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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One of my favorite characteristics of Action Researchers is that we consider different ways of knowing. As P. Reasons states so well, “research practitioners to take into account many different forms of knowing— knowledge of our purposes as well of our ideas, knowledge that is based in intuition as well as the senses, knowledge expressed […]
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This week I had attended the 22nd Annual Ethnographic & Qualitative Research Conference, which is why my post is a few days late. The conference has me reflecting on many areas of research and publication such as generalizabilty, limitations, and the intersection of theory and research. I definitely have my wheels turning about future research […]
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