An Action Research Community (ARC) 

ACTION RESEARCH NETWORK OF THE AMERICAS

WELCOME TO OUR COMMUNITY                     

The STAR-Community of ARNA  provides support for the teaching and learning of action research. We work together to share our ideas, to improve our teaching practice, and we invite you to join us and share and learn from the STAR community. 

The initial development of the website was the first phase.  Beginning with a small group and using a Learning Circle Approach, we met monthly from October 2017 - May 2018. Each of us led the group around a project idea and the development of the site resources around that topic.  The goal of the community is to collectively create the first draft of ideas, suggestions, and resources to support the teaching of action research.  

We continued our development by inviting the larger ARNA community to join us in expanding the site and discussing ideas, activities, projects and resources.  We are engaging in the following activities:

 If you have ideas or professional needs as a teacher of action research, please join in and share your ideas.  We will evolve with all of you. 

Video Introduction to the STAR Community (June 11, 2021)

Kathy Shafer 

Margaret Riel

Laura Dino

Laura Dino

Teri Marcos

 Donna Azodi   

Jennifer Robins 

Linda Purrington 

Clotilde Lomeli 

Carlos Chiu

The people listed here have worked in a Action Research Learning Circle from  Sep 2017- June 2018 focused on sharing and creating resources through a process of  distributed leadership. 

Each member of the learning circle is of a leader of one of the teaching topics listed in the navigation bar, but all the members of the learning circle shared their ideas on these topics either in discussion or writing or both.  The topics appear under teaching topics in the navigation menu as well as here.   Each of us is exploring ways to have a larger number of people join us and share ideas and you can see this on the pages. 

                


In May 2019, we started the STAR newsletter to share articles and resources from the larger ARNA community with our members.  Editors:    

Teri Marcos   

Linda Purrington

Clotilde Lomeli

In April 2019, we started the STAR Blog to post short entries that we hope will spark conversations around the process of teaching action research. The STAR members who are managing the blog include:

Kathy Shafer    

Christine Lechner 

Kimmie Tang

Ron Morgan

Matthew Moors

The newest addition to our activities, we host a bi-monthly open discussion around topics of interest to those who are teaching action research.  We learn from each other and gather new strategies to improve the way we support action researchers.  Leading the Chat Programming are:

Linda Purrington

Matthew Moors

Geitza Rebolledo

We shared the different ways that action research fits into the curriculum of the university programs.  For some it is directly tied to a set of courses.  In other cases, the work is informed by courses but students work with a set of advisors to do action action research as a masters or doctoral thesis.  Our goal in "timeframes" was to share ideas for how action research fits into the course of study at different universities to help others as they go through reorganizations of their university programs. There is a quick survey for you to complete and you are invited to share your program details. 

As a support for those who might be new to teaching action research or who are teaching it in a new area, we are inviting everyone to share their action research syllabi.  While the reading material might be dated, the overall structure of courses might provide generative ideas on how to structure new courses.  Feel free to add your syllabi with the community. 

We invite you to consider joining a number of Action Research Networks. We also invite you to use the  action research tutorials in your teaching or to make available to students who might use them to help participants in action research who might want to learn more about the process.  And a facebook discussion for both the teaching and learning of action research. 

See who are our current leaders and help us support the teaching of action research by becoming a member of the STAR-Community!