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ARNA 2025 Hybrid Annual Conference
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CONFERENCE THEME
An Artful Experience: The use of the arts throughout the participatory action research process
The 2025 ARNA Conference Team invites submissions from individuals and groups who are interested in sharing, discussing and improving collective efforts, particularly through using the arts as a form of communicating and making meaning within a participatory action research (PAR) approach. Submissions are also encouraged for creative ways to present PAR findings. The PAR approach equitably involves community members, organizational representatives, and academic researchers in all aspects of the research process where all partners contribute expertise and share decision making and ownership.
You may submit your abstract through the Google form on the ARNA website.
Early Bird Abstract Submission begins: November 1st, 2024. Final Abstract Submission Deadline: March 7th, 2025.
Results of abstract review returned to authors: Before March 21st, 2025.
Full conference registration fees are due for all presenters: April 15, 2025
Politics of Resilience-Building: Explorations of Community-Based Interventions in Trinidad and Tobago
No full textAs climate change becomes a pressing issue, there are many concerns about the vulnerability and autonomy of small island developing states like the Caribbean, and relatedly, for the meaningfulness of the initiatives that are being designed and implemented to build community resilience. We use a decolonial framework and semi structured interviews with nine governmental and non-governmental community-based climate change actors in Trinidad and Tobago to explore the issues impacting community resilience. Thematic analyses point to community resilience constructions as bottom-up initiatives built on principles of participatory action, access, and co-creation of initiatives. Implications for community-based resilience are also addressed.
Crystallizing Territorial Visions and Claims: Critical Mapping with Amazonian Kichwa Communities in Climate Change Politics
No full textOver the past decade, Kichwa communities in San Martín, Peru, have faced growing tensions with environmental authorities over conservation and climate policies affecting forest access and use. Through a participatory action research project, we co-created a collaborative mapping methodology to document Indigenous visions on these transformations. This paper examines how critical mapping—integrating hand-drawn maps, storytelling, timelines, and digitalization—crystallizes Indigenous territoriality, enabling both internal reflection on territorial struggles and claims-making. Rather than being merely a response to imposed environmental governance, mapping becomes a practice that generates Indigenous agency and territorial autonomy. By enabling communities to represent their landscapes, history, and rights on their own terms, critical mapping becomes a powerful tool for grassroots political action
The Storytelling Initiative: Community Podcasting at the Frontlines of Climate and Environmental Crises
No full textStories move people, and storytelling constitutes an important form of local action in the face of the multiple crises we confront at this time. Community-led podcasting is a powerful medium for conveying these stories, disrupting mass media’s dominant narrative to reframe discourse and amplify local perspectives on social and ecological issues. The Storytelling Initiative worked with frontline communities and organizations confronting climate and environmental crises to not just be subjects of podcasts, but authors and producers of their own stories. Each podcast shares a unique story of collective learning and action, ranging from youth in informal settlements building leadership to contend with climate impacts in their communities, to the use of legal mechanisms by communities in Pakistan to halt destructive government-sponsored development projects, to voices from the Arctic bringing gender relations into discussions of climate in the region. This article shares the community participatory podcasting approach used to work with the seven podcasting teams that produced these stories, and the community of practice that emerged as a result. It unpacks ways in which the stories they share push for wider change from the standpoint of their respective struggles, and invites listeners to learn with them. It also reflects on the potential of participatory podcast production and analysis as an emergent method of participatory action research
Network of Educational Action Research in Ireland – Online Event (October 23, 2025)
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NEARIMeet 23rd October 2025 Online: Teachers as Researchers!
Join us on Thursday October 23, 2025 at 18:00 GMT for an exciting online event focused on the theme of teachers as researchers. This event is perfect for educators, researchers, and anyone interested in improving education through research. Learn from experts in the field, participate in conversations and network with like-minded individuals. Don\u27t miss out on this opportunity to enhance your knowledge and skills in educational action research. Register now and be part of this enriching experience!
Our invited guest speaker for this NEARIMeet is: Prof. Marilyn Cochran-Smith
Register for the event through this link: NEARIMeet 23rd October 2025 Online: Teachers as Researchers Tickets, Thu, Oct 23, 2025 at 6:00 PM | Eventbrit
Mighty Village Books Launches a Bold New Vision for Canadian Publishing
No full textGovernor General’s Literary Awards finalist Danielle Daniel envisions a new future of equitable publishing with new children\u27s press on Manitoulin Island
Award-winning author and illustrator Danielle Daniel, a finalist for the 2024 Governor General’s Literary Award, is proud to announce the launch of MIGHTY VILLAGE BOOKS, a new independent press devoted to publishing exceptional children’s literature and enrichment products while championing fair and equitable publishing practices in Canada.
Founded on a belief in the power of the small press, MIGHTY VILLAGE BOOKS prioritizes quality over quantity, offering creators meaningful support and a greater share of profits. The press is especially committed to amplifying underrepresented Canadian voices, with a particular focus on creators and stories rooted in Northern Ontario. MIGHTY VILLAGE BOOKS is dedicated to young readers and foundational early literacy, specializing in picture books and middle grade fiction.
MIGHTY VILLAGE BOOKS will open submissions for its inaugural list in January of 2026. It is expected to launch its first titles in spring of 2028.
Visit the MIGHTY VILLAGE WEBSITE to view the full line of items and to learn more about wholesale opportunities with independent stores.
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