Source

Here are a variety of resources for integral scholar-practitioners. Some of these resource lists are living documents that IRC will update periodically to reflect new scholarship. To that point, please let us know if you are aware of additional theses, dissertations, articles, books, or other works that should be included. Send your suggestions to Nick Hedlund-de Witt at nhedlund@jfku.edu.  

Primers

Integral Research: A Multi-Method Approach to Investigating Phenomena
This is the article that started it all - the first published description of integral research, which appeared in 2006 in the academic journal Constructivism in the Human Sciences.

Toward  a Comprehensive Integration of Science and Religion: A Post-Metaphysical Approach
This article is an example of how IMP can support research integrating science and religion.

An Overview of Integral Theory: An All-Inclusive Framework for the 21st Century
This primer to integral theory provides an up-to-date introduction and is an ideal piece to give to colleagues and friends who want to know "What is Integral Theory?

Integrally Reseaching Integral Research: Enactive Perspectives on the Future of the Field
This article offers a more recent overview of the field of Integral research and its evolutionary trajectory, including a number of key issues for further clarification and development.

An Ontology of Climate Change: Integral Pluralism and the Enactment of Multiple Objects

Although situated in the context of global climate change, this is article is essential reading for those interested in Integral research.  It articulates a framework of Integral Pluralism that addresses the relationship between epistemological distance (the Who), methodological variety (the How), and ontological complexity (the What), which holds far reaching implications for the field.

Glossaries

"Integral" Defined 
Given that the term “integral” is used in a variety of fields and can take on different meanings depending upon context, here are a few foundational and illuminating quotes from the works of Ken Wilber, Jean Gebser, and Sri Aurobindo, three pioneers of all things integral.

AQAL Glossary
From the Fall 2006 issue of Journal of Integral Theory and Practice, a glossary of key terms used in Integral Theory.

Graduate Work

M.A. Theses and Ph.D. Dissertations Using Integral Theory
A list of over 90 M.A. theses and Ph.D. dissertations from 1987-2009 that explicitly use or reference Integral Theory as articulated by Ken Wilber. [last updated: 5/27/2009]

Current Dissertation Projects
A list of graduate students currently using Integral Research [last updated 8/4/2008]

"Moving Toward Conscious Consumption: An Integral Inquiry into Post-consumer Attitudes and Behaviors"

An notable JFKU M.A. thesis by Bruni Howind making use of the Integral Research framework.

Academic Articles

Academic Journal Articles Using Integral Theory
A list of over 100 articles that have been published in major and minor academic journals from 1996-Present, and that explicitly use or reference Integral Theory. [last updated 5/22/2009]

Journal of Integral Theory and Practice
An linked issue-by-issue index of articles published in JITP from 2006-2010. Also, click here for an alphabetical list of JITP articles (by author).

"A Guide to Ken Wilber and the Education Literature"
An annotated bibliography compiled by R. Michael Fisher

Integral Theory Conference Award Winners

2008  

Zak Stein, Developmental Differences in the Understanding of Integral Theory: A Statement of the Problem and Description of Research Methods.
This article serves as the basis for some of the original research being conducted at JFKU on developmental learning sequences of key concepts in integral theory.

Books

Integral Books and Book Chapters
A list of books and book chapters that explicitly use or include Integral Theory. [last updated: 5/26/2009]

Books by Ken Wilber

Key Authors

The Integral Research Center is in the process of creating bibliographies of key authors. So far we have:

Susanne Cook-Greuter

Mark Edwards

Sean Esbjörn-Hargens

Elliott Ingersoll

Robert Kegan

William Torbert

Roger Walsh

Ken Wilber (link to Integral World website hosted by Frank Visser)

*See our guidelines for being listed as a key author here. 

Journal

In 2008, Journal of Integral Theory and Practice (JITP) published two special issues devoted solely to Integral Research.

Articles that appeared in Vol. 3 No. 1 issue include:

• Editorial Introduction  – Sean Esbjörn-Hargens    

• Applying AQAL to the Quantitative/Qualitative Debate in Social Sciences Research - Timothy G. Black

• Integral Ecological Research: Using IMP to Examine Animal Consciousness and Sustainability - Sean Esbjörn-Hargens

• Living for Playing, Playing for a Living: An Integral Research Study - Jordan Luftig

• On Operationalizing Aspects of Altitude: An Introduction to the Lectical™ Assessment System for Integral Researchers – Zachary Stein & Katie Heikkinen

• Towards a Vision of Integral Leadership: A Quadrivial Analysis of Eight Leadership Books - Clint Fuhs

• Integral Life Practice Inquiry: An Integral Research Approach to Personal Development – Cindy Lou Golin

• AQAL Topology: An Introduction to Integral Geography and Spatiality – Brian Eddy

Articles that appeared in Vol. 3 No. 2 include:

• Editorial Introduction – Sean Esbjörn-Hargens    

• Integrally Researching the Integral Researcher: A First-Person Exploration of Psychosophy’s Holding Space Practice – Nicholas H. Hedlund   

• Case Studies in Integral Approaches in International Development: An Integral Research Project – Gail Hochachka   

• Coding Gender: Using IMP to Construct a Content Analysis of Gender Definitions in Scientific Research – Jeff Cohen   

• An Integral Approach to the Buffett Phenomenon – Edward Kelly   

• Integral Research as a Practical Mixed-Methods Framework: Clarifying the Role of Integral Methodological Pluralism – Jeffery A. Martin

• Where’s the Method to Our Integral Madness? An Outline for an Integral Meta-Studies – Mark Edwards

In 2010, JITP published a third special issue devoted to Integral Research.  This issue, guest edited by Nick Hedlund, showcases seven original research studies.                            

Articles that appeared in Vol. 5 No. 2 include: 

• Executive Editor's Note and Guest Editor's Introduction – Sean Esbjörn-Hargens and Nicholas Hedlund   

• Integrally Researching Integral Research: Enactive Perspectives on the Future of the Field – Nicholas Hedlund   

• Toward an Integral Approach to Standardized Testing: Using the Integral Model to Improve Test Performance and Evaluate Current Testing Methodologies       – Brooks Suttle  

• An Integral Inquiry into the Relationship Between Addiction and Emotional Intelligence - Kathleen Grillo

• Music and Personal Experience: Flow and Peaks - Matthew Collins

• An Integral Exploration of Leadership - Travis Tasset

• Press Play to Grow! Designing Video Games as "Trojan Horses" to Catalyze and Integrate Human Development - Moses Silbiger

• Developmental Experiments in Individual and Collective Movement to Second Tier - Terri O'Fallon

• Integral Research: A Global Approach towards Social Science Research Leading to Social Innovation, by Ronnie Lessem and Alexander Schieffer                      -Lauren Tenney 

Book Reviews Relevant for Integral Researchers

• Integral Research and Innovation: Transforming Enterprise and Society, by Ronnie Lessem and Alexander Schieffer  -Russ Volckmann

• Integral Research: A Global Approach towards Social Science Research Leading to Social Innovation, by Ronnie Lessem and Alexander Schieffer                      -Lauren Tenney