title: A researcher's self-reflection of the facilitation and evaluation of an action research project within the Swedish social and care context.
abstract: The AR's (Lewin, 1946) assumption was that human beings exist in life spaces through interaction, and communication, and that knowledge development is the result of changes in cognitive structures through communication and involvement in research processes. And further, from the construction of new knowledge gained by learning from each other, comes the presumption to change. The participation is described as "citizen power" (Arnstein, 1969), which means being included in the development process. The degree of citizen power is based on partnership, delegated power and citizen control. All these steps are positioned at the highest level when ranking participation. Partnership means engaging and negotiating with the high level decision makers. The result of delegated power is apparent when the negotiations result in achieving leading decisions that influence a particular plan or programme.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Health, Nutrition and Management, Programme for Midwifery, Oslo, Norway and the PRO-CARE Group, School of Health and Society, Kristianstad University, Kristianstad, Sweden. zada.pajalic@hkr.se.
authors.forename: Zada
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Pajalic
mesh_terms: D003256:Community Participation / Q000379:methods*; D055812:Community-Based Participatory Research / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D015397:Program Evaluation; D012108:Research Personnel; D012922:Social Change; D012946:Social Welfare