INDIGENOUS SCHOOL DEVELOPMENT: Reducing the dominance of national curricula.
“Traditions are good, but do they really help the pupils become successful?” I got the provocative question from a teacher in an action research and INDIGENOUS school development study. The teacher questioned if Indigenous education, gave pupils the best possibilities to become successful. There is, of course, no simple answer to that question. However, […]
Read More...Empowering nurses through action research for developing a new nursing handover program in a pediatric ward in Iran
Developing a new nursing handover program in a pediatric ward in Iran focused on the handing over of patient information among nurses between shifts. The participants in the action research, (12 nurses, 2 assistants, a head nurse, with academic researchers as facilitators), reached a significant decrease in time and cost of nursing handover.
Read More...Research translation through participatory research: The case of two community-based projects in low-income African settings
blogpost written by Deborah Isobell Imagine the amount of funding that research projects receive every year. Not just nationally, but globally. Now take a moment to think about the knowledge generated from that research. Is it being used to its full potential to change peoples’ lived experiences? In instances where the application of research-derived knowledge […]
Read More...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...Democratic encounters? Epistemic privilege, power and community-based participatory action research
Blogpost by Julia Janes Dr. Davydd Greenwood, associate editor of AR, noted that: ”This manuscript seems to us a very intelligent and unusually sharp critique of so-called participatory practice, one that gets beyond mere denunciation of academic power”.!! Being a sharp critic of Participatory Action Research (P/AR) has been difficult to take on, both personally […]
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