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.