From experience to action in recovery-oriented mental health practice: A first person inquiry
Blog post by Susan Kidd Relationships in health are formed in the context of our shared humanity and the social world. Consumer participation assists in building understanding of the social world in which care is provided. Broad consumer participation is a fundamental prerequisite for the further development of recovery oriented mental health services. Ideally consumers […]
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Our way(s) to action research: Doctoral students’ international and and interdisciplinary collective memory work
Blog post by Zheng Zhang Have you ever felt lonely on your journey as becoming action researchers? Have you ever had a hankering after support from experienced others? We did. Luckily, in the burnished fall of 2011, we met in Gothenburg, Sweden and started our collective biography as fledgling action researchers. Highly motivated to make […]
Read More...When organizational politic work within and against action research in a school community
For years, action research has been a tool teachers (and others) have used to address a wide variety of issues. Whether addressing a school-wide curriculum concern, addressing a problem of practice in their classroom, or struggling to connect with an individual student, teachers around the globe are using action research as a means to empower themselves […]
Read More...Recognizing and Developing Young Mothers’ Leadership Capacity Through Participatory Research
During graduate school, I taught in an interdisciplinary leadership program full of inspiring and interesting students, all of whom were used to being identified as ‘leaders’. As an undergraduate student, I was the Executive Vice-President of my university students’ union. Before that, I was on my high school student council, I ran leadership camps for […]
Read More...The Importance of the Second Loop in Educational Technology: An Action Science study of introducing blogging in a course curriculum
Integrating new Internet based technologies into the classroom will be a major, ongoing task for educators over the coming years. The readable/writable web changes our relationships with information along with the traditional student/teacher relationships. In the  The Importance of the Second Loop in Educational Technology: An Action Science study of introducing blogging in a course […]
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