Transforming Social Practice: An Action Science Perspective

Action science is designed to help people reflect on and improve social practices that shape inquiry, choice and action. It is based on an epistemology of practice as reflecting-in-action and has developed largely within the framework of the theory of action approach. A case example is used to illustrate how action might be redesigned in the moment and to suggest the causal factors that prevent people from acting more effectively. In action science we seek to alter these causal factors by engaging people in reflecting on dilemmas and inconsistencies in their logic of action.