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From power struggle to benevolent authority and empathic limit setting: Creating inclusive school practice with excluded students through action research

Empathic limit setting” is an effective innovative “relational” alternative to punishment with the toughest kids – developed with and by teachers through participative action research. It’s a great example of building actionable theory from practice, a valuable read for teachers, or anyone, working with risk/excluded young people.” Children who are excluded, for whatever reason, experience […]

Cooperating with head hands hearts: Dialogue with Anne Winther

Anne Winther is a transdisciplinary researcher, writer and community activist who is co-creating community transformations and new approaches to sustainability. We talked about Anne’s involvement with a new cooperative university, related to her work with the the Centre for Human Ecology based in Glasgow, Scotland. I was intrigued to learn what was holding her attention. […]

FACILITATING A PARTICIPATORY ACTION LEARNING ACTION RESEARCH (PALAR) PROCESS IN A HIGHER EDUCATIONAL CONTEXT

In this paper we talk about our journey as researchers discovering the realities that many of our students face in South Africa and changed how we understand and regard our students. The evolutionary process involved the gradual chipping away of traditional power relations between lecturers and students. This was at times unnerving, challenging and took […]

Participatory Action with Refugees with Disabilities

Standard approaches to qualitative research often exclude persons with different types of disabilities. In 2013 and 2014, the Women’s Refugee Commission applied a participatory model to examine the intersections of sexual and reproductive health and disability in three refugee settings. Respecting the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and a rights-based framework to […]

Choosing strategies that work from the start: A mixed methods study to understand effective development of community–academic partnerships

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Abstract provided on behalf of the authors: Emily Gomez, Amy Drahota, and Aubyn C Stahmer, Community–academic partnerships are believed to increase the effectiveness and feasibility of action research. While factors facilitating and hindering community–academic partnerships have been identified, their influence on the collaborative process is unknown, especially during community–academic partnership initiation and development. This explanatory sequential mixed […]

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