I thought I was neutral & outside “the system”!
Blog post by Alfredo Ortiz Aragón I’ll add an example of my own; one that touches on the need for context-specific practice, which I successfully avoided for years! (yet not on purpose). For many years I facilitated organizational capacity self-assessments, meant to help NGOs with whom we were working to better understand their strengths and weaknesses […]
Read More...Active Ageing in the nursing home: could participatory action research provide the answer?
Dr. Svante Lifvergren writes of our work, ““An ageing population with more citizens suffering from multiple diseases is putting increasing pressure on the healthcare system. To meet these challenges, it is imperative to invite elderly to co-create new structures and processes together with the care provider to transform the care system. “Active ageing” seeks to […]
Read More...Practivist
Blog post by Jasmine Lambert “practivist [prak-ti-vist] :a person who works in a professional manner, or regularly does an skill or activity that requires practice, to support causes they care about” An Ideal Professional During a recent event (called “Deans’ seminar”) at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (MIIS), we (current […]
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...Using Video: Part of a Matrix of Approaches to Securing Informed Consent
I am in the early stages of the fieldwork of my PhD research project which focuses on the impact of infant massage on families at times when they are also facing challenging life circumstances. I am a student at the Centre for Research in Early Childhood (CREC) in Birmingham and the University of Wolverhampton (both […]
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