Dusty Columbia Embury
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Dusty Columbia Embury
Reflections on an insightful, yet challenging, quantitative observation method
Think about action research for a minute. Can you name action research studies that have drawn upon quantitative methods? Personally, I can’t name more than one or two. In fact, although several specialized handbooks suggest that action research is not reserved to qualitative researchers, the use of quantitative methods is limited, and reflections on this […]
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Partner development praxis: The use of transformative communication spaces in a community-academic participatory action research effort in a Mexican ethnic enclave in Chicago
“It’s about changing the way we DO public health” explained a community partner in describing the Little Village Participatory Community Health Assessment (LVCHA). “This IS public health” offered a student partner using a well known slogan from the American Public Health Association to broaden what we think is public health and name non-traditional activities. The LVCHA […]
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Public facility design for sustainability: Participatory action research on household recycling in Hong Kong
While many researchers have pointed out that public design can increase users’ sustainable practices, how to achieve good public designs is challenging. To explore the current public design barriers and solutions to household recycling in Hong Kong, our research group, in collaboration with two Caritas Community Centres, adopted participatory action research, including questionnaires, interviews, nonparticipant […]
Read More...The promise and challenge of online action research: Notes from a study of self-motivated online music learner
“Teaching and learning through Online Educational Resources is growing, yet too little is known about the cognitive and affective processes of those learners who remain until project completion versus those who drop out; but your discussion of the challenges related to using an online action research methodology offer us wonderful insight into the field of […]
Read More...Unearthing local forms of child protection: Positive deviance and abduction in Ethiopia
The upcoming special issue of the Action Research Journal titled “Aid, Development, and Social Transformation” investigates how action research – if more broadly adopted by change agents, communities, funders, and policy makers – can contribute to tackling some of the globes most intractable, complex problems. Ashley Lackovich-Van Gorp’s “Unearthing local forms of child protection: Positive […]
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