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Revisiting "Strategies for addressing ethical concerns in action research" Mary Brydon-Miller
In 2006 Davydd Greenwood, Olav Eikeland, and I edited a special issue of ARJ focused on ethics and AR. We concluded that special issue with a short list of proposals for “encouraging greater attention to and depth of reflection on the quetsion of ethics and action resrac and the challenges this presents” (p. 130). Over […]
Read More...Reflection – Valerie Louis
In my post last week I wrote about graduation. And now I find myself in a place of not-knowing. I have no idea what is next. Some days I stress and other days I go with the flow. Today I looked at this not-knowing time as the time in action research that is exciting, engaging, and yes…unnerving. […]
Read More...Alphabet Soup, Community Health and Capacity Building – Deb Dole
AR, PAR, PR, CBPR, CBR – The letters and words we use to describe the process and practice of participation and action sometimes appear as a secret language code created by and for the select and privileged. The parrallel threads of action and participation cross at multiple points along the contimuum of engaged scholarship that […]
Read More...In it for the Long Haul – Mary Brydon-Miller
This past week my son, Rhys, spent the evening at a Kentuckians for the Commonwealth (KFTC) meeting discussing efforts to stop the development of a new coal ash dump in my hometown of Louisville, Kentucky. When I first learned of the Appalachian Land Ownership Study in the 1980’s I had no idea that I would […]
Read More...Ethics, Authenticity, and Teaching Action Research – Mary Brydon-Miller
In a meeting with a student today to discuss her comprehensive exam, I said that I had a new standard question I would ask every student to address. That question is to describe your ethical stance and to discuss how your proposed research embodies that position. But how do we help students to articulate their […]
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