(University of the Western cape, 1991) Small, R.J; Morrow, W.E
Part Two investigates claims of action research authors Grundy,
Carr anrl Kemn1s ln respect of their clalm that actlon research
is a democratic form of research. I state this claim and draw
attention to the primacy, for it, of the idea of "participation".
I then show that for action research participation is
Iinked with views about language and the generation of knowledge
and investigate these authors' concept of language to the
extent that it relates to a theory of persons. Following l4arx,
I argue that human beings are beings of "praxis", participants
in Lhe construction of a materi-al aS weII as a social world a