# Introduction

Throughout the sessions, this course has encouraged you to consider an appreciative approach to inquiry, not as a linear progression, a step-by-step process, but as a messy, creative, improvisational process. So, although you are now reading Session 5, which is about re-immersing ourselves in our new realities once actions have been taken, you may well have found that actions, ideas or practices have already started to change as a result of your inquiry. In this way, evaluation doesn’t only happen at the end, we don’t suddenly emerge into a new practice, but we ‘live’ with and through our inquiry projects as they develop.

This session acts as a ‘bringing together’ of the threads of this course, sometimes revisiting ideas and activities anew from this slightly different perspective, and sometimes providing framings that you may find useful if you are in the middle of a project or if you are further on.

By the end of this session, you should be able to:

- understand the notion of action within inquiry as praxis, where it is embodied, contingent, improvised, and messily entangled with our ‘lived experiences’ as educators
- embed ongoing reflection-in-action and collective evaluation throughout inquiry as a process of mapping emerging opportunities for further inquiry
- tell stories of appreciative inquiry in ways that are engaging, clear and meaningful to others, including colleagues, institutional leaders or other stakeholders.

The session will start by considering the relationship between you and your developing views of inquiry.

OpenLearn - An appreciative approach to inquiry
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