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2. 'Why Don't They Just Move Closer?': Adolescent Critical Consciousness Development in YPAR about Food Security
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Amy J. Anderson, Hannah Carson Baggett, Carey E. Andrzejewski, and Sean A. Forbes
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The aim of this paper is to explore high school students' critical consciousness development in the context of youth participatory action research (YPAR) focused on food security at an alternative school in Alabama. The YPAR project took place in an elective agriscience class with 10 students (Seven Black, two white, one Latino) who were in the 10th to 12th grades. Utilizing data from researcher notes, classroom observations, and archival classroom documents, we present students' YPAR project outcomes to share their research-driven solutions to food insecurity in their community. Vignettes of classroom dialogue are also constructed to illustrate moments of reflection in the YPAR context about food security. We present three "critical moments," or instances of social analysis, to illustrate how students' individual-level attributions occurred alongside teacher dialogue and student-led investigation of structural inequities in the community. Findings illustrate how students' nonlinear critical consciousness development consisted of reliance on individual-level attributions in classroom dialogue co-occurring with systems-thinking activities and other YPAR project outcomes. This paper has implications for research on the imperfect and wavering nature of adolescent critical consciousness development in YPAR.
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3. Teacher and Learner Well-Being in Collaborative Classroom Research
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Annamaria Pinter
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This paper focuses on Seligman's (2011) PERMA components (positive emotion, engagement, relationships, meaning, and accomplishment) of well-being. Teachers' reflection data have been analysed deductively to identify components of PERMA as relevant to themselves as well their perceptions of their learners' well-being during and after a longitudinal classroom action research project in India. The original British Council study was not focused on well-being but instead on exploring the feasibility of working with children in partnership in classroom research. Teachers reported positive emotions, high levels of engagement, closer relationships with learners in their classes, and they also felt that their work became more meaningful and purposeful. Researching classrooms in partnership with children has the potential to promote many benefits for both learners and teachers, including increased levels of well-being. The paper argues therefore that working in partnership with learners may be an excellent starting point to promote well-being in any classroom.
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4. Supporting WFN Collective Social Entrepreneurship through Social Movement Learning and Critical Participatory Action Research
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Sarah M. Ray, Jessica Hinshaw, Chitvan Trivedi, and Gayatri Malhotra
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The purpose of this conceptual paper is to explore the complexities and connections between women, femme, and nonbinary (WFN) collective social entrepreneurs, social movement learning (SML), and critical participatory action research (CPAR) within the fields of adult education (AE) and human resource development (HRD). WFN collective social entrepreneurship serves as a reaction and solution to system failures, by creating supportive learning environments. We discuss the potential of social movement learning (SML) in these collectives, offering marginalized learners opportunities for skill development, knowledge sharing, and social impact efforts. This paper proposes using CPAR as a research approach to support social movements and amplify marginalized voices. CPAR can illuminate the development and learning networks of WFN social entrepreneur collectives and emphasize the importance of inclusive and intersectional approaches in entrepreneurial education and research within AE/HRD.
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5. Students Transitioning from Primary to Secondary Mathematics Learning: A Study Combining Critical Pedagogy, Living Theory and Participatory Action Research
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Jo Matiti
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The connections between critical pedagogy, living theory and participatory action research (PAR) are discussed to explore their combined strength for empowering students, positively impacting on their attitudes towards their mathematics learning and creating social change in their primary-secondary mathematics transitions. This transition is recognised as creating social inequalities which existing transition research has failed to resolve. The interpretation of critical pedagogy, living theory and PAR are described before a summary of their application in a small scale, two-year study in a British curriculum school in Muscat, Oman. Critical pedagogy combined with living theory and PAR provides the theoretical and methodological framework to empower the students epistemologically. This paper gives an example of how PAR with students was conducted within the framework of critical pedagogy theory and living theory methodology. This account provides a valuable reference for participatory action researchers. The paper concludes that the combination of critical pedagogy, living theory and PAR can empower students to create social change.
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6. Wickedity in Onboarding to High-Stress Social Work: An Action Research Study
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Anne Stouby Persson and Line Revsbaek
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Purpose: This paper aims to answer report how mentors who onboard newcomers to a high-stress social work organization can learn about their onboarding practice by treating onboarding as a wicked problem that escapes definitive formulation and final solutions. Design/methodology/approach: The authors follow an action research approach with three iterations of learning about onboarding with mentors in a Danish social work organization struggling with an employee turnover exceeding 30%. Findings: The authors unfold the authors' emerging sensitivity to wickedity over the iterations of learning about onboarding with the mentors. As the authors foreground the wickedity of the authors onboarding in the last iteration, three lessons learned could be derived: it warrants the mentors' continuous inquiry; opens inquiry into the ambivalence of mentoring; and convenes responsibility for inquiry to a community of mentors. Research limitations/implications: This study of problematic onboarding to high-stress social work shows the value of fore-grounding wickedity instead of hiding it with a positive framing. This wickedity rests on situated grounding and is only transferrable to other organizations with the utmost caution. Practical implications: High-stress social work organizations without the capacity to systematically sustain best practices for onboarding may, instead, increase attention to the wickedity of onboarding as a motivation for continuous inquiry by a broader community of mentors. Originality/value: To the best of the authors' knowledge, this paper is the first to present an action research study of problem wickedity to motivate mentors' inquiry into onboarding newcomers to high-stress social work.
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7. 'It Gives Meaning and Purpose to What You Do': Mentors' Interpretations of Practitioner Action Research in Education
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Robert Henthorn, Kevin Lowden, and Karen McArdle
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This paper explores the experience of three mentors working with a group of 12 practitioner action researchers; practitioners who were recipients of an Action Research Grant (ARG) in a programme initiated and managed by the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS). The EIS is a trade union, which represents over 80% of Scotland's teaching professionals. The paper draws on these experiences, the views of participants and the research literature, to illustrate how action research, particularly that which is mentored by experienced colleagues, can empower teachers and enhance their practice to make positive difference to their learners and beyond and so becomes participatory action research (PAR).
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8. Translating Buddhist Mindfulness into Action: Engaging Older Thai Adults in Participatory Action Research
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Nuntiya Doungphummes, Sirintorn Bhibulbhanuvat, and Theeraphong Boonrugsa
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Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to illustrate and discuss the application of mindfulness practices rooted in Buddhism as the methodological praxis in implementing participatory action research (PAR) projects with older Thai adults. Design/methodology/approach: The paper draws on the researchers' reflexive accounts of participatory action conducted with older Thai participants in a series of four PAR projects in the five senior schools located in the northern, southern, northeastern and central regions of Thailand. Findings: The paper demonstrates the translation of Buddhist mindfulness into a PAR methodological approach and shares actual practices of mindfulness in each stage of the research process. Originality/value: This paper provides practical implications for researchers to incorporate the mindfulness methodology to unlock presuppositions and attachments to pre-existing PAR frameworks and open new ways of knowing that emerge out of the lived experience at the present contextual moment.
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9. Pedagogies of Well-Being: A Narrative Perspective to Explore Two English Student-Teachers' Experiences
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Diego Ubaque-Casallas
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This article reports on a series of narrative events extracted from an action research methodology that explores teaching practices and pedagogical experiences to foster well-being in English language student-teachers. Although the study adopted an action research methodology, it does not account for the implementation of the pedagogical process per se. Instead, it resorts to its stages (i.e., planning, reflecting, and acting) to situate the narrative events regarding well-being. The study was conducted in a public university in Bogotá, Colombia, exploring the experiences of two student-teachers at the practicum stage. The purpose was to document narrative events concerning teaching practices and pedagogical experiences implemented to foster well-being. These experiences reveal that student pteachers engage in thought-affective pedagogies or pedagogies of well-being that coexist with traditional language pedagogy, although they are not cognitive-oriented pedagogies. Interestingly, student-teachers could engage in more human pedagogical practice to see the other not as a learning object but as someone who feels and requires attention and care.
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10. A Multi Case Study on the Challenges of Completing Action Research Paper of Master Teachers in Sta. Cruz Elementary School.
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Aranda, Serlita Francia, Miranda, Luisa V., and Romasanta, Maria Riza V.
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MASTER teachers ,ACTION research ,ELEMENTARY schools ,RESEARCH personnel ,INQUIRY-based learning ,EDUCATION research - Abstract
The Department of Education relies on research to make functional decisions that can affect educational practices and resolve significant issues and problems. In addition, the education sector encourages all the teachers to conduct inquiries into their own practices in order to improve teaching and learning, practices and policies through action research. Based on the results of the survey which was answered by the teacher-respondents through the Google Form, the following findings were drawn. Most of the teacher-respondents clearly expressed their insights about action research. They have common perceptions that action research is an initiative which the teachers undertake to seek solutions in the existing problems that the school is experiencing. Likewise, they believe that through action research, the school diagnoses difficulties, and limitations with the goal of addressing the gaps which eventually lead to the improvement of the learners, the teacher, and the whole school community. With regard to the challenges which the teacher-respondents experienced in drafting and completing action research, the three common. The researchers developed an innovation on how to address the challenges of teacher respondents on making an Action Research. It is a workshop entitled CAFE MARS (Capacitate Fellow Educator, More of Action Research Studies). It is a capacity building workshop solely for inquiries about Action Research. This was delivered virtually. After gathering data on the survey, all the controllable factors that were reflected were summarized per category. From these categories, workshop schedule was crafted as to address the variety of circumstances of Master Teachers in making an Action Research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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11. From words to action (research): a new generation of workplace training
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Harikkala-Laihinen, Riikka, Fäldt, Sanna, and Bäckman, Erik
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12. From novice to expert: advancing step-by-step simulation guideline for urban logistics with an open-source simulation tool
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Baalsrud Hauge, Jannicke and Jeong, Yongkuk
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13. Leading impactful research: applying platform thinking to drive collaborative inquiry in the innovation field
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Trabucchi, Daniel, Bellis, Paola, Buganza, Tommaso, Canterino, Filomena, Shani, Abraham B. (Rami), Verganti, Roberto, and Press, Joseph
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14. Illuminating the trans-mediation process: an eye-tracking study of sketching to light painting in design education
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Sahasrabudhe, Keyur, Prakash, Gagan, Gaikwad, Sophia, and Shah, Vijay
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- 2024
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15. Six sigma project generation and selection: an action research study
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Condé, Giovanni Cláudio Pinto, Toledo, José Carlos, and Martens, Mauro Luiz
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16. Co-creation solutions and the three Co’s framework for applying Co-creation
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Pearce, Gemma and Magee, Paul
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17. Modularization for Mastery Learning in CS1: A 4-Year Action Research Study
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Claudio Alvarez, Maira Marques Samary, and Alyssa Friend Wise
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Computer programming is a skill of increasing importance in scientific and technological fields. However, in introductory computer science (CS1) courses in higher education, approximately one in every three students fails. A common reason is that students are overwhelmed by an accelerated and inflexible pace of learning that jeopardizes success. Accordingly, in the computer science education literature it has been suggested that the pedagogical philosophy of 'mastery learning,' which supports students progressing at their own pace, can improve academic outcomes of CS1 courses. Nevertheless, few extended mastery learning implementations in CS1 have been documented in the literature, and there is a lack of guidance and best practices to foster its adoption. In this paper, we present a four-year action research study in which a modular mastery-based CS1 course was designed, evaluated and improved in successive iterations with cohorts of engineering freshmen in a Latin American research university (N = 959). In the first year of the intervention, only 19.3% of students passed the course in their first semester attempting it. In successive iterations, the instructional design, teaching and learning activities, course content, and course management were iteratively improved such that by the fourth year of offering 77.1% of students passed the course in their first semester. Over this period, course attrition was reduced from 25.0% to 3.8% of the cohort, and students' mean time spent in the course decreased from 23.2 weeks (SD = 7.38) to 14.9 (SD = 3.64). Results indicate that modularization for mastery learning is a viable approach for improving academic results in a CS1 course. Practical considerations towards successful implementation of this approach are presented and discussed.
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18. Teacher-Composed Cases of Practice as and for Dissemination, Reflection and Data
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Bronwen Cowie, Suzanne Trask, and Frances Edwards
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The need to make evidence and implications of educational research widely available has prompted a burgeoning interest in knowledge mobilisation, which is a set of strategies supporting the active and intentional dissemination of research knowledge. For this, it is important to consider who might be the intended audience and end-users of this knowledge, as this impacts decisions throughout the research process. Researcher-teacher collaborations are effective contexts for knowledge-building and sharing, where both partners have different but equally valuable roles and contributions to make to the conduct, analysis and dissemination of research. This paper illustrates the value and uses of teacher-composed written and video cases of colleague coaching. The cases were generated as part of the Zooming project, a seven-school, 3-year research-practice partnership focused on developing teachers' data literacy and capacity to coach colleagues in this. To craft the cases, the teachers reflected on their coaching practices and relationships and identified what would be most useful for new coaches to know. The cases proved to be engaging tools for research dissemination, especially to a professional audience. In addition, the case writing challenged teachers to reflect on and analyse their coaching actions and the assumptions they brought to collegial coaching. The cases as data also provided researchers with a deeper level of insights into what teachers viewed as salient when coaching colleagues in data use. Teacher case composition offers a useful approach to knowledge co-production and a pathway to research dissemination by and for teachers and researchers.
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19. Critical Feminist Pedagogy in English Language Education: An Action Research Project on the Implementation of Feminist Views in a German Secondary School
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Kimberly Granger and David Gerlach
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Based on an action research project, this paper provides innovative teaching approaches for ELT to ensure gender equality through critical pedagogy. The qualitative study focuses on the reconstruction of students' perceptions through the analysis of group/peer talk allowing for the display of changing viewpoints after having dealt with feminist issues in class. Given the still limited representation of multiple individuals not only in society but also in secondary ELT coursebooks, critical educational practices have been concerned with the transformation of exclusionary schooling practices for the purpose of ensuring a just and equal future. Critical language education has been known to promote students' autonomy and sense of responsibility when it comes to the abolition of oppression and marginalization. Likewise, feminist approaches have the goal of fostering feminist principles and ethics of gender equality. The study, conducted in a German secondary school, reveals that the majority of learners welcome an exploration of feminist matters in the ELT classroom, because they recognize the significant connection between language learning and the exploration of societal issues. The implementation of critical and feminist ethics helped students become aware of prevailing gender inequalities; and their willingness for societal transformation highlights a visible increase in learner autonomy.
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20. Action learning in public administration education: learning (evidence) from an action research case study
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Venturini, Karen, Capaldo, Guido, Palazzi, Federica, Amatori, Chiara, and Capicchioni, Amos
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21. Scaling for social impact: understanding social innovation through local empowerment strategies
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Rado, Istvan and Nuchpiam, Prapin
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22. Food 4.0 for competing during the COVID-19 pandemic: experimenting digitalization in family firms
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Barile, Domenica, Secundo, Giustina, and Del Vecchio, Pasquale
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23. The needs of carers who support people living with schizophrenia and a substance use disorder: a multiperspective evaluation
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Gaudreault, Karine, Tremblay, Joël, and Bertrand, Karine
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24. Advancing business process management lifecycle implementation through the integration of the design for Six Sigma method
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Kovach, Jamison V., Cardoso-Grilo, Teresa, Cardoso, Madalena, Kalakou, Sofia, and Martins, Ana Lúcia
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25. Strengthening accountability and sustainability reporting: does stakeholder engagement really work? Evidence from the judicial sector
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Fusco, Floriana, Pavone, Pietro, and Ricci, Paolo
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26. Design and development of a digital diagnostic clinical pathway: evidence from an action research study
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Calabrese, Armando, D'Uffizi, Antonio, Levialdi Ghiron, Nathan, Berloco, Luca, Pourabbas, Elaheh, and Proudlove, Nathan
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27. Developing a School-Based Nutrition Education Programme to Transform the Nutritional Behaviours of Basic-Level Schoolchildren: A Case from Participatory Action Research in Nepal
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Yadu R. Upreti, Bhimsen Devkota, Sheri Bastien, and Bal Chandra Luitel
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Nutrition education at school can contribute to developing healthy nutritional behaviours in schoolchildren. This paper critically reflects on how participatory action research (PAR) empowered university researchers and a school community to co-develop a school-based nutrition education programme (SBNEP) that promotes healthy nutritional behaviours in basic-level schoolchildren (Grades 1-8). This study followed PAR as the methodological approach, where university researchers collaborated with the school stakeholders, also called 'co-researchers', to co-develop a SBNEP. This study was conducted in a public school located in the Chitwan district of Nepal from June 2018 to August 2022. The study involved basic-level schoolteachers, fourth to eighth-grade students and their parents/guardians, school leaders, and the PAR committee members as the co-researchers. The study used in-depth interviews, focus groups, participant observation, informal talks, and bridging-the-gap workshop methods. The interpretive phenomenological method was used to explain the meaning of the data. The findings of the study reflect that exploring the needs for good nutritional behaviours, prioritising them, and co-designing the SBNEP utilising the PAR methodology is a time-consuming project since it demands prolonged fieldwork, self-motivation, commitment, action with critical reflection (praxis), dialogic relation, and negotiation skills from both researchers and co-researchers. The study recommends that basic-level schoolteachers and researchers consider applying SBNEP using a participatory framework for transformational change in students' nutritional behaviours.
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28. Improving a Swedish Health Practice for Refugees through Participatory Action Research: Potentials and Constraints
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Anna Fabri and Anna Jobér
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This paper reports on a two-year project focusing on health communicators working with refugees in Sweden. By employing participatory action research and the theory of practice architectures, the study examines a health information practice for newly arrived refugees and highlights its potentials and constraints. The joint meetings that occurred between the participating researcher and the health communicators during the project were the primary source for collaboration, development, and data collection. The findings show that perceptions of limitations due to existing power structures initially hindered the group from experimenting with new activities for the groups of refugees. However, as the communicators gained experience, the conversations in the joint meeting practice changed, which facilitated the action research process. By challenging common working methods, which were initially perceived as causes for concern, the communicators recognised that the concretisation of the health information they wanted to convey could also function as a useful pedagogical tool. The analysis shows that, despite constraints during the working process, the participatory action research practice created a democratic work process which empowered all participants. Collective talks in the communicative space nurtured an architecture that generated new ideas and made it possible to leave the classroom-based teaching situation for new ways of learning about health and physical activity. The findings also show that participatory action research made the communicators aware of their capacity to implement change by offering various movement-based activities that benefited the participating refugees and increased their agency and empowerment.
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29. Defining the Contours of a Participatory Action Research Counterspace Developed by, for, and about Black Women in Higher Education
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Nicole M. West
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Although critical participatory action research (CPAR) has been cited as a means to cultivate more equitable systems in education, its promise has not been fully realized as a mechanism to enhance the experiences of minoritized cultural groups in U.S. higher education. As outsiders within academia who are multiplicatively marginalized, Black women's engagement in CPAR demonstrates unique potential to address this gap. In this paper, I introduce an agentic diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging strategy embedded in a critical action research methodology known as a participatory action research counterspace (PARC). After situating the proposed methodology in existing literature, I describe a PARC study involving a group of Black women students, faculty, staff, and administrators at a predominantly white institution (PWI), as well as the defining contours of the methodology. A discussion outlining the benefits of the PARC methodology for Black women enrolled and employed in higher education is also included.
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30. The 7 C's Framework for Participatory Action Research: Inducting Novice Participant-Researchers
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Angela Feekery
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A key aspect of engaging in a large participatory action research (PAR) project is ensuring that novice participant-researchers have a general understanding of the PAR methodology. Lead researchers experienced in action research cannot expect novice participant-researchers to engage fully with the literature on PAR, but rather need a simple way to ensure their collaborative partners understand the research process they have committed to. This paper presents 'The 7Cs of Participatory Action Research' framework, a clear model that both novice action researchers and participant-researchers could use as a starting point for identifying key action research experts and identifying their own unique PAR approach relevant to their context. The framework provides a brief overview of the literature related to each concept and poses a series of questions that can inform the planning phase of the research so that participant-researchers can visualise putting PAR methodology into practice.
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31. Heavy on the Solidarity, Light on the Adultism: Adult Supports for Youth Activism
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Stephanie C. Serriere and Tennisha Riley
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This data-based theoretical paper explores the contrasting tensions of adults being in "solidarity" with youths while not reproducing systems of oppression through adultism. Written by adults who have been engaged side-by-side with youth activism, the purpose of this article is to better understand what adult solidarity and support look like according to youth activists themselves as we grapple with the unintentional mechanisms of reinforcing oppressive power dynamics between young people and adults in activist communities. Extending on the Gaztambide-Fernández's (2012) notion of "relational solidarity," the findings offer four types of actions (modeling, connecting, supporting, and protecting) adults can do to authentically support youths and thereby adds conceptual clarification and nuance for adults seeking to work in solidarity in more authentic youth adult partnerships (YAPs).
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32. Let's Talk about It: Supporting Novice Teachers through Virtual Conversation Spaces
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Cara Jane Zimon
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The purpose of this Action Research study was to examine, understand, strengthen, and improve how virtual platforms can be used to support the challenges novice teachers face. This document will outline the study's objective for collecting data within the initial stages of this action research study. By fostering deeper relationships between mentors and mentees, we can create a culture of care and concern that supports well-being, promotes learning, and serves as a model for future educators (Lasater et al., 2021). Cycle 1 of the study explores the capabilities of digital platforms to enhance the supervision and mentorship of student teachers beyond conventional in-person methods. This phase engaged ten alumni student teachers and their supervisors in assessing the effectiveness and enrichment potential of virtual support. Cycle 2 expands on this by creating a virtual space for novice educators to share experiences and challenges, facilitated by veteran teachers, thereby removing geographical barriers and fostering a community of mutual support and professional growth. The study employs a comprehensive methodology across both cycles, involving surveys, Zoom session analyses, semi-structured interviews, and a research journal to capture a broad spectrum of experiences and insights. This approach aims to evaluate the impact of virtual conversation spaces on educators' professional well-being and to inspire future research in digital mentorship. Key findings suggest a pivotal role for virtual platforms in revolutionizing mentorship and professional development, highlighting the need for further training in technological tools and the potential of virtual spaces to globalize support for novice teachers. This paper underscores the evolving digital landscape's capacity to facilitate meaningful mentorship and support, contributing to a nurturing and inclusive educational environment. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://www.proquest.com/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]
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33. Essential Elements of Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation: Inside the Black Box of Preschool Expulsion Prevention
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Davis Schoch, Annie, Tidus, Kaela M., Catherine, Evandra, Perry, Deborah F., Duran, Frances, and Rabinovitz, Lauren
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Exclusionary discipline practices differentially harm young children of color. As early childhood education systems seek to close these gaps to ensure all young children have access to high quality early learning experiences, the field requires more evidence-based approaches that can be scaled and replicated. Infant and early childhood mental health consultation (IECMHC) has been associated with lower rates of preschool expulsion; but the field lacks clear guidance on the essential elements of high quality IECMHC. Without such guidance, researchers cannot build a credible evidence base for the causal link between IECMHC and exclusionary discipline. An interdisciplinary research team, with support from the national Center for Excellence in IECMHC, led a consensus-building process to identify the essential activities of IECMHC as implemented across settings. The three-stage Delphi Process resulted in a list of five essential elements and 26 activities that define IECMHC and make concrete its emphasis on relationships and equity. This greater clarity around the activities of IECMHC can help inform future research and evaluation, as well as workforce and professional development. [This paper was published in "Early Childhood Research Quarterly" v66 p24-33 2024.]
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34. Emotion Labor as Professional Development Work: Insights from Teachers Doing Action Research
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Mostafa Nazari, Sedigheh Karimpour, and Mohammadali Ranjbar
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Over the past decades, research on language teachers' engagement in action research (AR) and more recently on their emotion labor has exponentially grown. However, little research is available on how AR and emotion labor intersect to shape language teacher professional development. This study addressed this gap by reporting on how four Iranian English language teachers used emotion labor as professional development work during participation in an AR project. Data were collected from reflective journals and classroom observations as well as the associated postclass discussions during the enactment of AR, and from interviews at two junctures in time, once during the course and once longitudinally after six and 12 months. Data analyses revealed that the teachers used AR as a mechanism for minimizing the gap between their internal feelings and external expectations, and gradually developed the identity of a teacher-researcher by using the affordances emotion labor provided. Moreover, the teachers retrospectively developed emotional learning, which facilitated their response to institutional expectations in the short term and to the professional discourses of teaching in the long term. We conclude the paper with implications for teacher education to better understand how emotions feature in AR and how emotion labor could be employed for AR-induced professional development.
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35. Action Research through Lesson Study: A Space for Learning in Initial Teacher Training
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Laura Pérez Granados, Noelia Alcaraz-Salarirche, Manuel Fernández Navas, and Ana Yara Postigo Fuentes
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The purpose of this paper is to explore the influence of Lesson Study on reconstructing students' practical knowledge during initial training as prospecting teachers. This case study sets out the voice and opinions of a student taking part in a lesson study process. The aim was to further understand how the student's opinions around teaching change both during and after her involvement in the different phases of Lesson Study. Information was obtained through semi-structured interviews, observations, photo and video records, document analysis and field diaries. We were also interested in understanding the student's perception of the influence of mentoring and tutoring on her professional development while accompanying her in her reflection about teaching. The results show that Lesson Study, as a cooperative curriculum creation process, provides prospecting teachers with opportunities to build their identity as professionals within a network of peers in which they interact in order to learn together. Focused on the context of initial teacher training, this article could lead to a new approach to Lesson Study as a strategy that can bring about more relevant transformations while teachers' beliefs, values and dispositions are still at an early stage of construction.
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36. Designing a Framework to Improve Critical Reflection Writing in Teacher Education Using Action Research
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Mark Fraser, Anthony Wotring, Corinne A. Green, and Michelle J. Eady
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Critical reflection writing in teacher education programmes is often undertaken without appropriate learning support despite the contribution it makes to informing meaningful changes in the early stages of their teaching careers. Students' attempts at writing critical reflections often lack discursive depth when connecting theory to practice. However, teaching academics may also need to develop conceptual knowledge of critical reflection as a genre of writing to better inform teaching practices. This paper reports on a small-scale action research project which draws on a cohort of student voices to guide the creation of learning resources focused on critical reflection writing. Narrative frame style surveys and focus group discussions were used to explore students' understanding of reflection, critical reflection, and ways learning resources assist development of critical reflection writing abilities The students' responses informed the development of targeted learning resources to support critical reflection writing, and to raise their conceptual knowledge of critical reflection that may inform effective teaching practices. An implication from this study is the need to explore further ways to embed critical reflection discourse throughout teacher education so both teaching academics and students develop a common understanding of this important concept and its role in teacher education.
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37. Teachers' Research Diaries -- Reflection and Reconnection in Times of Social Isolation
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Martin Johnson and Victoria Coleman
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In response to the spread of COVID-19 in early 2020, schools across the UK moved to virtual teaching arrangements for the majority of their learners. Some localized school closures occurred in England in February 2020, with a national lockdown following in March 2020. Although relaxed in June 2020, concerns about rising cases of the virus led to a second period of enforced school closure across the UK in January 2021. With no sign of the pandemic abating, we wanted to gain insights into teachers' experiences at this unique time. We used a solicited diary method with teachers over a 4-month period to reflect on workload and wellbeing issues related to their changing teaching practices. The diaries were supplemented by a series of teacher interviews. In this paper, we carry out a critical reflection of diary use. We observe how diaries provide a structure for eliciting ideas in an ordered way, and which then become a resource for a teacher's professional reflection. This process also appears to strengthen some of the social connections that were compromised during the social distancing periods of the pandemic, and which has benefits for teachers' wellbeing.
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38. Fostering Youth-Enabling Environments: A Participatory Affordance-Capability Framework for the Development and Use of Youth-Engaged Environmental Assessments
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Jaffe, Julia and Loebach, Janet
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This paper proposes a new conceptual approach to the development and utilization of youth-led environmental assessments to inform the planning of youth-enabling environments. Interdisciplinary research has established the influential effects of the physical environment on children and adolescents' well-being and development, yet there is a gap in our understanding of how to create everyday environments for youth that speak to their needs and interests and provide opportunities for them to flourish. Engaging youth through participatory action research to both develop and conduct environmental assessments can have positive implications for youth empowerment and well-being while also altering research and planning practices to effectively integrate youth voice. The proposed approach integrates elements from affordance theory, the Capability Approach, and positive youth development within a youth participatory action research framework to create a process that encourages capability formation, fosters positive development, and improves our understanding of what constitutes a youth-enabling environment.
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39. Exploring Alternative Discourses about Datafication in a Speculative Youth Participatory Action Research Curriculum
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Ezequiel Aleman
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Purpose: This paper aims to address the limitations in designing educational approaches that apply critical approaches to data literacy, given the obscure nature of digital platforms, which leave youth unable to develop discourses that challenge dominant narratives about the role of data in their lives. The purpose of this study is to propose and evaluate a critical data literacy approach that empowers youth to engage with data from a sociocultural perspective using a speculative participatory research approach that affords opportunities to develop alternative discourses. Design/methodology/approach: This is a multiple-case study that involves five alternative schools in Uruguay which implemented the Nayah-Irú curriculum over ten weeks leading to the development of six distinct research projects about the materialization of data in youth lives. The curriculum incorporates an alternate reality game (ARG) to engage youth in critical data literacy, based on the principles of Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) epistemology and Speculative Civic Literacies. Findings: The findings of this study highlight the integration of speculative storytelling and real-life experiences in developing alternative discourses about datafication. The analysis revealed instances of discursive closure among the youth, but through the curriculum's speculative fiction elements, such as the narrative of Nayah-Irú, emotional connections were formed, leading to increased engagement, critical inquiry, and problem framing. Research limitations/implications: The study conducted on the Nayah-Irú curriculum shows its effectiveness in engaging youth and educators in critical data literacy by affording opportunities for youth to engage in the analysis of their personal data literacies in an alternative world. Bringing speculative approaches to data literacy can open new avenues for exploring data literacy with youth in ways that center their voices and help them overcome different forms of discursive closure. Originality/value: This study offers new insights into critical data literacy education blending youth participatory action research epistemologies with a speculative literacies framework to support youth in developing alternative discourses regarding the role of data in their lives.
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40. Exploring Possibilities for Participatory Approaches to Contextualized Teaching and Learning: A Case from a Public School in Nepal
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Shree Krishna Wagle, Bal Chandra Luitel, and Erling Krogh
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This paper reflects upon and discusses the case of a participatory action research project in a public school in Nepal with the aim of exploring the possibilities for participatory approaches to contextualised teaching and learning. We discuss how research-degree students and school stakeholders involved in participatory needs assessment identified the need for contextualised teaching and learning and the participatory and generative model of contextualised teaching and learning we initiated in response. However, at the end of three different participatory action research (PAR) cycles, we came to an understanding that, for sustainable pedagogical reforms, even buzz words like 'participatory' and 'shifts in perspectives' have some limitations. In a bureaucratic schooling structure, like that in Nepal, pedagogical innovations for contextualised teaching and learning have to negotiate pre-structured schooling cultures, and therefore, any change in individual and group perspectives has to be accompanied by a shift in regular schooling design, from linear closedness to ecological openness. Otherwise, the innovations for contextualised teaching and learning are unlikely to be sustained in the face of the dominant practice architecture.
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41. Illuminating the Trans-Mediation Process: An Eye-Tracking Study of Sketching to Light Painting in Design Education
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Keyur Sahasrabudhe, Gagan Prakash, Sophia Gaikwad, and Vijay Shah
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Purpose: This study is an "Action-Research-based" bridge that connects sketching and photographic processes. The article's objective encompasses designing, assessing and validating a perceived difference between sketching and photography through a structured task by ensuring the systematic creation and implementation of the assignments. This study is part of a larger research project exploring the differences between thinking about sketching and final photographic outcomes. Design/methodology/approach: This experimental mixed-method methodology was collected in three phases: the creation phase, where participants were asked to sketch and photograph a balanced composition; the evaluation phase, where the sketches and photographs were evaluated by "Self, Peer, and Independent" reviewers for their perceived differences. An analysis of variance (ANOVA) was implemented to test the result. In the validation phase, eye-tracking technology is applied to understand the subconscious eye movements of individuals. Findings: This study of 37 samples has helped develop a self-study model in photography, as students have learnt to evaluate themselves critically. This experience will help students be active and reflective learners, thus increasing attention and retention in their course, specifically "Photography Design Education". A pedagogical approach by design instructors for practical, student-friendly, process-oriented assignments for their photography courses in higher education. Originality/value: The trans-mediation process requires cognition amongst different mediums, such as pencil and paper for sketching and light for light painting. Photography courses in design education need knowledge of the photo/light medium, contrasting with the understanding of sketching/drawing. Exploring and addressing research gaps for transforming and designing assignments based on adaptive understanding presents an exciting opportunity.
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42. Enhancing Academic Student Engagement in Vocational Agricultural Education: Why Course Design Matters
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Kevin Cunningham, Monica Gorman, and James Maher
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This paper considers the influence of course design on the capability of a vocational college to implement a student-centred learning approach to enhance academic student engagement. It is based on an action research project involving a course redesign within a vocational agricultural education setting that created a more student-centred approach and in turn enhanced academic student engagement compared to its traditional delivery. Phase 1 of research looked at academic student engagement in a traditional lecture format utilising a multi-methodological analysis. This analysis identified that one type of module presented a significant challenge with 0/16 classes rated as 'high engagement', primarily due to the subject content. Phase 2 redesigned a module of this type using a more student-centred learning approach to evaluate if this could enhance academic student engagement. Observations carried out on 24 classes of the redesigned module rated 21/24 as 'high engagement'. The redesign process enabled the use of a more student-centred learning approach albeit limited by requirements to comply with traditional quality assurance requirements of the current course design. This action research contributes a greater understanding of how the principles of course design need to be considered in seeking to enhance academic student engagement in vocational education.
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43. English language teacher trainers’ capacity building in sustainable development goals through MOOCs
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Canaran, Özlem and Bayram, İlknur
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44. Toward an enhanced methodology to mitigate challenges of applying participatory action research in managing innovation projects
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Mehrabioun Mohammadi, Mohammad
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45. CODESIGNING MEANINGFUL ENGAGEMENT WITH ONLINE COURSE READINGS: IMPLICATIONS FOR TEACHING MANAGEMENT COURSES.
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ZEIVOTS, SANDRIS and SHALAVIN, COURTNEY ANN
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ONLINE education ,DIGITAL technology ,MANAGEMENT education ,STUDENT engagement ,ACTION theory (Psychology) ,ACTION research ,GROUNDED theory - Abstract
This paper reconceptualizes student engagement with course readings in management education. We challenge the perception of assigned readings as a solely student-centered issue, and propose a codesign approach that emphasizes the relational and intersubjective nature of various stakeholders contributing to the engagement design. The paper extends prior research by identifying concepts of quality of participation, connecting practices, and digital engagement that impact meaningful engagement with course readings. Grounded in action research theory, we propose a framework to design meaningful student engagement that is structured around six dimensions: (1) usefulness, (2) enjoyment, (3) quantity, (4) access, (5) intent, and (6) participative integration. These dimensions are entangled and viewed through three lenses: (a) what, (b) how, and (c) why. This paper presents theoretical and practical contributions, and importantly offers a paradigm shift in how educators and educational developers can enhance engagement with course readings in management education and beyond. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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46. Promoting intercultural and transcultural awareness through a telecollaboration programme in Indonesia.
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Vinanda, Leviana
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LITERATURE reviews ,AWARENESS ,ENGLISH language ,LANGUAGE awareness ,TELEPSYCHIATRY - Abstract
This paper describes a study that examined the affordances of an intercultural programme of telecollaboration to promote the intercultural and transcultural awareness of adolescent learners in Indonesia. Baker's (2015, 2022) model of twelve components of intercultural and transcultural awareness is applied to investigate the development of the learners' awareness as a result of their engagement in the programme. This paper begins with a review of the literature on intercultural and transcultural awareness in English Language Teaching and the description of a framework that is suitable for fostering awareness in the classroom through intercultural telecollaboration. Then, the discussion moves to the study that has been conducted following the guidelines and the features influencing an intercultural telecollaboration programme developed by Hoffstaedter and Kohn (2015), which provides a holistic framework not only for conducting pedagogical research, but also for designing an intercultural telecollaboration programme that aligns with the characteristics of the classroom context. Finally, the findings are contrasted with Baker's model in order to understand the extent to which the intercultural telecollaboration programme has promoted the learners' intercultural and transcultural awareness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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47. Exploring a process‐relational approach to qualitative research methods for sustainability science.
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Mancilla García, María, Abunge, Caroline, Bandeira, Salomão Olinda, Cheupe, Christopher, Combane, Dadivo José, Daw, Tim, Drury O'Neill, Elizabeth Maria, Hertz, Tilman, Mubai, Marlino, Muthiga, Nyawira, Sonetti González, Taís, and Shauri, Halimu
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QUALITATIVE research ,ACTION research ,COLLECTIVE action ,PERIODICAL articles ,RESEARCH personnel - Abstract
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48. The future as a public good: decolonising the future through anticipatory participatory action research.
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Bourgeois, Robin, Karuri-Sebina, Geci, and Feukeu, Kwamou Eva
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COMMUNITY-based participatory research ,SWARM intelligence ,ACTION research ,COLONIZATION ,PRIVATE clubs - Abstract
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to nurture reflections on the colonization of the future in the present with a particular focus on Africa. This paper aims at exploring how participatory research and particularly anticipatory action research can contribute to a decolonising process. Design/methodology/approach: Considering the future as a public good, this paper develops a reflection on the colonization processes that can turn it into a club or a private good. This paper mobilizes the notions of participatory knowledge production and local action research as a way to decolonize the future and empower imagination. This paper revisits the tenets of participatory action research as a means to achieve this objective and discusses the main features of a non-colonial anticipatory action research in the context of African futures. Findings: This paper highlights the challenges associated with connecting anticipatory endeavours focusing on action research, the creation of collective intelligence and co-design, with the intention of encouraging the decolonisation process. It includes design principles and anticipates a possible process of counter-decolonization. Research limitations/implications: This is a conceptual paper, which does not provide field-tested evidence. Yet, the authors hope it serves as an input enabling to design methodologies that will prevent the colonisation of the future when engaging in future-oriented research activities in Africa and elsewhere. Originality/value: This paper provides an integral approach to the colonisation of the future, as a renewed old question. This paper also connects this process with a reflection on the nature of what could be non-colonizing anticipatory action research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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49. Co-creation framework for designing social service ecosystems.
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Koppel, Kaie
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DIGITAL technology ,INNOVATION management ,DEEP learning ,TECHNOLOGICAL innovations ,ARTIFICIAL intelligence - Abstract
Social services are complex ecosystems, requiring close collaboration of multiple stakeholders across public agencies, levels of governance and from among the wider 'community of care'. There is also some evidence from the service design practice suggesting that often service flaws are not flaws in the services but rather failures of cooperation between stakeholders interacting directly or indirectly to provide the care needed by the person. Design and management of cross-agency and cross-sector horizontal networks are therefore as important in leading social service innovation as designing individual journeys, experiences, or specific service blueprints. This paper presents an aspect of an ongoing practice-oriented research project aimed at the development and testing of applied framework and toolkit to facilitate the collaboration in service networks and communities of care. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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50. Conducting responsible research in hospitality management with greater societal impact.
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Pereira-Moliner, Jorge and Molina-Azorín, José F.
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Purpose: This study aims to highlight the importance of developing academic research in tourism and hospitality management into a more responsible approach, applying a multistakeholder model. This multistakeholder approach forces the tourist community to be considered when identifying the gaps and impacts of academic research. Design/methodology/approach: This study suggests action research as one of the appropriate methodological approaches for conducting responsible research, as action research allows challenges to be overcome through the interaction of researchers and stakeholders. Principles of responsible research are indicated and exemplar studies that use action research are described. Findings: Proposals and recommendations for responsible research are identified, such as demand-driven research, action research as a methodological approach and a way to address societal challenges, and the importance of considering the research ecosystem. In addition, some advantages (funding, reputation and legitimacy) and barriers (resources and publication) of responsible research are explained. Practical implications: Practical implications are described. Conducting responsible research is oriented toward identifying real practical implications proposed and validated by the tourist community instead of being proposed solely by the researchers. Social implications: This paper emphasizes the need to work together with the tourist community and their stakeholders to enhance the real societal impact of academic research in tourism and hospitality management. Originality/value: The authors would like to raise a self-critical debate for the future enrichment of research in the tourism industry. Research in this industry can contribute to solving significant societal problems. Responsible research can help scholars to be part of the solution to these challenges, working together with different tourism stakeholders. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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