Action Research For Sustainable Development In A Turbulent World

Presents and celebrates Action Learning and Action Research (ALAR) through stories, experiences, reflections and specific works of key proponents and participants in ALAR World Congresses. This title argues for the benefits of action research for sustainable development and problem solving in a turbulent world in the 21st century.

Presents and celebrates Action Learning and Action Research (ALAR) through stories, experiences, reflections and specific works of key proponents and participants in ALAR World Congresses. This title argues for the benefits of action research for sustainable development and problem solving in a turbulent world in the 21st century.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- List of acronyms -- 1 Introduction to conferences as sites of learning and development: Using participatory action learning and action research approaches -- Part I The Action Learning and Action Research Association (ALARA) -- 2 History and culture of ALARA: The Action Learning and Action Research Association -- 3 Reflections and future perspectives on action research for sustainable development in a turbulent world -- Part II The learning conference -- 4 The learning conference in theory and practice: From presentation to publication -- 5 The learning conference and worldview transformations -- 6 Knowledge development and translation through action learning and action research: A learning conference experience -- 7 Facilitating cross-cultural understanding via ALARA conferences -- Part III Applications and case studies -- 8 Action learning with student volunteers at an ALARA conference -- 9 Learning in action: Extending our understanding of appreciative inquiry -- 10 Inclusive pathways for lifelong action learning -- Part IV Reflections on ALARA and its learning conferences -- 11 Reflections on the world congresses in Cartagena in 1997 -- 12 Personal and professional learning: Experiential accounts of first-time participants at a learning conference -- 13 Are we practising what we preach? Critical reflections on the value of the ALARA World Congress 2015 for sustainable learning and development -- 14 Looking toward the future of action learning and action research through global network collaboration -- 15 Conclusions and critical reflections -- Author index -- Subject index

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The Palgrave International Handbook of Action Research offers a vivid portrait of both theoretical perspectives and practical action research activity and related benefits around the globe, while attending to the cultural, political, social, historical and ecological contexts that localize, shape and characterize action research. Consisting of teachers, youth workers, counselors, nurses, community developers, artists, ecologists, farmers, settlement-dwellers, students, professors and intellectual-activists on every continent and at every edge of the globe, the movement sustained and inspired by this community was born of the efforts of intellectual-activists in the mid-twentieth century specifically: Orlando Fals Borda, Paulo Freire, Myles Horton, Kurt Lewin. Cross-national issues of networking, as well as the challenges, tensions, and issues associated with the transformative power of action research are explored from multiple perspectives providing unique contributions to our understanding of what it means to do action research and to be an action researcher. This handbook sets a global action research agenda and map for readers to consider as they embark on new projects.

Action Learning and Action Research deepens understanding and contributes to new knowledge about the theory, practice and processes of Action Learning (AL) and Action Research. It clarifies what constitutes AL/AR in its many forms and what it is not.

Action research is a term used to describe a family of related approaches that integrate theory and action with a goal of addressing important organizational, community, and social issues together with those who experience them. It focuses on the creation of areas for collaborative learning and the design, enactment and evaluation of liberating actions through combining action and research, reflection and action in an ongoing cycle of cogenerative knowledge. While the roots of these methodologies go back to the 1940s, there has been a dramatic increase in research output and adoption in university curricula over the past decade. This is now an area of high popularity among academics and researchers from various fields—especially business and organization studies, education, health care, nursing, development studies, and social and community work. The SAGE Encyclopedia of Action Research brings together the many strands of action research and addresses the interplay between these disciplines by presenting a state-of-the-art overview and comprehensive breakdown of the key tenets and methods of action research as well as detailing the work of key theorists and contributors to action research. To watch a video of editor David Coghlan discuss the importance of this major reference work as well as the implications, challenges and successes of editing The SAGE Encyclopedia of Action Research, click here: http://youtu.be/P6YqCdZCZCs

This book provides a comprehensive conceptual framework, case studies, workshop processes and designs for academic development programs supported by two key concepts: Participatory Action Learning and Action Research (PALAR)—a conceptual integration of action learning and participatory action research—and action leadership.