Co-Stewards: Dana Carman, Hilary Bradbury and Alain Gauthier are convening an online co-lab to support developmental leadership in response to our eco-social crises. We start in February. Our dilemma: Why, in the face of so much evidence, do we not act in our own best interests and respond to the climate crisis? Why does Greta Thunberg remain so unusual? […]
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Holiday Greetings – AR+ Foundation Board At AR+ we encourage scholarly-practice in the transformative space between our “inner and outer worlds.” We raise consciousness about participative scholarship and promote its role in moving our society toward sustainability. AR+ supports community, content and curriculum as we seek to support a next generation of Action Researchers for […]
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Blog post by Rich Ledet In Boots on the Ground State-Building: Using Action Research to Improve Local Governance in Afghanistan,” we describe how Action Research was used to achieve empowerment and more effective local governance in southern Afghanistan during Operation Enduring Freedom. This article allows us to further explain some of our earlier remarks about […]
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Blogpost by Sarah Donnelly and Sarah Morton Consider the analogy of a butterfly inside its cocoon. When we see a butterfly struggling, we are tempted to peel the cocoon off to free the butterfly so that it can fly away. But what happens to a butterfly when it does not have the necessary struggle to free […]
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Blog post by Miren Larrea We face the common challenge of letting the next generations have a planet where they can live, and the Action Research Journal has decided to focus on transformations as the concept that can guide us through this endeavour. If you are grappling with your role in action research for transformations, […]
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