Thanks, Jack. Any word on 9th Congress? I look forward to joining in this valuable exchange. Regards, Alan Dr. Alan Markowitz Director, Graduate Programs in Education (973) 290-4328 On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Jack Whitehead <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > You can access the Abstracts of some of the following Contributors to the > Face-to-Face sessions at the 8th World Congress of the Action Learning > Action Research Association (ALARA) at: > > > http://www.actionresearch.net/writings/alara2010/EdandLearningStreamConAbsopt.pdf > > > Dr Franziska Trede - Where is the praxis in practice-based education? > > Bob Pease - Interrogating Privileged Subjectivities: Tensions and Dilemmas > in Writing Reflexive Personal Accounts of Privilege. > > Ching-Kuei Chiang, Ruth Elder and Helen Chapman - Empowering Teachers to > Curriculum Change: An Action Research Approach. > > Greg Marston & Lynda Shevellar - The only logical action would have to be > one of desperation. > > Anre Fourie & Patrick Ebewo - The visual and tactile appeal of puppets as > educational tool in South Africa. > > Arely Paredes Chi, Maria Dolores Viga de Alva - Participatory Action > Research. A pathway to match theory and practice in Environmental Education > in Mexican Primary Schools > > Bruce and Pip Ferguson - Can the goldfish see the water? A critical > analysis of ‘good intentions’ in cross-cultural practice. > > Claudia Gillberg - Organisational Boundaries and AR inside and outside > Higher Education. > > Jeanette Åkerström - Involving Young People as Partners in Research: > Experiences from a Research Circle with Adolescent Girls. > > Joanne M. Arhar - Teacher Inquiry, Teacher Networks and the Preparation of > Educational Researchers: Lessons Learned in a Multi-Partner Collaboration. > > John Rapano - Surfacing learnings about power in the university and the > community in a doctoral student’s study of action research. > > Steven Jordan, Christine Stocek, Rodney Mark - Nigawchiisuun: Participatory > evaluation as indigenous methodology. > > Judy Buckingham and Amanda Hiscoe - The Partner Assisted Learning System > (PALS) project. > > Kazuyoshi Sato - Collaborative Action Research and Action Learning. > > Linda Henderson - A Deleuzian Framework for Participatory Action Research. > > Liz Schell - Action Research PhD Cohorts – Elements for Success. > > Marie Brennan - Interrupting 'neoliberalism as usual' in the education > sector: constraints and possibilities. > > Matete Madiba - Institutionalising quality learning in a research intensive > university. > > Namrata Jaitli - Teaching Participatory Research: Making Higher Education > Participatory and Relevant. > > Ruth Kiraka - Participant-Centred Learning: Is Teaching by the Case Method > an Effective Approach? > > Ching-Kuei Chiang, Bai-Jin Hong, Mei-Hsia Tang - Developing reflective > practitioners: a course designed to promote reflective learning. > > Hornfay Cherng - Creating Dialogical Learning Space: Action-Narrative > Inquiry as Alternative Teacher Education Curriculum. > > Lorraine Beveridge - “Taking Off” and flying with action learning and > action research. > > > > You can join in the global dialogue in the Education and Learning Virtual > Networking Stream for the 8th World Congress of ALARA at > http://www.alara.net.au/public/home . I'll be posting details of the > practitioner-researcher e-seminar on the ALARA site to see if this helps us > to become more familiar with each others context and research. > > Love Jack. >