Links to action research (and other) resources elsewhere
A deliberately selective list of sites offering links and resources relevant to action research, action learning, and other related topics
Action research
PARnet http://www.parnet.org/
- After some time without a home, Parnet is again available. PARnet is the Participative Action Research Network at Cornell University. One of the key action research sites in North America, it offers valuable resources and links to other sites.
CARE http://www.uea.ac.uk/care/
- An important UK action research site located at the University of East Anglia, it offers resources, and links to other web sites, among other topics
ARoW http://www.fhs.usyd.edu.au/arow/
- Action Research On the Web is a web-based university course in action research offered by the University of Sydney and maintained by Ian Hughes
CARN http://www.uea.ac.uk/care/carn/
- The Collaborative Action Research Network site is to be found at the University of East Anglia. Among other things, this network offers a discussion list for subscribers
CARPP http://www.bath.ac.uk/carpp/
- The Centre for Action Research in Professional Practice, associated with Judi Marshall, Peter Reason and Jack Whitehead at the University of Bath, UK
Other action research resources are to be found at a number of sites:
- Jack Whitehead's home page, with a variety of resources including theses, and links to other home pages. You'll find it at http://www2.bath.ac.uk/~edsajw/home.html
- Judith Newman's home page "Action research: educating as inquiry", with some of Judith's own writing and some by other teachers is at http://users.andara.com/~jnewman
- The AEL website and action research mailing list. The website is at http://www.ael.org/ For the mailing list, send the email message "subscribe aelaction" to majordomo@aelliot.ael.org
- Will Allen's "LearningForSustainability" site at http://learningforsustainability.net/ includes a very useful collection of action research resources and links at http://learningforsustainability.net/research/action_research.php
- Tobias Brown's papers on action science, Chris Argyris' action research methodology is at http://www.actionscience.com/actinq.htm
- Martin Ryder's collection of action research papers is at http://www.cudenver.edu./~mryder/itc/act_res.html
(There are many other sites. Follow the links from the sites listed on this page. Do a search on "action research" using one of the internet search engines. Google gives me the best results)
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Action learning
ALI http://www.imc.org.uk/imc/al-inter/welcome.htm
- Action Learning International is a sibling site at IMC, with substantial action learning resources, and links to international action learning sites
IMC http://www.imc.org.uk/imc/
- International Management Centres' headquarters at Buckingham
ALARPM http://www.imc.org.uk/imc/apc-1996/papers/alarpm.htm
- The Action Learning Action Research and Process Management Association Inc offers its members networking with those with similar interests, and publishes related books, journals and monographs
IFAL http://www.btinternet.com/~saraswati.soc/home.htm
- The International Federation for Action Learning. I've listed its UK site here because of its various offerings, including links to other sites, and various resources. There is also an international site at http://www.tlainc.com/ifal.htm
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Other related sites
http://qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-eng.htm
Qualitative research http://www.latrobe.edu.au/aqr/
- Currently housed at Latrobe University in Australia, the Association for Qualitative Research (AQR) is an international organisation to further qualitative research and provide a forum for qualitative researchers. Formed in 1999, it is already active. There are links to other qualitative research sites from its web page
QualPage http://www.ualberta.ca/~jrnorris/qual.html
- This qualitative research page at the University of Georgia is a valuable collection of a variety of resources and links for qualitative researchers generally. Some AR resources are included; in any event, many of the qualitative research resources are relevant to action researchers
HEPROC http://www.heproc.org/
- The HEPROC ("Higher Education Processes") site contains a large variety of well organised resources for education and educational research
FQS http://qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-eng.htm
- This is a bilingual on line journal: Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung, or in its English version, Forum: Qualitative Social Research
Evaluation http://www.parklane.com.au/aes/
- Some evaluation lists and sites also carry relevant material. The Australasian Evaluation Society home page has links to other evaluation sites, and instructions for joining evaluation mailing lists
Maintained by Bob Dick [visit his home page?]; this version 2.21w last revised 20070429
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