Co-Operative Inquiry

John Heron founded the Human Potential Research Group at the University of Surrey, and later pioneered personal and professional development programs for doctors, as Assistant Director, British Postgraduate Medical Federation, University of London. He now runs the South Pacific Centre for Human Inquiry, New Zealand.

• IntroductionResearch Method and ParticipationOverview of Co-operative InquiryInitiating an Inquiry GroupStages of the Inquiry CycleInquiry OutcomesRadical Memory and Inquiry SkillsValidity ProceduresValidity and BeyondA Postconceptual WorldviewArguments for Co-operative Inquiry

`This text is a quality addition to the literature of qualitative research and postmodern forms of inquiry....Researchers struggling with some of the more esoteric aspects of this orientation will find the clarity of the text and the balance of theoretical and practical content especially refreshing′ - Management Learning′For those of us engaged in facilitating and researching our experiential groupwork with people, Co-operative Inquiry, is an essential sourcebook....The arguments for using co-operative inquiry are compelling and Heron covers the philosophical and methodological ground skilfully′ - Peter Ridge, ELAN Newsletter`In my view Heron has succeeded not only in decisively undermining the philosophical foundations of much of what currently passes as "social scientific" research, but he has carefully and exhaustively articulated a research approach which is not only epistemologically mature, human(e)istic and empowering, but which offers a "hopeful" antidote to the mechanistic and soul-less malaise that typifies so much current scientific research.... Co-Operative Inquiry is enormously relevant to the counselling field, not least in terms of research procedure and what Heron calls "being-values". It is one of the most challenging and potentially transformative books to appear in recent years′ - Counselling, The Journal of The British Association for Counselling