It's a busy couple of weeks for action research.
Last week Margaret Riel demonstrated the web-pages of the Action Research Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association at the Business Meeting of the SIG in Denver. Margaret is Chair of the AR SIG. I've added the url of the web-pages to:
http://www.actionresearch.net/otherpages.shtml
Do please check to see what other urls you think I should be adding.
On Thursday this week Lonnie Rowell is organising the first Collaborative Action Research Network (CARN) Study Day in North America at the University of San Diego. Lonnie you might like to introduce your plans for the day? I'm hoping to post some video-clips on YouTube at the end of the week on visits to three educational settings, during the study day, with young people's contributions. (I'm assuming that the volcanic ash from Iceland will permit me to fly from Heathrow to San Diego on Wednesday! )
On Friday this week the keynote on the theme of the 7th Annual Action Research Conference at the University of San Diego is on
'Empowerment and action research: Personal growth, professional development, and social change in educational and community settings'
You can access notes for the keynote at:
http://www.actionresearch.net/writings/jack/jwsandiego10.pdf .
Any suggestions to strengthen the ideas and our interconnecting and branching channels of communication using urls before this coming Friday would be most welcome.
On Saturday this week Margaret is chairing a session at the 7th Annual Action Research Conference which includes presentations from her students at Pepperdine University. I'm hoping to post the discussant responses next week.
Joan (Walton) - I have reached the end of your posting! I felt the strong attraction in your point that:
"Action research, on the other hand, (again as I understand it) – suggests that we have the power and ability to create the kind of world we wish to see created – and that this is a process of determining what our values are that give a sense of meaning and purpose to our lives, exploring how we put those values into practice, identifying ways of validating whether outcomes reflect intentions, and adjusting our views/beliefs/ ways of doing things as a result of our evaluation of those outcomes."
Love Jack.
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