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Community Work Research through Co-Operative Inquiry in Timor-Leste, Australia and Peru: Insights into Process

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  • Naomi Joy Godden

    (Monash University)

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Co-operative inquiry is an under-explored method in community-based research. Its democratic approach involves a group of “co-researchers” collaboratively inquiring into a mutually-agreed research topic through systematic cycles of reflection and action. This article shares the process, outcomes, and methodological reflections of three co-operative inquiries that were conducted as part of an international study regarding love in community work. Groups of up to 10 community workers in rural villages in Timor-Leste, Australia, and Peru engaged in co-operative inquiry to collaboratively develop new knowledge to inform practice. The article analyses data regarding co-inquirer experiences of the methodology, and identifies the strengths and challenges of the co-operative inquiry method to support the collective generation of new knowledge. The article concludes that co-operative inquiry involves shared power, participation, action, and contextual reflexivity, and is a useful method for community workers to collaboratively develop innovative approaches to community work practice through cycles of reflection and action.

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  • Naomi Joy Godden, 2018. "Community Work Research through Co-Operative Inquiry in Timor-Leste, Australia and Peru: Insights into Process," Systemic Practice and Action Research, Springer, vol. 31(1), pages 55-73, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:syspar:v:31:y:2018:i:1:d:10.1007_s11213-017-9420-0
    DOI: 10.1007/s11213-017-9420-0
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