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 […]
Read More...Crowdsourcing and Action Research. Fostering people’s participation in research through digital media.
By: Chiara Certomà, Michel Pimbert Web 2.0, mobile applications, big-data systems, virtual environments and simulations, geographical information systems and social networks are nowadays affecting our way of understanding and acting in the real world. The way people cooperate with scientists in coding, decoding, recording, interpreting and transforming information through web 2.0 software and interactive technologies […]
Read More...La sistematización de experiencias
By: Elza FonsecaFalkembach & Alfonso Torres Carrillo Resumen En el capítulo presentamos la sistematización de experiencias como práctica de investigativa participativa. A partir de dos trabajos realizados en Brasil y Colombia se exponenlos sentidos y características de este enfoque de investigación y sus operaciones metodológicas. Este modo de generar conocimiento, articuladoamovimientos sociales, se ubica en la tradición investigativa […]
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