Action research with street-based sex workers
By Marta Graça Some years ago, during my trainee as a social worker, I worked in harm reduction with sex workers and people who inject drugs. I became sensitive to the lack of participation of sex workers in the design, implementation and evaluation of social and health services, in the academic research, and/or in the sociopolitical debate […]
Read More...Knowledge, Confidence, Trust: Dialogue with Million Belay
Million Belay, founder of the MELCA-Ethiopia NGO and the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA), is an expert and advocate for forestry conservation, resilience, indigenous livelihoods and food and seed sovereignty. He’s also an action researcher. We caught up when he was visiting at the Swedish Resiliency Center. Hilary: Is academia and its potential […]
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A New World Map
– being curious with a sense of meaning, I have done action research all my life. Now 64, it only dawned on me that it was in fact first-person-action research when I received Judi Marshall’s book with the same title. My field is not management but applied live spirituality. I am now looking to draw […]
Read More...Co-Lab Human Vertical Development. DOLCE Co-lab. September start.
Convening Cohort 2.0. September 2018 start. DOLCE is a space for peer inquiry/practice with “adult vertical development.” The science of constructivist adult developmental theory (AKA Vertical Development) is at an unprecedented level of popularity, applied in organizations worldwide and taught and written about in many contexts. The most popular teachers and theorists are Bill Torbert, Susanne […]
Read More...Exploration in to Action Research Review of Cultural Clash supported by Buddhist Methodology
Blog by Marcus Seels I found Shen’s (2015), Action Research in a Problem Avoiding Culture using a Buddhist Systems Methodology to be an interesting article. It’s an investigation into integration in real world situations. Buddhist teachings are an established habit and there is a need for understanding of culture.The article under review looked into a cultural […]
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