ALARj Action Learning and Action Research Journal
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Capturing the proven experience through action learning. The systematic work of developing quality in Swedish leisure-time centres
No full textThe aim of this article is to discuss the requirement of the Swedish Educational Act that says that the activities of school and leisure-time centres should be based on (soft) science and proven experience. The discussion is carried out through illustrations from a collaborative action learning project that took place between researchers and leisure-time teachers with the overall aim to strengthen evidence-based knowledge about leisure-time teachers and to clarify their proven experience. The combination of pupils’ proven experiences and the leisure-time teachers’ reflective and researching approach proved to be the best route to follow in increasing the quality of the leisure-time centres. The leisure-time centres involved, to a greater extent than before the project, are now built upon a scientific approach as well as the proven experiences of both the pupils and the leisure-time teachers. The project underlines the well-known facts that developmental work needs stability and continuity to lay the foundation for sustainable change and that changes need to be a clear part of the schools’ development organization
‘Ngulluck Katitj Wah Koorl Koorliny/ Us mob going along learning to research together’: Drawing on action research to develop a literature review on Indigenous gendered health and wellbeing
No full textThis paper describes the collaborative work practices of the Health and Wellbeing Node within the National Indigenous Research and Knowledges Network (NIRAKN). The authors reflect on the processes they used to research and develop a literature review. As a newly established research team, the Health and Wellbeing Node members developed a collaborative approach that was informed by action research practices and underpinned by Indigenous ways of working. The authors identify strong links between action research and Indigenous processes. They suggest that, through ongoing cycles of research and review, the NIRAKN Health and Wellbeing Node developed a culturally safe, respectful and truly collaborative way of working together and forming the identity of their work group. In this paper, they describe their developing work processes and explain the way that pictorial conceptual models contributed to their emerging ideas
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Editorial
No full textI see the creative arts as an active ‘field’ (Bordieu, 1993), where opportunities for Action Research and Action Learning may result (intentionally) in a redistribution of power. The papers in this special edition demonstrate how effective the arts can be in applying ontological equity through creative community building, social justice, knowledge construction and Aboriginal recognition and collective self-determination – an aim of your usual editor Susan Goff, in producing this edition.
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No full textSpecial Edition: Creative and Expressive Arts in Action Research and Action Learnin
Notice of ALAR conference 2014
No full textSpace saver for the 2014 Australiasin ALARA conference - November, Canberr
