SCHOLARLY DIALOGS AND PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH

This paper addresses two issues that are pertinent to the papers in th e special issue on Participatory Action Research. The first is the con ceptual contributions of the papers. The more explicit these contribut ions the more dialogue they enable with researchers beyond the action research tradition. The second is the extent to which intervention par ticipants have a say in the scholarly presentations of the interventio ns. The greater the scholarly dialogue between action researchers and participants the more complete the description of the interventions.