“What makes our work fundamental to the revitalization of social research more generally lies in its orientation towards taking action, its reflexivity, the significance of its impacts and that it evolves from partnership and participation” (underline added for emphasis). – Hillary Bradbury Huang, ARJ Blog This past weekend I walked the well worn paths of […]
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The editorial board of the SAGE Action Research Journal (http://arj.sagepub.com) has teamed up with colleagues at the Action Research Center at the University of Cincinnati to develop the ARJ Community Blog. Our purpose is to both connect journal readers to the issues and from there to encourage new concerns and directions to emerge. The ARJ […]
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Hi All…University of Cincinnati had its doctoral hooding ceremony today and a few of us that are part of the ARJ blog graduated (Deb, Vicki, Dusty, and Valerie). It was a wonderful occasion to celebrate Action Researchers accomplishments. It is possible to do an action research dissertation and graduate! Though there are some challenges within the academic […]
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In a meeting with a student today to discuss her comprehensive exam, I said that I had a new standard question I would ask every student to address. That question is to describe your ethical stance and to discuss how your proposed research embodies that position. But how do we help students to articulate their […]
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A group of Chinese students from Xi’an Jiaotong University visited UC a couple of months ago and got a chance to be introduced to action research by Dr. Mary Brydon-Miller. Their reaction was ‘Oh, this is action research’. Apparently, it is a new term for them, but not a completely strange land they have […]
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