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7 Quality Choicepoints for ART: Improving action research transformations
In this action-video-snippet, Hilary Bradbury introduces the 7 quality checkpoints for good Action Research transformations (ART). While hardly comprehensive we hope the overview is useful as a way to assess and develop your own action research too. Perhaps you’re considering writing up your work for publication? Then know that we use these quality choicepoints to […]
Read More...Action/Practice Research in China
In this special issue, we called for articles on social work action/practice research from Greater China, i.e., Chinese societies located in the different parts of the world. Unexpectedly, all the articles we received originate from the Chinese mainland. While offering a limited vantage, nevertheless, the selected articles offer and reveal, the efforts of Chinese social […]
Read More...RAIR Experimenting with New Ways of Being in Relationship
Lara Catone, co-steward in the upcoming AR+ Relational Action Inquiry RAIR co-lab writes with an invitation. “In times of great uncertainty such as these, find myself resourcing through acknowledgement of the gift that I have been awakened out of complacency. In these moments of grace the noise drops away and I am deeply connected with […]
Read More...PAR social change in Santiago, Chile. Welcome to Dr. Lake Sagaris.
Dr. Lake Sagaris co-leads a social change lab in Santiago Chile – Laboratorio de Cambio Social, cambiarnos.cl. PAR – Participative Action Research – is at the heart of their work to build collaboration between university and urban community. The lab’s action research projects emphasize civic culture, mobility and sustainable urban development. Recently Lake’s lab joined our AR+ community as a stewarding organization. We share a recent […]
Read More...AR+ is Top 10 Transformation Initiative
There are thousands – and counting – of transformation initiatives around the world. Each in their way contributing to a transformation mission at this time of escalating eco-social crisis. Australian Integral Design, led by Susanna Carman, studies these efforts. They are driven by researchers, educators, coaches and mentors, and by entrepreneurs, social innovators and regular […]
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