Making Change Stick
Posted By Tiffany Mendoza. Inspired by Burns, D. (2013). Systemic action research: Changing system dynamics to support sustainable change. Action research,12(1), 3-18 By speaking of how to support and sustain change, the title of the article immediately drew me in. I have always been a welcome advocate of change because of how it forces me […]
Read More...Enabling Marginalized Women to Critically Address Issues of Power and Identity
A blog inspired by Duncan, G., & Ridley-Duff, R. (2014). Appreciative inquiry as a method of transforming identity and power in Pakistani women. Action Research, 12(2), 117-135. Many women from the Middle East face many issues with power and identity. For example, law, culture and even family may try to obscure the identity of women, […]
Read More...Transformation 2017. Aug/Sep Conference on Actioning Climate Change Scholarship
Climate Change TRANSFORMATIONS IN PRACTICE Where: Dundee, Scotland When: Aug 28-Sep 2, 2017 The overarching theme of this conference is ‘sustainability transformations in practice’. Important advances about transformation across different disciplines are already emerging, such as from the arts, humanities, social science and different scientific fields, including social-ecological resilience research, social-technological transitions research, development studies, […]
Read More...Making Change Personal – Deb Dole
Engaging communities really begins with engaging individuals. I have written recently about voice, building capacity, representing communities, and engaging communities. My own dissertation work with adolescent mothers opened my eyes to a new way of engaging people in discussion through photography. I am not an artist. I am not a professional photographer. I AM visually […]
Read More...Centering, pulling, shaping together—action researching together
I spend quite a bit of my free time covered in mud. Several times a week I head to a pottery studio where I make all manner of vessels for mostly practical purposes. Because I tend to think about things in images or pictures– I’ve included a picture of me and one of my daughters […]
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