What is Action Research?
A blog inspired by Davydd Greenwood’s “An analysis of the theory/concept entries in the SAGE Encyclopedia of Action Research: What we can learn about action research in general from the encyclopedia. 2015. Action Research,13(2), 198-213” Greenwood draws from The SAGE Encyclopedia of Action Research to highlight how action research realities are essentially complex, dynamic, open […]
Read More...Adaptation of a structured story-dialogue method for action research with social movement activist
Few people can resist a good story. Stories are about people and what they do. They’re how we think, and how we make meaning out of life experience. They offer emotion, perspective, and reflection, and touch us in ways that more abstract theoretical arguments simply cannot. Stories may also be triggers or starting points for […]
Read More...How the Student Choice Awards (SCA’s) were implemented
In this blog I share the process by which we arrived at the SCA “winners”, as described in the post “Introducing the first Action Research student choice awards”. In retrospect, the process included four major moments: 1) Bringing the key words to the students; 2) Narrowing to “my favorite” 5 and 3 articles; 3) From […]
Read More...“Difficult paths can be less difficult if patients and nurses walk together…”
This research emerged from the need of a group of nurses in improving the care of people with chronic disease, specifically patients with diabetes mellitus type 2. Despite the professionals’ effort, they were not satisfied with the results of their clients because lots of them had difficulty in controlling their diabetes as well as integrating […]
Read More...Taking the road less taken: reorienting the state for periurban water security
In this paper, we describe an action research approach to improve the accountability of drinking water service providers to the residents of village Sultanpur in periurban Gurgaon in North-West India. Periurban spaces are growing rapidly in spread and extent, but receive scant policy attention. They often suffer from institutional neglect and state apathy. Even then […]
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