Dusty Columbia Embury
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The challenges of innovation for sustainable agriculture and rural development: integrating local actions into European policies with the Reflective Learning Methodology
Blog post by Heidrun Moschitz Innovation is no longer the linear transfer of new ideas and technology from science via education and extension to farmers. Instead, agricultural producers are seen as important actors in the innovation system, in which different actors jointly produce new techniques and organisational forms in Learning and Innovation Networks. Our paper in […]
Read More...A Conversation with SAGE Encyclopedia of Action Research Editor David Coghlan
A Conversation with SAGE Encyclopedia of Action Research Editor David Coghlan Click link above to see David’s video. See below for transcript. Encyclopedia of Action Research Presented by: David Coghlan I’m David Coghlan, and I’m from Dublin and I teach at Trinity College Dublin, and I work in the area of action research and published […]
Read More...The Big Picture
Take a camera in your hand. Zoom in and you can pick out the detailed pattern in the petal of a flower or record the arches in a tiny shell lying on the beach. Zoom out and you see the way in which a newly plowed field opens up across the countryside or the play of waves […]
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Going Large-Scale: The Polling Conference Process for Participatory Constitution-making in Turkey
Blog post by Oguz N. Baburoglu In this paper, we tell the story of large-scale, nation-wide intervention for participatory constitution-making in Turkey. We believe that action researchers, deliberative democrats and civil society leaders who wish to mobilize participation in deliberative political processes on a large scale will find our story inspiring. Non-elected bodies had drafted […]
Read More...From experience to action in recovery-oriented mental health practice: A first person inquiry
Blog post by Susan Kidd Relationships in health are formed in the context of our shared humanity and the social world. Consumer participation assists in building understanding of the social world in which care is provided. Broad consumer participation is a fundamental prerequisite for the further development of recovery oriented mental health services. Ideally consumers […]
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