Methodologically speaking, what is the (p)AR the world needs today and in the future, considering our biggest local and global challenges?
ALARA Is pleased to present a webinar with Prof Alfredo Ortiz Aragón entitled Methodologically speaking, what is the (p)AR the world needs today and in the future, considering our biggest local and global challenges?.
Date and time: Wednesday 7 August 2024 at 9:00 am (Australian Eastern Standard Time) via Zoom.
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Presenter: Alfredo Ortiz Aragón provides the following short cv.
I am an action researcher and professor at the Dreeben School of Education at the University of the Incarnate Word (UIW) where I continually attempt to bring the community into the “classroom” and take the “classroom” into the community. I have been actively engaged over the last 25 years in participatory Action Research (AR), Community-Based Participatory Research, and participatory methodologies applied to community development, health equity, and human rights. I try to work with and elevate people’s knowledge — our “senti-cuerpo-pensante” (thinking, feeling, embodied) ways of knowing, acting and being—as the highest and most valid form of knowledge that has sustained us from the beginning of time. I spend a lot of my time thinking about and working on ways to help people share their stories in ways in which they can see the expertise in their experience and use it themselves and with others to try to change their worlds, without it getting abstracted away.
In 2023-24, I was awarded the Moody Professorship for my high level of scholarship, teaching excellence and community service (press release). As part of the award, I delivered the December 2023 Commencement address (you can watch here).
I recently co-lead an AR project that promotes equitable health and wellbeing by bringing together community members, CBOs, university students, professors, and local health jurisdiction workers. The project engages community actors in telling their own wellbeing stories that are then used by local groups to inspire advocacy and inform action. I am a thought leader in AR, co-authoring one of the leading books in the field Action Research 5th Edition) and also co-edited the Action Research section of the recent Sage Handbook of Participatory Research and Inquiry.
I am looking forward to meeting you all and learning about new ways to do this important work, even in the adverse territories that characterize many of the places we try to contribute to equity and change. Mucho gusto!