Wagner D
Department of Social Work, University of Southern Maine, Portland 04103.
Soc Work. 1991 Nov;36(6):477-82.
Action research, a model combining research with activist goals and microlevel and macrolevel social work practice, has received little recent attention in the social work literature. This article reports on an action research project conducted by a major labor union and a university department of social work to assist dislocated workers in New England. A partnership of union-trained peer counselors and social work faculty and students combined a research study with providing direct service to displaced workers, assisting in an organizing project, and developing a policy agenda to assist low-income workers. The author suggests that an action research model can be used by social workers in a wide variety of settings and under different practice auspices.
行动研究是一种将研究与积极行动目标以及微观和宏观层面的社会工作实践相结合的模式，最近在社会工作文献中很少受到关注。本文报道了一个由一个主要工会和一所大学社会工作系开展的行动研究项目，旨在帮助新英格兰地区的下岗工人。由工会培训的同伴辅导员与社会工作教师和学生组成的合作团队将一项研究与为下岗工人提供直接服务、协助一个组织项目以及制定帮助低收入工人的政策议程结合起来。作者认为，社会工作者可以在各种各样的环境中以及在不同的实践背景下使用行动研究模式。
