Seven quality choicepoints for ARJ: Ambition is welcome!
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Date
2025
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Sage
Abstract
Action Research has developed and published actionable knowledge since 2003. Our intention is to support learning for transformations among people, organizations, communities and societies at multiple levels, inner and outer: personal, organizational, methodological, conceptual/discursive. In seeking also to support a community among international scholar-practitioners, we share authors’ blogs and host journal symposia. Action Research is not a method, but an orientation to inquiry, with diverse schools, labels, theories and practices. We honor the original working definition from the founding of the journal: Action research is “a participatory, democratic process concerned with developing practical knowing in the pursuit of worthwhile human purposes, grounded in a participatory worldview which we believe is emerging at this historical moment. It seeks to bring together action and reflection, theory and practice, in participation with others, in the pursuit of practical solutions to issues of pressing concern to people, and more generally the flourishing of individual persons and their communities,” Today, in the face of our eco-social crisis, Action Research highlights what is
transforming and how lives - of all beings – are being improved. The journal’s seven quality choicepoints articulate our understanding of action research. We use these for assessing and developing articles. In sharing them we make the review process more transparent.
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Action Research Journal (ARJ), Oppression, Violence, Global inequity, Ecology
Citation
Bradbury, H., Divecha, S., Bartels, K., Friedman, V., Apgar, M., Wheeler, J., Bivens, F., Hirasawa, T., Ho, D., Wittmeyer, J. and Pizzolati, M., 2025. Seven quality choicepoints for ARJ: Ambition is welcome!. Action Research, 23(1), pp.3-7.