The Karen Resettlement Story: A Participatory Action Research Project on Refugee Educational Experiences in the United States
Blog post written by Eunbae Lee for the article by Daniel Gilhooly and Eunbae Lee No topic today garners more attention than the issue of refugees and refugee resettlement. Yet, rarely are the voices of those refugees incorporated in the media or in academic journals. This study represents the collaboration between three Karen brothers and […]
Read More...Working together for a meaningful daily life for older persons: A participatory and appreciative action and reflection project—The lessons we learned
Blog post by Inger James An aging population with elderly persons suffering from multiple diseases together with accelerating medico-technical developments is putting increasing pressure on care systems all over the world. To cope with these challenges, it will not be possible to continue working as usual and healthcare systems must improve the integration and coordination […]
Read More...
1
Building knowledge democracy from the university: a case study in Spain
blog post by Emilio Lucio-Villegas The main aim of this article is to describe a singular experience in the University of Seville, Spain which connects universities and communities. It is a descriptive paper which strives to explore the work done to break the gap between universities and people in communities. This work starts from Freire’s […]
Read More...
1
The challenges of innovation for sustainable agriculture and rural development: integrating local actions into European policies with the Reflective Learning Methodology
Blog post by Heidrun Moschitz Innovation is no longer the linear transfer of new ideas and technology from science via education and extension to farmers. Instead, agricultural producers are seen as important actors in the innovation system, in which different actors jointly produce new techniques and organisational forms in Learning and Innovation Networks. Our paper in […]
Read More...
1
Social impact and the justification of action research knowledge
Blog post by Bjørn Gustavsen, Work Research Institute, Norway Research is under the obligation to produce knowledge that can be generalized. The common way of meeting this challenge is for research to study a limited number of phenomena, construct a theory, and claim that this theory is valid also for phenomena not studied. For action […]
Read More...