CARN blog and Ning space
CARN is an open and democratic network. The CARN website hosts both a blog and a Ning space to promote discussion, networking and debate as well as to provide a critical space in which to share, explore and disseminate action research. Whilst CARN encourages critical and lively debate, we would ask that postings take account of what is for the common good.
Thank you.
| Name | Comment | Posted On |
|---|---|---|
| Charmian Wilby | CARN would like to wish a very Happy and Prosperous New Year to all our Membership! | January 12, 2012, 11:20 am |
| Jennyanne | Hey, just wanted to say thank you all so much for giving me the opportunity to present my drama/script thing. The day REALLY helped me to think about what conferences are for and how best to engage with them. I'm looking forward to my first one now! :) | May 18, 2011, 5:08 pm |
| cathie pearce | Thanks to everyone for making the CARN preparation day at MMU such a stimulating and thought provoking day. It has set my thoughts off running in many directions and has certainly helped me to think about how I might let go of settled habits and learnings about conference presentations. We have some fabulous materials to share and would now like to try and create an interesting conference circular from them. Any thoughts and ideas about how we might do this would be most welcome. Also welcome are any further thoughts/ideas/questions from yesterday in whatever form, shape or intensity! cathie | May 18, 2011, 12:09 pm |
| Charmian Wilby | We at CARN wish all our members a very Happy Easter! | April 21, 2011, 12:07 pm |
| Charmian Wilby | Another successful conference is drawing to an end. Interesting conversations and stimulating interactions have been at the heart of our time in Cambridge. We hope to meet you all again next year in Vienna! | November 7, 2010, 12:58 pm |
| cathie pearce | Pramitha, so sorry that noone has responded to you but we have all been on summer vacations here in the UK. Details for registration were posted on the website so hope you saw them. A report from the day will soon be available as well. It will be in the study day section. Please get in touch again if you have any further queries | September 2, 2010, 12:43 pm |
| Pramitha Mudalige | I am a DIP. TESL student of NIE Sri Lanka . I want to register to paarticipate for the CARN study days in Sri Lanka. How to register | August 7, 2010, 4:17 pm |
| Ruth Balogh | Responding to the idea of being 'other' - yes, I find this very liberating too. One realises on the one hand how uncertain is the 'self' and yet how full of potential. Pretending is a way of becoming. | May 21, 2010, 9:24 am |
| Charmian | Please check out the new additions to the archive section of study day material pre-2008. | May 10, 2010, 3:30 pm |
| cathie pearce | that's a really interesting and provocative comment Debbie! I like your observation about capacities and how we can find ourselves doing things we didn;t think we could - we all 'admitted' to feeling apprehensive as we started out - perhaps we need to make chances?!! | April 21, 2010, 10:19 am |
| Debra Kidd | I was listening to a child the other day trying to explain why she'd rather sit her exam in role and she said 'I'm better when I'm not myself.' It reminds me of how I felt during the study day; playing the role of a researcher, of one who knows. I'm better when I'm not me. It's amazing how the thoughts and contributions of others make you somehow better and allow us to play and present in ways we didn't think we were capable or brave enough to do. Looking forward to the next chance to 'be other'. | April 20, 2010, 4:23 pm |
| Rebecca Patterson | This has been the beginnig of a new sort of journey with a new group of collaborators. I have a hunch - formless as it might seem, that it will run for a good while (ref the string in the images section from CARN study day) how long we can't foretell and what will emerge, again we won't know until it happens. Please join us as its been fun so far. | April 19, 2010, 3:03 pm |
| Una Hanley | This was a really new experience for me as I had few experiences which prepared me for the activities. But i was obliged to move out of my customary way of seeing things and try to think differently. | April 16, 2010, 3:31 pm |
| Cathie Pearce | Welcome to our CARN blog! Debbie, Becky, Una and I have been reflecting on the day and our responses to events from the day. Please join us whether you were at the study day or not as we ask ourselves what kind of inquiry art practice is? and what potentialities and possibilities might it provoke? | April 15, 2010, 9:41 am |
| Bridget Somekh | I'm doing this for myself this time! Hi friends I had a great time with Niki Davis and colleagues at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, including attending the Inaugural Symposium of New Zealand CARN. But it's good to be home, and fun to be working with Morten Nissen on editing the Special Issue of Mind Culture and Activity on CHAT and Action Research. Thank you to whoever uploaded my last email about the SI to the new CARN Blog - it was great to find it there when we were looking at the CARN website at the NZ conference. Please let me know if you are thinking of submitting an article for the SI and, if so, when we are likely to receive it. The deadline has been put back to Oct 31 2009. All other information you need is in the attached 'call'. Very best wishes Bridget | August 6, 2009, 4:12 pm |
| Bridget Somekh | Hi friends - If you are interested in Activity Theory and other socio-cultural theories such as CoP, you might like to submit an article to the SI of Mind Culture and Activity that I am editing. Here is the information you need: Call for Papers Special Issue on “Cultural-Historical Activity Theory and Action Research” Mind, Culture and Activity Link Journal: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/1074-9039 Submissions: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/mca Prepared by Bridget Somekh and Morten Nissen Deadlines First version submitted: October 31 2009 Reviewing and decisions for accepting papers completed by: April 30 2010 INVITATION At the ISCAR conference in San Diego in September 2008, at an invited symposium on “The Social Construction of CHAT: An Intervention,” a lively debate developed on the relationship between Action Research and CHAT. Yrjö Engeström expressed the view that Action Research is “not a method” and has no value for those engaged in CHAT, an opinion that was contested by several members of the audience. Anna Stetsenko, another contributor to the symposium, reminded us that Lev Vygotsky and Kurt Lewin, who is generally acknowledged as the of the first to use the term Action Research, were friends and influenced by each other’s work. Since then, both CHAT and Action Research have grown into very heterogeneous approaches, each with an ongoing discussion between diverse positions on how to relate theory, research, and practice, yet perhaps also with some common ground. To continue the debate, the Editors of MCA have invited Bridget Somekh, co-Editor with Susan Noffke of the Handbook of Educational Action Research (Sage, 2009), to be Guest Editor of a Special Issue of Mind, Culture and Activity. Bridget has been a member of ISCAR, and previously ISCRAT, for the last ten years and uses both CHAT and Action Research in her own work. The Special Issue will be co-edited by Morten Nissen, who has written and co-edited a number of texts on action / practice research in the CHAT tradition, and is member of the ISCAR executive committee. The aim of the Special Issue will be to provide a platform for comprehensive and critical discussion of the issues arising from methodology and practice in the experience of those working in the field of socio-cultural research with a CHAT and/or Action Research orientation. The special issue will examine but will not be limited to: 1. In what sense CHAT and Action Research can be said to be methodologies, including informed critique of either or both approaches 2. How and why some “action-oriented” methodologies articulated in terms of CHAT (e.g. “developmental work research” or “practice research”) take up, ignore or reject elements from the Action Research tradition 3. The relationship between mind and action in CHAT and how this compares with work on reflection in action research 4. How the problem-focus in action research compares with the focus in CHAT on understanding the objects and motives of activity 5. How the Marxist legacy in CHAT compares with the use of critical theory in some approaches to action research when the field of problems and references is widened to social theory and philosophy. 6. The political in action research and in CHAT – in areas such as the politics of identity and community, the politics of knowledge 7. Comparisons between fundamental theoretical ideas in CHAT and Action Research, such as those were developed by Vygotsky and Lewin and their followers 8. Historical accounts of the work of Vygotsky and Lewin during their lifetime and the extent to which each may have influenced the other GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSIONS We will consider articles up to 8,000 words in length (double spaced, 1-inch margins top and bottom, 1.25-inch margins left and right, including 250-word abstract, references, notes, figures, and tables). Please keep in mind when preparing your manuscript that the MCA readership is unusually broad (anthropologists, psychologists, linguists, sociologists, educators and public policy people are all among our subscribers) and avoid jargon that is familiar only to researchers in one field. Also note that papers are to be submitted to MCA through the online mechanism and authors need to indicate that theirs is a submission to this special issue (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/mca). Deadlines: First version submitted: October 31, 2009 Reviewing and revision of accepted papers completed: April 30, 2010 COMMUNICATION Please, in addition to sbmitting to the MCA website, send your submissions in an MS Word file (including all relevant contact information) to: Bridget Somekh (b.somekh@mmu.ac.uk) and Morten Nissen (morten.nissen@psy.ku.dk) | March 30, 2009, 2:21 am |
| Charmian Wilby | Hi everyone - we have put in place a captcha device on the CARN blog. This means that you will be asked to type in some text to verify that you are a genuine blogger and not a machine!. Successful posts will now automatically appear meaning there is no need for us to moderate postings anymore, so your posting should appear as soon as you send it, which will be more convenient for us all. If you encounter any problems, please let me know. | March 24, 2009, 11:12 am |
| Charmian Wilby | Hi Zoe - no, you are not doing anything wrong, but unfortunately we have had some problems with spamming, that is we have been targetted by automatic comments which is quite common among the blogging community, so our web master deleted all the items and yours probably got deleted by mistake. | March 10, 2009, 12:08 pm |
| Zoe Parker | Delighted to see a blog but I thought I had posted a comment about Kath Green\'s memorial event and don\'t see it so am I doing something wrong? | March 5, 2009, 9:58 am |
| Mary | Love it Steven! I'm currently thinking about the next Northern CARN day, and wondered what might be of interest to people? (I have some thoughts, but would welcome some local, or not so local, input too. | February 15, 2009, 6:14 pm |
| Steven Naylor | Hi everyone. Hope you all like the redesign of the website. Don\'t forget this is a collaborative place and it would be good to get more information about people\'s research for the \'Members Activities\' section. Write a short piece about your current id | February 11, 2009, 11:27 am |
| Mary McAteer | Hello everyone - I\'m delighted to see a blog feature here, and look forward to many interesting and fruitful conversations! | February 4, 2009, 5:43 pm |
| Charmian Wilby | Welcome to all CARN members! This space is for you to communicate with each other about CARN-related subjects and to initiate discussions. Please use and enjoy! | February 3, 2009, 2:41 pm |