E-News - 7 April 2021

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In this e-News:

• Registrations now open for Webinar: Enabling Leadership Capacity for Higher Education Scholarship in Learning and Teaching (SOTL) through Action Research - 14 May


• Planned Webinars (to be confirmed)
  • Action Learning / Action Research for Climate Action
  
  
  • Getting Your Paper Published
  
  
   


 

ALARA Events

Webinar Confirmed

Registrations for Enabling Leadership Capacity for Higher Education Scholarship in Learning and Teaching (SOTL) through Action Research - 14 May 2021
Registrations are now open for this webinar, to be presented by Marina Harvey and Sandra Jones. ALARA members can attend at no cost, but registration is required.

The webinar focuses on a distributed leadership approach for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SOTL) enabled by, and researched through, AR. Discussion and findings are presented through the lens of 20 funded Australian AR projects that used distributed leadership to build capacity for SOTL.

The webinar will be held at 11.00 am on Friday 14 May 2021 (Australian Eastern Standard Time). Please see here for full details for the webinar.

Webinars To Be Confirmed

ALARA is finalising arrangements for two other webinars over coming months.

Action Learning / Action Research for Climate Action - How can Action Learning / Action Research enhance climate action?

Ernie Stringer, who recently released the fifth edition of his book, Action Research, will be leading this exploratory workshop / webinar. Originally planned for April, ALARA has had to delay the webinar. We anticipate running this webinar in late May or early June, with the date to be confirmed in the next couple of weeks.

How can action learning and action research assist in the process of climate action and extend and enhance the efforts of those already undertaking climate action? What is being done in climate action using collaborative / participative methods such as action learning and action research, and what further could be done? Can ALARA's members and volunteers support future climate action initiatives?

Getting Your Paper Published

ALARA is working with representatives of several action learning / action research publications, and one initiative of that work is this webinar, with a morning and an evening session to capture participants from around the world. The group of representatives are now loking at a short series, so the date remains a work-in-progress.

More information about these webinars will be announced in coming weeks. We hope you will join us.

If you would like to assist, or present at a webinar, please send your ideas or offer of help to admin[at}alarassociation.org.

ALARA News

ALAR Journal Published

The Action Learning and Action Research Journal Volume 26 No. 2 has now been published. Members can access articles from the Journal site or Informit database, or the whole issue from the Publications pages.

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Invitation to Assist ALARA

ALARA's Board has identified a range of activities and they are seeking people willing to assist in delivering these activities. Examples of these activities include:

• As mentioned above, several ideas for webinars have been floated.


• Several members are involved in research, with at least two other projects on the horizon. The alliance with GCWAL (see below) also supports further research.


• The recognition of First Nations People and supporting their work in action learning and action research is another exciting opportunity.


 

If you would like to know more, or want to assist, please contact ALARA.

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Journal Site Renewal

The old Journal site has been replaced and is located at https://alarj.alarassociation.org.

You can access the new site, just like the old site. Your original login and password will be the same, but please note, the main site and Journal site have different logins, and if you had different user names and passwords, that will continue.

If you cannot access the Journal site properly, please email admin@alarassociation.org.

Old ALARA Site

The old ALARA site (alara.net.au) is written in old code, and has not been updated for several years. ALARA will be removing that site in coming weeks. People registered on the site have been sent an email, encouraging them to copy anything they wish to keep from the site before it closes.

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Action Learning and Action Research Journal published

A Special Issue of the ALAR Journal containing papers from the CARN-ALARA Conference in 2019 has been published.

Members (after logging on) can access individual articles on the Journal website and the whole issue on the latest Journals page.

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Action Learning Facilitator and Action Learning Practitioner Programmes

The alliance between ALARA and the Global Centre for Work-Applied Learning (GCWAL) includes the introduction of new professional certifications as Action Learning Facilitators and Action Learning Practitioners, co-badged by ALARA and GCWAL. Information about the programmes are available on the GCWAL website and the linked brochures.

The alliance also provides support to ALARA to develop research in action learning and action research. More news will come on research initiatives under the alliance.

If you would like to know more, please see the GCWAL website or the ALARA website.

Other Events and Information

The full list of these activities is
available here.

 

Evaluative Study of Action Research Book Published

The Evaluative Study of Action Research presents all eight published papers as part of the six-year, global, Evaluative Study of Action Research (ESAR) in one volume. The study sought to enhance the academic rigour of Action Research (AR) and provide greater evidence of its impact. Many ALARA people have contributed to this book. See here for more information.

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  ARNA News
  ARNA is conducting their next conference in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico in June 2021. They have also released the latest STAR (Supporting Teaching of Action Research) newsletter.



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  AR+ ARTful coCreativity coLAB
  
  AR+ are holding an ARTful coCreativity coLAB commencing on May 18, 2021 online, and then each third Tuesday of the month for nine months. See here for more information as well as information from the ECORetreat held on March 5-8, 2021.



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  CARN Conference 2021
  
  CARN is holding its 2021 conference on 1-3 October 2021.

   

  CARN Praxis
  
  CARN has launched a new publishing opportunity - a rich and collaborative space for voices to be heard more publicly.



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  CEEMAN - International Management Teachers Academy
  
  The International Association for Management Development in Dynamic Societies has rescheduled the IMTA to June 2021.



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  EURAM 2021 Conference
  
  The EURAM 2021 Conference - Reshaping capitalism for a sustainable world has been announced as an online event and is scheduled for 16-18 June 2021.



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  PRIA International Academy
  PRIA International Academy is offering several online courses.



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  World Education Research Association
  WERA has a Focal Meeting on 7-9 July 2021. WERA also offers mentoring for doctoral and early career scholars, and is calling for proposals by 1 February 2021 for an International Research Network.



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  Call for Papers for Special AR issue of International Journal of Managing Projects in Business
  
  The International Journal of Managing Projects in Business, a Quartile 1 journal in Scimagio, is inviting papers using action research including its variants such as engaged scholarship, action design research, collaborative research, participatory action research, design science research, with submissions due in September 2021. A short proposal is required by April 2021.



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  SPARC Participatory Research Courses
  SPARC (Swedish Participatory Action Research Community) and Mälardalen University are offering two Participatory Research courses online over four course days over six months, commencing 19 April.