PAR and story telling
By: Tina Koch My argument is that an PAR apprenticeship is required to learn the PAR processes. These research skills cannot be learned from a text book. Two studies will be discussed in the powerpoint attached to show the apprenticeship model: (1) Older patients: Prevention of Delirium in the Acute Care Hospital setting (2) What can […]
Read More...On photoPAR, with researchers who critically and reflexively engage white privilege towards anti-racist praxis
By: M. Brinton Lykes & Holly Scheib There is great potential for personal, interpersonal, and ultimately community growth and societal change through participatory action research. Despite this, some of the resources through which we engage with participatory and action research and activist scholarship — specifically, photovoice — have lost their emancipatory potential. Many activities self-described as […]
Read More...Reinventing Schools In the Company of Friends
By: Ernie Stringer Action research seeks to explore dimensions of human experience usually neglected in the search for “objective” knowledge. In my work I describe research processes that engage people’s energy and enthusiasm, enabling them to work together with high degrees of involvement and ownership. Action research, for me, is not merely a technical process, but […]
Read More...More about Empowerment Evaluation
By: David Fetterman Learn more about empowerment evaluation Web-based Resources: Videos: Ignite Lecture (20 slides in 5 minutes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjUvV4HHH38 AEA 2014 Evaluation Advocacy and Use Award acceptance speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0iUbdja-vQ&feature=youtu.be Fetterman, Patton, and Scriven Empowerment Evaluation Debate: http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/lap/id/69 Videos of Empowerment evaluations: http://www.davidfetterman.com/Videos.htm Blog: Empowerment Evaluation Blog: eevaluation.blogspot.com Also see Stanford Social Innovations Review blogs: Empowerment Evaluation in the […]
Read More...Mediated Dialogue: Facilitating dialogue for exploring and addressing complex challenges
By: Charles J. Palus & John B. McGuire Dialogue can be difficult to facilitate. It’s a common problem in leadership contexts: How can we get people talking with each other to explore and more effectively address the complex challenges that they share? Here is an effective way to stimulate dialogue developed at The Center for Creative Leadership. It works by […]
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