ALARA News - March 2025

Hello ALARA member

11th Action Learning Action Research and 15th Participatory Action Research World Congress

Putting Global Collaboration at the Heart of Action Research

The World Congress Organising Committee has announced a Call for Papers for the World Congress, and World Congress page is now available on the ALARA website.

The World Congress will be at:

• Auckland University of Technology Sports Performance Research Institute NZ on 18th and 19th September 2025
• University of Technology Sydney on 23rd and 24th September 2025
• Medici di Makati College Manila on 30th September and 1st October 2025
• and online on the above dates.

ALARA is in discussions with representatives from another South-East Asia country to join this World Congress. It welcomes other AL / AR networks who wish to participate and invites them to contact the Organising Committee via admin@alarassociation.org.

Proposal submissions close on 30 June 2025. Early-bird registrations will open on 1 April.

New Monograph

ALARA has published a new monograph - Empowering Co-Agency for Establishing Visionary Strategists by Geetu Bhanot. ALARA members can access the electronic version here (after logging into the ALARA site). You can purchase a printed copy by emailing Bernadette.

Action Learning and Action Research Journal

Reviewers

The annual invitation to ALARj reviewers to confirm their availability produced about 40 responses, and the Editorial Team thanks these reviewers. If you would like to assist in the production of the Journal (or other publications), please email Bernadette to volunteer.

Call for Papers - Special Issue on the Transformative Potential of Curriculum Practice on Climate Change through Action Research

Action Learning, Action Research Association (ALAR Association) invites submission of papers for a special issue for the ALAR Journal dedicated to exploring the transformative potential of integrating curriculum practices into climate change education through action research. Submissions close on 9th May 2025. Please see here for the full description of the Call.

Developing AREOL into a MOOC

The ALARA team working on developing Bob Dick’s AREOL course into a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) version have seen the first module (and it looks great!).

The team would appreciate critical friends who would be willing to:

• Review content for a module (2 hours) and provide constructive feedback
• Review an online module (2 hours) and provide constructive feedback
• Provide suggestions for new content or modules

If you are able to act as a critical friend this year, please contact dr.marina.harvey@gmail.com.

Action Learning / Action Research Calendar

The ALARA webpage with Action Learning and Action Research news and events continues to be updated, as does the AL / AR calendar of events. Please send any news for us to add to the webpage and the AL/AR Calendar so that all can see what is happening in the AL/AR communities. If you have any items, please contact ALARA.

How Can You Help?

ALARA Is a volunteer-run organisation. The Board welcomes any offers of assistance, from reviewers of papers submitted for publication, to assisting any of our areas of activity - see the Committees Group for descriptions of these areas. Note: you do not have to be a Co-ordinator. ALARA needs people who can offer an hour a month, an hour a day, or anything between (even a day every so often). Later this year, the Board will also invite members to join in a strategic planning process.

Colin Bradley
President