Action Beyond Division By Joseph Martin Stevenson
AR+ friend Joseph Martin Stevenson of Madison, Mississippi finds that when it comes to race, most people do not know what they do not know. He asks us to consider how everyday symbols – from math! – can help empower, enlighten, and engage us on our journey with racial justice. I appreciate his alchemical suggestion […]
Read More...Introducing the First Action Research Student Choice Awards
This summer (2017) during an Action Research Plus committee videoconference (AR+, the initiatives enabled through this very www.actionresearchplus.com website), Hilary Bradbury, Dusty Columbia Embury and I hatched the idea of getting my PhD students at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, Texas, involved in engaging action research knowledge through AR+. Even before […]
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...You make the road by walking – Se hace camino al andar
Blog post and original art work by Steve Kroeger A sage expression from Machado’s (1982) selected poems, you make the road by walking (“Se hace camino al andar”), captures the nature of accompaniment in partnership development. In our roles as two high school co-instructors and a university faculty member, we examined what initially brought us […]
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You learn from going through the process: The perceptions of South African school leaders about action research
What is the value of action research for motivating change in school principals who work under difficult circumstances? This was my question. I was surprised to read the following comment from one of the reviewers of this paper: The main contribution of the paper is its account of how action research can assist school leaders […]
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