Action Research Journal (ARJ) continues to embrace many paradigms of inquiry. Given the call of our time, we have refreshed our commitment to emphasizing Action Research for Transformations (ART) and, in the process of doing our work, to develop and convene a global community of practice under the larger umbrella of ARþ Foundation (www.ActionResearchPlus.com) which provides resources for all on the ART path. Because of our decision to emphasize Action Research that is transformative, we have refreshed the journal's seven "quality choicepoints." ARJ for ART's sake Civilizational, structural transformation-transforming our social, political and economic systems-is now urgent. The Associate Editors at ARJ, i.e. those charged with developing papers for publication, have issued a call to action researchers to better tie efforts, practice and inquiry, to this challenge. ART helps articulate the heart of the ART (Bradbury et al., 2019). ART means that ARJ's knowledge creation:
Purpose This is an attempt to write an account of action learning that is as close to the ground on which it was practised as the author can make it. In that sense, the reader can read what follows below as a kind of autoethnography, a "representation as relationship" as Gergen and Gergen (2002, p. 11) call it. This is because in the opportunity of telling a story about his practice as an action learning facilitator, the author hopes to evoke that which is more akin to the contactful environment of quality action learning than any amount of abstract theorising. Design/methodology/approach This is an example of "narrative inquiry", best judged, according to Sparkes (2002), in terms of the ability of such accounts to "contribute to sociological understanding in ways that, amongst others are self-knowing, self-respecting, self-sacrificing and self-luminous". Findings As the author re-tells this partial account, he has a sense of the massive wider structures around him, but all he can see in his dim lamp is the fleeting glimpse of the local strata. The author traces his hand along the seams, not intending to dig them out, but simply to witness them, or even, in a spirit of yearning, to give them a witnessing of themselves. Originality/value To the author, this is about portraying what action learning feels like, rather than thinks like, for his own and for the benefit of other practitioners.
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