Global Next Gen ART: Faculty help it happen. 2022 Collogue. Podcast #9
Since the founding of Action Research journal in 2003, we have had the immodest aim to help recover and transform social science. Our intent has been to assist the Academy, as well as the public and private sector, in discovering additions and alternatives to heretofore “ivory tower,” materialist-positivist research and practice. We continue to extend […]
Read More...Art practice with migrant women. Mastoureh Fathi and Rabia Nasimi
Action researchers Mastoureh Fathi and Rabia Nasimi chose to explore the notion of home for migrants through art practice. They have just published with ARJ: Art practice with migrant women: Three challenges to rediscovering home. They explain the challenges explored in their paper. “What does “home” mean for migrant women? By simply asking “what home […]
Read More...Orlando Fals-Borda’s Participatory Turn, 1977-1980 by Juan Mario Díaz-Arévalo
Juan Mario Díaz-Arévalo has published a paper with ARJ entitled “In search of the ontology of participation in Participatory Action Research: Orlando Fals-Borda’s Participatory Turn, 1977-1980.” He introduces his paper: “My article provides an evidence-based account of the development of the “participation” concept in the thinking and practice of Orlando Fals-Borda, one of the pioneers […]
Read More...Tasting collective intelligence. Or no more Vogon Poetry Torture thank you!
Do you ever feel tortured by people talking at you. Not talking with you, but at you. Maybe you listen and then you just pretend to listen. Or […]
Read More...Shining light on the dark side of action research: Power, relationality and transformation
We know that ART has a ‘dark side’. ARJ Associate Editors Koen Bartels and Victor Friedman have written an editorial for the latest issue of ARJ about precisely that! Koen and Victor explain: “ART is a complex and demanding process. It demands relational, conceptual and experimental skills not usually taught together in conventional educational programs. […]
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