ABSTRACT
Shared knowledge production is fraught with tensions related to multivocality and othering processes. This chapter offers a critical, reflexive approach to analyzing and tackling dilemmas resulting from tensions in an action research project with people with intellectual disabilities, care workers and managers at a residential home. The theoretical framework is inspired by social constructionist ideas and draws on Bakhtin's approach to dialogue and Foucault's perspective on power/knowledge relations. Following this theoretical line, it is explored how tensions were present in the care workers’ facilitation of workshops, in the communication of participants’ voices in other parts of the organization and in the organization's ongoing work with workshops as a method. Following this line, it is suggested that use of a critical, reflexive analytical strategy can strengthen the practical validity of co-produced knowledge in action research by raising awareness of the tensions in play in emergent power relations.
