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Throughout this book I have forwarded suggestions for those involved in research endeavors to responsibly take into consideration the immersion of the research in the "becoming" of social and ecological existence (of which it is a part). I now suggest that when researchers post facto generate methodological stories around how the design of the research became ongoingly accomplished, these responsibilities should be foregrounded, with ethical considerations concerning the exercise of responsibility and co-responsibility included in the storying. Instead of focusing on trying to label research work with respect to designs as given in the (much cited) literature on strategies of inquiry, I propose that the doing, and writing up, of research should become differently geared. That is, we should pay attention to practices of active involvement with others (as selves-in-relation) in trying to exercise (co)-responsibility for the future-forming potential of research. I suggest that to highlight the quality of such activity, the word "active" can preface the labels commonly used to characterise research designs.

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-74386-8_10

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