AR Special Issue: Development, Aid, and Social Transformation
The purpose of this special issue of the Action Research Journal is to name marginalization and to seek insights – practical, practice-focused insights – about how action research methodology in its most liberatory and transformative forms might help Official Development Assistance tackle wicked, intractable, complex problems. The special issue builds on a long history of […]
Read More...AR+ Spring Community Update: Engagement Survey and …
Spring is in the air here in Portland Oregon, that’s the good news. Less good is that physicist Stephen Hawking has just warned us that we have about 100 years to figure out whether we’ll become extinct as a species. Sobering, eh! It certainly focuses the mind on how to use our time and attention […]
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Taking action on land
If there’s one thing we are both passionate about, it’s land. Not that we want it ourselves. Rather, as scholar-activists, we’re both convinced that in South Africa, given our history, land reform is essential and must succeed in redistributing land from white to black farmers, families and communities. Like other action researchers, for us it […]
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Up-scaling action research and implications for community organizing practice
Post Academic researchers often fail to fully comprehend the scope of and causes behind challenges experienced in low-income neighborhoods unless they engage in action research (AR), where relationships built over time allows for research questions to emerge that combines local-knowledge with academics’ knowledge. Through an AR partnership in a Charlotte, North Carolina neighborhood, we had the […]
Read More...David Week responds to Eva Maria Jernsand’s article: Engagement as transformation
If philosophy is the activity of interrogating the question “how shall I live,” politics is the process of interrogating the question “How shall we live (together).” In this article, the engaged PAR process is described as “learning,” but I see it equally as the political process: “engagement as transformation” describes a process which brings stakeholders […]
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