Our Action Research Community (ARC)
STAR Action Research Community (ARC) is led by professors of action research from eight nations. These professors, who teach action research courses, have met between ARNA conferences over the last few years to think about strategies, issues, and resources to support the teaching action research. In the spirit of action research we continue to evolve.
Within a distributed leadership framework and Learning Circle approach organized by Margaret Riel in 2017, the STAR community has developed through a series of phases.
The first phase (2017-18) Learning Circle -focused on the collective creation of this STAR ARNA ARC website. We selected a set of topics that were essentials in teaching action research and also shared information about the way action research is positioned in different programs.
The second phase (2018-19) Dual Language - centered on the development of the Spanish translation of the website. Clotilde Lomeli Agruel took the lead on this effort. We also forged a closer partnerhip with the Action Research Tutorials and with the Social Publishing Foundation joining the facebook group to provide a link to a larger community of action researchers.
The third phase (2019-20) Extended Reach - evolved with the construction of the STAR ARNA ARC Blog (April 2019) coordinated by Kathy Shafer and the development of the STAR ARNA ARC Newsletter (May 2019) with Teri Marcos, Linda Purrington and Clotilde Lomeli Agruel as Editors.
The fourth phase (2020-21) Extend Sharing - began with a shift in name-- STAR ARC became Supporting the Teaching of Action Research Community (STAR-C), by trimming the double AR. With the names change, we redesigned the banner of the website. We also added one more interactive component- STAR-C Chats. We now alternate monthly meetings between STAR-C Learning Circles and STAR-C Chats around topics central in teaching action research