Collaborative action research provides opportunities for teachers and educational researchers to develop classroom practice as a joint achievement. In this paper, we reflect upon experiences from two extensive action research projects aimed at improving the practice of science inquiry at upper secondary schools. We experienced two main challenges regarding the processes: transitioning from the ...

Collaborative governance draws from diverse realms of practice and research in public administration. This article synthesizes and extends a suite of conceptual frameworks, research findings, and practice-based knowledge into an integrative framework for collaborative governance. The framework specifies a set of nested dimensions that encompass a larger system context, a collaborative governanc...

The existence of ritual abuse is the subject of much debate. Ritual abuse survivor perceptions of seeking help have not been explored, and studies have yet to utilize self-defined survivors as collaborative researchers. This study addresses both issues. Participatory action research was utilized to design a survey and semistructured interview to investigate ritual abuse survivor experience of s...

Community-based and participatory research methods challenge many commonly held beliefs regarding the basic nature of research and the ethics that inform our research practices. Action research, the term commonly used to refer to a broad range of these more collaborative research approaches, “seeks to bring together action and reflection, theory and practice, in participation with others, in th...

The disparity between post-secondary STEM instruction and the practices suggested in education cognitive research is not a novel issue. Despite evidence-based being available to practitioners, traditional lecture-based continues dominate higher education. In this study, we discussed practitioner involvement biochemistry as potential means address gap practice. We used phenomenology lens through...

This paper is concerned with the role that membership structures of interorganizational collaborations have on the achievement of collaborative advantage in the context of tackling social issues. Based on action research involving participants in a wide variety of collaborative situations, the paper aims to explore the nature of the membership of collaborations in practice. A picture of members...

Torbert et al., 2004) offers both a holistic approach and specific analytic tools to combine inquiry and action in the accomplishing of specific objectives, in the testing of one's This chapter describes action inquiry, a kind of social science that can generate timely action. First, action inquiry studies not just the past, but also the present and future. Second, it is a form of research that...

When working in globally distributed settings, the perception of presence in collaboration and the use of technology directly impact how people are able to act in daily work practices. In this paper, we want to identify new ways to transform the way people think about presence in global collaboration, with the aim of improving the collaborative possibility for working closely with remote collea...