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Welcome to ALARA's regular e-News of activities, events and information
for the Action Learning / Action Research Community.
Your contributions to this fortnightly bulletin are welcome. Please send any items to admin@alarassociation.org
In this e-News:
- Commencement of Call for Proposals for ALARA-BALT 2020 Australasian Conference
- Brisbane Conversation with Bob Dick
- Sydney Event Coming Soon
- Return of Editor for ALARA Monographs
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Commencement of Call for Proposals for ALARA-BALT 2020 Australasian Conference
The Organising Committee is pleased to announce the commencement of the Call for Submission of Proposals. The conference theme is Discovering the Future Together: Action Learning and Action Research at Work. Details about the streams are available here. Registrations will open in March.
The Organising Committee is planning to have site visits on Wednesday 11 November, so the conference dates are likely to be extended: 8th to 11th November 2020.
If you would like to help review submissions for the conference, please contact Chivonne Algeo, ALARA's Vice-President Australasia.
For more information, please see the conference web page.
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Brisbane Conversation with Bob Dick
The next Conversations event is on 13 February 2020, with Bob Dick: What is ALAR and what can it do for me?. Click here for the event's flyer (28 Kb).
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Sydney Event Coming Soon
ALARA is working with the team that conducted the Evaluation Study on Action Research. A announcement about an event to hear about and discuss the results of the study will be made shortly.
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AREOL course commences in February
Twice a year, ALARA offers the Action Research and Evaluation Online (AREOL) program, with excellent facilitation by Bob Dick. The next program commences in February 2020. You can find out more here.
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Return of Editor for ALARA Monographs
Eileen Piggot-Irvine has kindly offered to return to her former role as Editor of the ALARA Monographs. Eileen edited the first five of these Monographs until 2015.
Monographs are longer papers - usually 8,000 to 20,000 words - but of similar standard to papers submitted to the Action Learning and Action Research Journal and are subjected to double-blind reviews before publishing.
Members are encouraged to submit, or encourage others to submit, papers for publication as Monographs by emailing them to the editor.
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Printing of ALARA publications
Early in 2019, Sydney University Press (SUP), who had been printing ALARA publications for several years, advised that they had to stop that service. The University had directed SUP to concentrate on University-generated publications. In about June 2019, ALARA's publications were removed from SUP's site.
For most of 2019, ALARA has been seeking a replacement printing service. The Board has agreed on the following arrangements.
- For newly printed copies of the Action Learning and Action Research Journal and ALARA Monograph series, ALARA has arranged for Ingram Spark to produce and post copies on a print-on-demand basis. Ingram Spark is a worldwide distributor for publications. It can arrange for ALARA's publications to be available through online book distributors, including Amazon (these distributors have to decide to take on the publications, so we will have to wait to see if any decide to provide ALARA publications).
These printed versions will become available during the next month or so, and we will provide more details as they become available.
- Previously printed copies of some of the issues of the Action Learning and Action Research Journal are available now. Details will be provided via the ALARA website in coming weeks.
- Electronic copies of the Action Learning and Action Research Journal are available through several methods.
- Individual articles of the Action Learning and Action Research Journal are available to members via the Journal website.
- ALARA supplies copies of the Action Learning and Action Research Journal to Informit and EBSCO for loading in their search sites, where the public can access individual articles. Members can access the Informit site free of charge after logging into the ALARA site - more details here.
- ALARA loads the entire issue of each Action Learning and Action Research Journal on its website, and members can access all issues, while the public can access all but the last twelve months of publications.
- ALARA also loads the Monographs on its website, again with a restriction for the last twelve months.
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Publications
Members can access the Action Learning and Action Research Journal via the Journal website. Both the Journal and Monographs are available on the ALARA website.
The latest Monograph is by Eileen Piggot-Irvine, Wendy Rowe and Lesley Ferkins, entitled Thumbs Up for Action Research in Case Studies from the Evaluation Study of Action Research. The latest issue of the Action Learning and Action Research Journal has recently been published on the Journal website and will be soon available on the ALARA website for members.
Eileen Piggot-Irvine, our Monographs Editor, welcomes submission of Monographs by emailing the editor. For further information please see the Monograph submission guidelines.
ALARA has published the Action Learning and Action Research Journal for 24 years, and you are invited to submit papers for the 2020 issues. Please visit the ALARj on the Journal website or see the submission guidelines on ALARA's website for more information.
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Administation Assistance Requested
Action Learning, Action Research Association Ltd is seeking assistance in three roles, which could be performed by one, two or three people. These roles are Minute Secretary, Membership Administrator and Administration Support.
- Minute Secretary: The Minute Secretary may attend meetings of the Board (usually 11 per year), and does attend meetings of the Committees Group (between 6 and 10 per year) and the Annual General Meeting.
- Membership Administrator: The Membership Administrator supports the Membership Co-ordinator, Publications Co-ordinator and Committees Group on all matters related to the management of the ALARA membership.
- Administration Support: The Administration Support supports the Board on all matters related to the general administration of ALARA.
Each role requires between about 2 and 10 hours per month. A full description of the work is available here. ALARA will consider applicants in a volunteer or paid capacity.
ALARA also have a number of important initiatives for which we are seeking assistance. These initiatives include developing a marketing plan, helping to create local networks or conversation events in any location where members wish to meet, approaching organisations that utilise Action Learning / Action Research that may wish to support ALARA and its activities, and developing relationships with organisations that will provide benefits to members and the wider Action Learning / Action Research community. A description of the initiatives is available here.
If you would like to discuss these roles or initiatives, or would like to undertake one or more of them, please contact ALARA (admin@alarassociation.org or president@alarassociation.org).
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Other Events and Information
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Canadian Journal of Action Research Special Issue
The CJAR has announced a call for submissions for a special theme issue: Action Research and Indigenous Ways of Knowing. Submissions close on 1 October 2020. A flyer about the call is available here.
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The Transformative Potential of Action Learning in Community-based Research for Social Action
A new article published by Action Learning: Research and Practice and written by Ortrun Zuber-Skerritt, Lesley Wood and Judith Kearney is available here. A free download is available to the first fifty people accessing the article.
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International Management Teachers Academy
The International Association for Management Development in Dynamic Societies is conducting the International Management Teachers Academy from 14-25 June 2020 in beautiful Bled, Slovenia. Early bird registration ends on 15 February. Please see here for more information.
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AR+ Co-Labs
AR+ Foundation are commencing two Co-Labs in coming months.
Developmental Leadership at Our Time of Eco-Social Crisis. This Co-lab starts in February. See here for more details.
Design and Writing. This Co-lab starts in April. See here for more details.
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EURAM 2020 Conference - The Business of Now
The 2020 conference of EURAM (European Academy of Management) will be held in Dublin Ireland on 10-12 June 2020. The theme is The Business of Now: the future starts here. More information is available here.
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WERA Focal Meeting Call for Submissions extended to 18 February 2020
Please click here for the Call for Submissions for the World Education Research Association (WERA) Focal Meeting to be held in Santiago de Compostela, Spain from 1 to 3 July 2020. WERA is an association of major national, regional, and specialty education research associations dedicated to sharing scholarship, developing networks, and mutually supporting capacity building.
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International Action Learning Conference 2020 - Action Learning and Social Action
The International Action Learning Conference 2020 will be held in Plymouth UK on 6-8 April 2020. Click here to download a brochure, or for more information visit here.
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Call for the Organisational Learning, Knowledge and Capabilities (OLKC) 2020 Conference
The Call for the Organisational Learning, Knowledge and Capabilities (OLKC) 2020 Conference is now open at their website. This conference takes place from 21st to 24th April 2020 in Copenhagen (DK). More information is available here.
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Educational Institutions Building Design
In his latest Randon Reflections, Rajesh Tandon has asked a very interesting question. He states:
It is generally acknowledged that design of physical space significantly influences human interactions. Most educational institutions have large lecture halls, seminar rooms, conference auditoriums; yet, almost all of them are designed for one-way interactions in teaching from the ‘master’. These days, interactive learning and dialogical methods are being promoted in educational institutions; yet, old-fashioned design of physical spaces continues even in new campuses and buildings. Why?
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