Dusty Columbia Embury
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Dusty Columbia Embury
Fifty Shades of Research
Students in Mary Brydon-Miller‘s Ethics class created this thought provoking video (click the link to see it!) while trialing GoAnimate! After considering their question at the end of the video, let’s talk about your ideas for a response at the forum! Click here. Another thing to consider: Understanding that sharing our action research is a […]
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Challenging power dynamics between service providers and service users via Personal Budgets
Blog post by Graham R. Williamson Previous research points to the importance of supporting mental-health service users to help them improve their self managing capabilities. Thus, their capacity to manage the physical, emotional and social impacts of illness in everyday life is strengthened. From such a perspective, Personal Budgets are a key empowering philosophy, the […]
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Building knowledge democracy from the university: a case study in Spain
blog post by Emilio Lucio-Villegas The main aim of this article is to describe a singular experience in the University of Seville, Spain which connects universities and communities. It is a descriptive paper which strives to explore the work done to break the gap between universities and people in communities. This work starts from Freire’s […]
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To be seen or not to be seen: Photovoice, queer and trans youth, and the dilemma of representation
Blog post by Alix Holtby Photovoice is an emerging research method that asks people who typically have stories told about them to get behind the lens and show the world their own point of view. While this method is lauded as empowering for participants, in our study we found that “being seen” is a complicated […]
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Learning to overcome epistemological challenges: A case of a cross-cultural action research exchange program between the United States and Japan
Blog post by Noriyuki Inoue Cross-cultural experiences can offer unique opportunities to examine our assumptions that underlie our world views. So what can we learn from cross-cultural changes in AR? At the University of San Diego, I have been organizing an action research cross-cultural exchange program with Japanese partners in the last few years. This paper […]
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