2012 Community Meeting

Action Research Community Business Meeting

Come eat, drink and think action research with us!

April 16th, 6:15 - 7:45

Marriot Pinnacle, 4th Level - Ambleside

AGENDA

Pre-meeting reception

1) Welcome to AERA SIG Community Meeting and overview of the session.

2) Community Introductions--Who we are, and our interest in action research

3) Reports from Officers

4) Community Share Activity:

Instead of going out to the local community, as we did last year, the planning

for this year is to engage the community in an activity to create a shared

understanding of Action Research. Last year, we discussed the problems of

not have a shared definition of action research. So we are working on a process

to create a definition of action research to place on the AERA website (here).

Over the year, the community share committee, headed by Lonnie Rowell with

Elena Polush and Margaret Riel as members have been conducting a Delphi

study as a process to create shared understanding about the essence of Action

Research.

We are bringing this activity to the community meeting so that all us will have

a chance to influence the formation of our collective statement about action

research. The goal is create a statement characterizing action research.

5) Formation and Appointment of Committees

We need a new election chair and few other officers which can be appointed

by the chair. We also need some committees and innovative ideas to use

our shared resources. We will also need volunteers for reviewing the papers

for next year.

6) Moving Forward:

We end with meeting with thanks to the existing Leaders, and the handoff of

the leadership to the new leaders and then more reception.

Post-Meeting Reception