Blog de Pablo Costamagna from Santa Fe, Argentina, bi-lingual (español / inglés) on his experience of new politics. “I arrived at the AR+ coLAB on politics of caring for transformation. I was motivated to find new views on Action Research with different trajectories than I am used to. Now that it’s ended, I feel that […]
Read More...Bridging the territory between me, we, and living E(arth)!What we love about six explorations into AR for sustainability The three of us – Marina Apgar, Alfredo Ortiz Aragón & Paul Gray, associate editors, Action Research Journal (ARJ) – were recently given an opportunity to work together to deepen our understanding and share more broadly how […]
Read More...“Transformations Systems” and AR Steve Waddell – AR+ Member, SDG Transformations Forum Lead Staff, Networking Action Principal AR has an important role to play in the development of “transformations systems”. That concept easily provokes confused frowns at first, but it is relatively simple. It grew out of conversations around the development of the SDG Transformations […]
Read More...If philosophy is the activity of interrogating the question “how shall I live,” politics is the process of interrogating the question “How shall we live (together).” In this article, the engaged PAR process is described as “learning,” but I see it equally as the political process: “engagement as transformation” describes a process which brings stakeholders […]
Read More...Participatory tourism development projects are considered effective and democratic since they engage people in interactive learning processes that change individuals and societies. In order to be transformative, a relational and social process must be achieved, which challenges prior knowledge and beliefs. The purpose of this article is to explore engagement as a transformative feature of […]
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