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An academics attempt to use action-oriented research: Case study of implementing award restructuring in two WA universities
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An academics attempt to use action-oriented research: Case study of implementing award restructuring in two WA universities

J. Currie
Australian Association for Research in Education
1993 AARE Conference (Fremantle, Western Australia, 22/11/1993–25/11/1993)
1993
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This paper explores how two universities in Western Australia are implementing Award Restructuring. In the process it examines how universities can be studied by a person actively involved in trying to change the current structures. One aim of the research is to try to involve women academics more actively in this process of change through the union movement. And more generally to develop more participatory processes within universities for all academics. One of the aims of award restructuring is to develop greater industrial democracy. This paper will describe the reaction of academics and university administrators to the term `industrial democracy' and the extent to which this may be achieved in Western Australian universities. Further, it will examine how using a combination of action research and case study methods the research can plot the kind of change that is occurring within a rapidly changing environment. This paper is about research in progress which is in its third and final year of funding. It will develop a more action oriented phase in 1994 and this paper will attempt to reflect upon the form that research should take.

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