Acting to Learn and Learning to Act: Podcast
The MethodSpace focus for October 2020 was on Action Research. Mentors-in-Residence were Ernie Stringer and Alfredo Ortiz Aragon, co-authors of a new edition of the text Action Research.
In this Action Research podcast episode, Adam Stieglitz and Joe Levitan speak with Adam’s close friend, professor, and mentor, Dr. Alfredo Ortiz Aragón, an Action-Researcher and Associate Professor in the PhD Program at the Dreeben School of Education at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, Texas, and co-author of Action Research (Fifth Edition) with Ernie Stringer.
During the discussion, Alfredo shares his journey into the Action Research field (4:05), and how he became an action researcher. He then discusses experiences in the then ‘Participation Power and Social Change team’ at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) at the University of Sussex in the UK, where he learned about the critical side of Action Research (6:35): “These experiences exposed me to a broader world of power and… the critical side of the work that we were doing.” The discussion then switches gears to analyze Action Research as a field, with Joe playing “hard ball” with Alfredo in a "lightning round" to address pressing questions and dig deeper into current issues about Action Research (7:49).
More Methodspace posts from this series about Action Research
Using action research to understand Covid-19 experiences, a guest post by Hege Gravdahl Garelius.
The 11 co-authors of “Self-in-Field Action Research in Natural Spaces of Encounter: Inclusion, Learning, and Organizational Change” discuss their research.
Read this interesting post by Tineke Abma, Barbara Groot, Alie Weerman, Frederiek Overbeek, part of the Action Research series for October 2020.
Read this guest post about collaboration and action research by Melissa Parenti.
Learn about action research from Ernie Stringer and Alfredo Ortiz Aragon, co-authors of a new book on this important methodology.
Learn about how action researcher Ros Beadle invited Aboriginal women to tell their own stories.
Find the entire collection of posts from the October 2020 series on action research!
Listen to a podcast interview with Dr. Alfredo Ortiz Aragón.
Watch this discussion of embodied and sentient action research methods with Iñigo Retolaza Eguren.
Action research and evaluation are inter-related topics in this guest post and video from Marina Apgar and Mieke Snijder.
A discussion about engaging participants in action research in a social work context.
See this interview with Ernie Stringer and Geoff Mills to learn how he applies action research in educational contexts.
View this discussion of participatory action research methods with Ernie Stringer and Susan Young.
View a conversation between Antonio Boyd and Dr. Cherese Childers-McKee about inclusion and action research.
Learn about how key action research principles allow for inclusion of marginalized people in this presentation from Alfredo Ortiz Aragon.
View a conversation between Ernie Stringer and long-time collaborator Darryl Kickett.
Learn more about the new edition of Action Research from Ernie Stringer and Alfredo Ortiz Aragon.
In this guest post Catherine Collins describes ways to put action research principles into practice.