Blog by Mark Harris, Inspired by Hopkinson, C. (2015) Using poetry in a critically reflexive action research co-inquiry with nurses. Action Research, 13 (1). pp. 30-47. Poetry as a narrative tool resonates with me because of my exposure to verse in its many forms at a young age. Poetry, like music, food and laughter was […]
Read More...This paper focusses on the story of Deer (not her real name), a participant in my Photovoice project with 12 ex-prisoners in South Australia. People who have been to prison rarely have the opportunity to tell their stories in their own words. In particular, women ex-prisoners tend to remain silent about their experiences because of […]
Read More...Praise the Gods and the Universes, Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Technological curiosity of radio signals 100,000,000 light years away, Praise the stars and sun so near, Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Praise the galaxies and in-between interstellar spaces, Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Praise the atoms, atums, and adams, Praise it all with voices and violins, Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â With flutes, bongo beat-drums, and aboriginal didgeridoos, […]
Read More...One of my favorite characteristics of Action Researchers is that we consider different ways of knowing. As P. Reasons states so well, “research practitioners to take into account many different forms of knowing— knowledge of our purposes as well of our ideas, knowledge that is based in intuition as well as the senses, knowledge expressed […]
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