{"id":16516,"date":"2023-07-27T15:18:27","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T15:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/actionresearchplus.com\/?p=16516"},"modified":"2023-07-27T15:18:29","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T15:18:29","slug":"what-we-carry-shapes-our-action-research-editorial-arj-issue-2-2023-by-hilary-bradbury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/actionresearchplus.com\/what-we-carry-shapes-our-action-research-editorial-arj-issue-2-2023-by-hilary-bradbury\/","title":{"rendered":"What we carry shapes our action research: Editorial ARJ Issue 2, 2023 by Hilary Bradbury"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
In my work as editor in chief at Action Research journal (ARJ) I\u2019ve gathered five papers for the second issue of 2023.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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Re-reading them, many months since after their initial acceptance, I\u2019m struck by the behind-the-scenes insights they offer on today\u2019s headline news. For example, Steve Kroeger (2019)<\/a>\u00a0writes from the ongoing unrest in Palestine, while Lillian\u00a0Omondi (2020)<\/a>\u00a0writes about climate resilience. Both topics will remain relevant well beyond the contexts in which they write and, I fret, for years to come.<\/div>\n
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Action researchers can\u2019t really help transformations happen in contexts of intractable problems if we are not, slowly but surely, introducing new ways of working with power. This is unfamiliar territory for most of us. As Lillian\u00a0Omondi (2020)<\/a>\u00a0puts it, \u201c[action research processes] may not be every academic\u2019s cup of tea, as they require relinquishing more power to the research subjects than most researchers would be comfortable with. The element of self-critique and reflection for continuous improvement while collecting data may also not be what most researchers are familiar with.\u201d Her article, and that of the others in this issue, tells us that the reflexivity called for in our work is indeed worth it. I hope that more of us will find a taste for this particular action researching \u201ccup of tea.\u201d<\/div>\n
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To move from our (colonial) legacy of power-over to power-with, be it with one another or with Mother Nature, takes self-critiquing reflexivity. For Kroeger this becomes a call to examine how he shows up as a US citizen in Palestine. How often we forget to examine our own sensemaking and so we continue with extractive dynamics according to norms we unconsciously carry with us.<\/div>\n
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New participative methods enrich the action research orientation<\/h2>\n
Each article also offers new methods and new takes on familiar methods for working in a liberating power-with way.\u00a0Kroeger (2019)<\/a>\u00a0introduces subtextual phenomenology in his context of educational reform.\u00a0Omondi\u2019s (2020)<\/a>\u00a0work describes Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) in harvesting local knowledge about climate resilience;\u00a0Menon and Hartz-Karp (2020)<\/a>\u00a0write from their context in India to describe public deliberation processes in Indian cities toward a more sustainable path;\u00a0Loignon et al. (2020)<\/a>\u00a0describe photovoice as it\u2019s used by persons living in poverty to have their voice included in decisions that affect their healthcare.\u00a0Taliep et al. (2020)<\/a>\u00a0describe community asset mapping and show us how participants can elevate awareness of the internal and external assets of a community. In each, we see there exist more supportive resources for helping transformations than they initially knew.<\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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I invite you to read the rest of the editorial and to delve into the papers, using the following link: https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/10.1177\/14767503231174679<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n
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