Naturally emerging regulation and the danger of delegitimizing conventional leadership: Drawing on the example of Wikipedia
By: Dariusz Jemielniak Wikipedia is the largest collaborative movement in humankind history. I studied its community extensively in my six-year ethnographic project (with results out in 2014 in Common Knowledge? An Ethnography of Wikipedia at Stanford University Press), and came to a conclusion that Wikipedia movement is, actually, strongly resembling many of our Action Research tools and […]
Read More...You make the road by walking – Se hace camino al andar
Blog post and original art work by Steve Kroeger A sage expression from Machado’s (1982) selected poems, you make the road by walking (“Se hace camino al andar”), captures the nature of accompaniment in partnership development. In our roles as two high school co-instructors and a university faculty member, we examined what initially brought us […]
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Large Scale Change Action Research
By: Steve Waddell, Milla McLachlan, Greta Meszoely, Sandra Waddock The really big issues of today such as climate change, poverty, food security, sustainable energy are essentially big geographically – they’re part of globalization. As “complex challenges”, these issues require an action research approach: they require active engagement of stakeholders in the co-development of solutions, prototypes and […]
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