Action Research for Sustainability by Jonas Egmose
Action Research for Sustainability. Social Imagination Between Citizens and Scientist. A new book by Jonas Egmose is introduced by Mary Brydon-Miller’s foreword: “In Jonas Egmose’s view the response to the crucial need to address issues of sustainability lies in the ability of scientists and citizens to engage in democratic processes to develop shared understandings and […]
Read More...Mayan Women & Guatemala Genocide
M. Brinton Lykes, Ph.D. Professor of Community-Cultural Psychology at Boston College and Co-Director of its Center for Human Rights & International Justice has a new book out from Rutgers University Press. Drawing on eight years of feminist participatory action research (PAR), Alison Crosby (Associate Professor, Gender, Sexuality & Women’s Studies, York U., Toronto) and M. […]
Read More...A review of Lifescaping Practices in School Communities: Implementing Action Research and Appreciative Inquiry. By Rolla E. Lewis & Peg Winkelman, Routledge.
Kenneth Gergen exclaims in the Foreword, “Here Rolla Lewis, Peg Winkelman, and their associates confront the emerging condition with creative daring. They offer… a rational for new forms of action, a new range of challenging practices, and useful applications of their orientation in action…. My deepest hope is that what they share within this work […]
Read More...Judi Marshall on First Person Action Research
The field of action research has been waiting for Judi’s crystallization of first person inquiry practices. Her work of decades now shows in First Person Action Research (Marshall, 2016, Sage Publications), which offers a useful and timely read. First person action research – inquiry about our subjectivity, our biases, our partialities and motivations – helps inform better action, […]
Read More...AR wisdom for International Development/Large Scale Change. A review of Burns and Worsley
On this collaborative review forum we review new (and classic) action research materials. Cultivating the collaborative intent of action research means here that we invite comments on the reviews. We also invite you to review others of the multiplying resources in the field of action research. We hope this space is helpful for bringing awareness […]
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