Human Inquiry for Living Systems
Building in Research and Evaluation for Life
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publishing:22nd Apr '26
£39.99
This title is due to be published on 22nd April, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
If we don't have the kinds of health and human services or even the kinds of lives, communities and organisations we want, then we need to think differently. Yoland Wadsworth offers an inspired insight and radically new proposition: that the act of our 'inquiring', of researching and evaluating together, is the way by which every living organism and all collective human life goes about continuously achieving the conditions for life.
Human Inquiry for Living Systems explores this new approach for bringing about both wanted change and stability. By inquiring around 'whole cycles' of acting, observing, questioning, feeling, reflecting, thinking, planning and acting again, Yoland identifies how new life might be brought to what we do.
All three of Yoland Wadsworth's best-selling books have been brought together in this Routledge trilogy to offer for the first time a coherent body of work addressing the pressing needs of people to 'inquire their way' to the future.
‘… this work is unquestionably original and in major ways innovative.’
Raewyn Connell, International Sociological Association's quadrennial awardee for Excellence in Research and Practice
‘Yoland Wadsworth displays an extraordinary capacity to integrate many different perspectives, theories, constructs and approaches within an overarching accessible framework. … Sound and persuasive, insightful, important and inviting. A great contribution’
Michael Quinn Patton, Author of Utilization-Focused Evaluation
‘... the value of work at this level is paradigmatic’
Peter Reason Emeritus, Editor, Action Research Journal
‘Highly original. . . Credible and useful. Grounded in pioneering empirical research.’
Danny Burns, Professor of Organisational Learning
‘Brilliant ... I’m not aware of any other book of this nature. The examples are impressive.’
Linette Hawkins, Social Work Educator
‘An integrative book by a grandmaster of the field is a treasure.’
David Coghlan, Trinity College Dublin
ISBN: 9781032440521
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 453g
362 pages
2nd edition