The Discursive Project and the Psychodynamic Voice

ABSTRACT

Connected knowing is a significant theme for action research. This contribution connects current understanding of discourse in action research to the frame of psychodynamic thinking. It urges researchers to consider unconscious as well as conscious processes in their analysis of the voices of research partners. It concludes that the development of action research in education might have been different if connections between the group analysis of Lewin. Trist and Bion had been maintained