Aristotle, Phronesis, Research Ethics and AR posted by Mary Brydon-Miller
“Ethical reasoning requires a different form of intellectual engagement than that of scientific analysis.” (McKee & Porter, 2008. 724) Ethical reasoning, these authors suggest, requires instead “what Aristotle calls phronesis, or the art of practical judgment.” My own introduction to this concept and its relationship to the theory and practice of action research comes from […]
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Action Research and vulnerable populations
This week I have asked action researcher, Dr. Christy Borders, to introduce an action research study she and Dr. Suzanne Ehrlich are working on together. Dr. Borders is an Assistant Professor in Special Education (Deaf/Hard of Hearing) at Illinois State University. If you have questions or comments, please feel free to post a comment here. […]
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Listening, Facilitating, and Conversing with Freire in mind – Alan Wight
As a newcomer to the study of education, I have only recently been introduced to P. Freire (1970). I love his ideas, suggested methods, and hope in education as a vehicle for positive-equitable social change. I have decided to work Freire’s dialogical approach into a course I am teaching call Spaceship Earth: Theory and Practice. […]
Read More...ARJ Editor in Chief, Hilary Bradbury Huang, reporting, ahem, finally, for blog duty …
Is it time?…yes it is!…it’s time to pop my head up and grant public expression to the awe and gratitude I feel for what the team at the Action Research Center at UCinn have launched with this ARJ Journal blog. When the board members of ARJ first talked about a blog we had no idea what […]
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Getting the Word Out, posted by Mary Brydon-Miller
Writing in the conclusion to the Special Issue on Ethics and Action Research, Davydd Greenwood, Olav Eikeland and I suggested that we “develop strategies for making the results of research of direct benefit to community” and “develop innovative strategies for disseminating the results of our work”. But the hiring committees and reappointment, promotion, and tenure […]
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