Bringing Asylum Shadows into the Light with Danny v. Montfort
We have just published a paper by Danny van Montfort, Coghlan, D., & Zandee, D. P. (2025). First-Person Insights From Appreciative Inquiry as Insider Action Research: How to Integrate the Shadow Into Appreciation. Action Research. Danny, who works in a Dutch asylum center for unaccompanied refugee children, introduces the paper: “When we think about Appreciative […]
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The Beginning is never the beginning: Co-producing action research space
Abstract provided on behalf of the author: Hilde Refstie It is often difficult to identify when a particular research project begins. Action research, for example, is often presented as emanating from a group of participants without it necessarily being revealed how a particular research constellation came into existence. Stakeholder analyses are presented, but relatively few […]
Read More...Bridging transdisciplinarity and action research
Blog post by Steven Lam Transdisciplinarity brings a focus on real-world problems. Action research focuses on solutions. Yet, both transdisciplinarity and action research share similar principles such as reflexivity and participation. How, then, might transdisciplinarity and action research ‘speak’ to each other? Our group of four graduate students and one community partner reflected on our […]
Read More...What is Good Action Research: Quality Choicepoints With a Refreshed Urgency for ARJ
As a stakeholder to AR+ you are hopefully familiar with our journal – Action Research. Much of our blog is devoted to making journal articles available. If you’re an author, reviewer, reader of the AR+ blog, or any/all of those categories, you may be aware that our purpose since inception with ARJ, an international, peer-reviewed […]
Read More...FACILITATING A PARTICIPATORY ACTION LEARNING ACTION RESEARCH (PALAR) PROCESS IN A HIGHER EDUCATIONAL CONTEXT
In this paper we talk about our journey as researchers discovering the realities that many of our students face in South Africa and changed how we understand and regard our students. The evolutionary process involved the gradual chipping away of traditional power relations between lecturers and students. This was at times unnerving, challenging and took […]
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