Considering the past ten and inventing the next ten years
for Action Research journal.
The associate editors’ board for
ARj met at Cornell
University earlier this month to consider what we have accomplished in the past
decade with the journal and what we hope to accomplish in the next.
We find ourselves surprised to be already 10
years old as a journal. We plan to formally celebrate in August 2013. In the
meantime we’ll use social media to gather suggestions from our readers and
Twitter followers on how best to celebrate. The theme for our celebration is
“10 for 10.” But ten what you may well ask? And that is where your suggestions
come in. Do we want to hear what are the ten favorite articles? Do we want to
hear what are the top 10 requests for how ARj might better serve our readership
and community?
We are all ears!
So what did we accomplish in Cornell? We got to know one
another better. We each shared what were important milestones for us in
becoming action researchers.
We also
shared what we saw as strengths and obstacles. We crafted a vision and mission
statement: Arj exists to “re-enchant knowledge creation for a sustainable
world.” Most important, we decided that the development of an online community, tightly
linked with the journal and using social media, is key to disseminating the action
research perspective to a wider audience. It is also key to developing the next
generation of action researchers. And we were happy to have a little fun
together, to eat and drink well enough in each others company that we agreed to
meet again in a couple of years. By 2014 we will know what we have accomplished
in terms of growing our rigor and our vigor as an international community.
I invite you to look at this short video of Mary Brydon
Miller’s reflection on the themes of a half days conversation. It shares a
taste of our meeting and I hope sparks some thoughts for you on how to engage
with us.
Happy Solstice, Happy Holidays
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