Children Without A Voice
A blog inspired by The voices of youth in foster care: A participant action research study.; Ponciano, Leslie DEC 2013 Vol.11, Issue 4. 428,000 children are in foster care today. Despite their numbers, these children rarely have a voice, due to their status as minors within an already marginalized group. In the article, The voices of youth […]
Read More...The Complex Puzzle Game: Systemic Action Research
A blog inspired by Burns, D. (2014). Systemic action research: Changing system dynamics to support sustainable change. Action Research, 12(1), 3-18. I chose this article to learn the basics of systems thinking and to understand how to apply systems thinking in action research. Reading this article made me think of puzzle games and how complex they […]
Read More...Action Research – Building Momentum for Continuous Action
A blog inspired by: Social impact and the justification of action research knowledge, Bjorn Gustavsen (2014) Similar to Newton’s Cradle, Action Research is continuous cycle of momentum, energy, and action. This article is a must read for any researcher trying to initiate action and change. You, the Action Researcher, are an agent of change. In Social impact […]
Read More...Human Reflections of a Maximum Security Prison
A blog inspired by:Â Researching prisoner experiences with prison officers: An action research inspired approach. Deborah H Drake, I have been serving the public in law enforcement for over 25 years, to include local, state and federal service, so I am aware of the potential consequences of crimes, such as incarceration at maximum-security prisons. I selected […]
Read More...Taking the road less taken: reorienting the state for periurban water security
In this paper, we describe an action research approach to improve the accountability of drinking water service providers to the residents of village Sultanpur in periurban Gurgaon in North-West India. Periurban spaces are growing rapidly in spread and extent, but receive scant policy attention. They often suffer from institutional neglect and state apathy. Even then […]
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