Action Researching at Boston College
Professor Paul Gray in conversation with Hilary Bradbury about a popular action research program for doctoral students. Paul Gray is a professor in the department of sociology at Boston College where he helped design a successful and popular program for action researching scholar practitioners. It started in the 1980’s. For many years Paul taught and […]
Read More...One Key to Success is a Trusting Partnership
A blog inspired by Kroeger, S., Beirne, J., and Kraus., T. (2015). You make the road by walking: A case study of partnership and collaboration. Action Research. 13(4), 354–37. PhD students often seek to become change agents, yet change is easier conducted in partnership with others. Building good partnerships with organizations enhances the success for all stakeholders […]
Read More...History is Written by the Researcher: a Reflection on Mullett’s “Issues of Equity and Empowerment in Knowledge Democracy: Three Community Based Research Examples”
Winston Churchill once famously said, “History is written by the victors.” While action research is certainly no war, this quote highlights that those in power control the narrative. In Action Research, the stories that are told are those of the subjects, but the voice, and therefore the perspective, is usually that of the researcher. Therefore, […]
Read More...Human Reflections of a Maximum Security Prison
A blog inspired by: 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...A Convoluted Approach to Action Research
A blog inspired by Greenwood, D. J. (2012). Doing and learning action research in the neo-liberal world of contemporary higher education. Action Research, 10(2), 115-132. doi:10.1177/1476750312443573 Nearly two decades into the 21st century many colleges and universities are still teaching using a Tayloristic approach, where the focus is on efficiency and segmented learning, and where […]
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