TY - JOUR AU - Salo, Petri AU - Rönnerman, Karin PY - 2023/03/13 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Educational Action Research for Being JF - Nordic Studies in Education JA - nse VL - 43 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - 10.23865/nse.v43.3985 UR - https://noredstudies.org/index.php/nse/article/view/3985 SP - 78–93 AB - <p style="font-weight: 400;">The article describes the characteristics of educational action research on the basis of its development in three Nordic countries, namely Sweden, Norway and Finland. The characterisation begins with a reflection on the Anglo-Saxon variants of action research within education. Thereafter follows a democratic and participatory conceptualisation of action research identified through a description of its formation within working life practices. This conceptualisation is traced back and interpreted in terms of <em>bildning</em>, collective pedagogical practices within <em>folkbildning</em> and in relation to <em>pedagogik</em> as a basis for teachers’ professional knowledge base. The characteristics of educational action research are encapsulated as action research for being.</p> ER -