Tender Authority – Our Development Edge Session for the AR+E(co)Retreat
Victor Friedman, Michal Razer and Gili Talmor David share their work on “tender authority” which has emerged from 30 years of action research with schools. This work in helping teachers work more effectively with their most difficult students is described in their book Exclusion to Excellence: Building Restorative Relationships to Create Inclusive Schools They explain: […]
Read More...PAR social change in Santiago, Chile. Welcome to Dr. Lake Sagaris.
Dr. Lake Sagaris co-leads a social change lab in Santiago Chile – Laboratorio de Cambio Social, cambiarnos.cl. PAR – Participative Action Research – is at the heart of their work to build collaboration between university and urban community. The lab’s action research projects emphasize civic culture, mobility and sustainable urban development. Recently Lake’s lab joined our AR+ community as a stewarding organization. We share a recent […]
Read More...International Development, Aid and Social Transformation: ARJ Special
In this couple of videologues we introduce the new special issue of ARJ on International Development, Aid and Social Transformation. Guest Editors Kent Glenzer and Alfredo Ortiz did all the hard work of pulling it together and in addition to five lead papers, they also pull in practitioners’ responses on each of the articles. I […]
Read More...Action Research Healthcare in Sweden. Happier Patients, Lower Costs, Higher Quality
Steve Waddell interviews Hilary Bradbury about a recent study she published with Svante Lifvergren, MD., Ph.D. It describes one of the best elaborated examples of action research in healthcare which Svante has been shepherded in Sweden for over a decade to great success. The transformative approach described boils down to continuous innovation in healthcare, shaped […]
Read More...Next Generation Universities – Oguz Baburoglu, Ph.D
Oguz Baburoglu, Ph.D., is best known for bringing large numbers of citizens together to reinvent democracy using Future Search Conferences. First to bring this participatory constitution-making initiative as an intervention to Turkey, here he speaks about what is necessary for the successful realization of large-scale action research in polarized political contexts. Our conversation starts with […]
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