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First Person Action Research – the Doctoral Journey
by Vicki Stieha Reading Valerie’s post this week brings me back to a project that she and I undertook with a group of other doctoral students began almost a year ago. (1) At that time, eight of us drafted a book chapter exploring AR from a student perspective. Our work surfaced many of the same […]
Read More...Who Are We Working For? – Alan Wight
Like Valerie Louis, I find myself in a reflective state – not because of graduating, but because today marks the beginning of another round of professional education as I begin course work for a Ph. D. Also like Deb Dole, I have recently been questioning the power of community participation to lead to social action […]
Read More...Reflection – Valerie Louis
In my post last week I wrote about graduation.  And now I find myself in a place of not-knowing.  I have no idea what is next.  Some days I stress and other days I go with the flow.  Today I looked at this not-knowing time as the time in action research that is exciting, engaging, and yes…unnerving. […]
Read More...Alphabet Soup, Community Health and Capacity Building – Deb Dole
AR, PAR, PR, CBPR, CBR – The letters and words we use to describe the process and practice of participation and action sometimes appear as a secret language code created by and for the select and privileged. The parrallel threads of action and participation cross at multiple points along the contimuum of engaged scholarship that […]
Read More...In it for the Long Haul – Mary Brydon-Miller
This past week my son, Rhys, spent the evening at a Kentuckians for the Commonwealth (KFTC) meeting discussing efforts to stop the development of a new coal ash dump in my hometown of Louisville, Kentucky. When I first learned of the Appalachian Land Ownership Study in the 1980’s I had no idea that I would […]
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