I rapporti intimi, ma non del tutto chiari, tra psicologia di comunitŕ e ricerca-azione: una proposta di semplificazione
- The action-research is responsible for ambiguity: in Italian and French literature, even its own denomination varies from "action" to "intervention" in an undifferentiated manner. Wherefore we need a distinction of the action-research from the more large intervention or applied research and the recognition of its specificity on the subjects' intentional sharing of the change process involving them. At the same time, the action research should assume the validity rules valuable for every scientific research and aim to experimentation and to objective standard measuring the effects of the change process. It also arises the question of the relationship between researchers and subjects: their rules have to be differentiated as expression of different, but equal in dignity, experiences. Keywords: specificity, subjects' intentional sharing, validity, experimentation, objective standard