNITA’" 2/2008, pp 79-86, DOI: 10.3280/PSC2008-002010