Thanks for the educative and informative post. I agree with you on the strength of the research work on predominantly black, distressed urban community that is stricken by poverty and the intervention methodologies. In explaining action research, Hall (2006) demonstrates that Lewin (1946) developed action research theories within an intergroup framework to define problems and using social research to plan action, and then execute the actions followed by the knowledge and assessment. In addition, Hall claims that others have evolved these change experiments during the cost of time into accustomed processes that are widely used in health and social
