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Public Distrust, Science, and Practitioner Research

Posted on: September 27, 2022 by Lonnie Rowell

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Tagged with: academia, antiscience, CDC, community-based initiatives, creative solutions, declining public trust, Knowledge Democratization, knowledge mobilization, partisan-divide, public trust, science, science communicators, scientific research

I recently read a Time magazine interview[i] with Dr. Rochelle Walensky, Director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, regarding her efforts to change the CDC and fix its “dramatic mistakes” during COVID 19. In the interview Walensky shared that a recent in-depth review of CDC revealed, among other things, the challenges of the agency’s current orientation towards […] Read Moreabout Public Distrust, Science, and Practitioner Research

“BACK IN THE SADDLE AGAIN”

Posted on: August 25, 2022 by Lonnie Rowell

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Tagged with: dialogic encounters, information, knowledge, Knowledge Dissemination, Knowledge Monopoly, Knowledge Production, knowledge supply chain, Practitioner Research, Social Publishers Foundation, transformations in knowledge production

I took a break from the Blog for a number of months to focus further on my health and to complete preparations for the 10th Anniversary Conference for the Action Research Network of the Americas (ARNA), which I co-founded and in which I remain active.  My wife and I also spent 6 weeks on the road, traveling around the Southwest, […] Read Moreabout “BACK IN THE SADDLE AGAIN”

A Morning After: Ukraine, Putin, and the Attack on Democracy

Posted on: February 25, 2022 by Lonnie Rowell

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Tagged with: Action Research, Authoritarian populism, Civic illiteracy, Civic Literacy, Complacency, Diversity, Empathy, Homophobia, Islamophobia, Knowledge Dissemination, Knowledge economy, Knowledge Monopoly, Knowledge Production, Participatory research, Politics of knowledge, Practice of democracy, Practitioner Research, Racism, Sexism, Social Change, Social Justice, Sociocultural solidarity, youth voice

INTRODUCTORY NOTE:  I have been in a period of personal and professional reorganization following a major health scare. From June through September I was in treatment for throat cancer following 2 months of diagnosis and testing. The chemo and radiation therapy I underwent destroyed what had been a malignant tumor at the base of my tongue, and this good news […] Read Moreabout A Morning After: Ukraine, Putin, and the Attack on Democracy

Reflecting on the Taos Education As Relating Conference

Posted on: November 16, 2021 by Rolla Lewis

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Tagged with: Anarchist Traditions, cognitive diversity, dismantling privilege, ecological justice, Educating as Relating, Knowledge Democracy, learning community, lifescaping action research, reflection, Relation Power, Social Justice, unilateral power, wellbeing, youth voice

My thanks to colleague, friend, and SPF Advisory Board member, Rolla Lewis, for submitting the Guest Blog below. Rolla was a long-time California counselor educator. We worked together on a number of projects in support of school counseling and school counselors in the state back in the 80s, 90s, and into the start of the new century. As you will […] Read Moreabout Reflecting on the Taos Education As Relating Conference

Practitioner Research in a Time of Triple Crisis: When Too Much is Not Enough

Posted on: August 29, 2021 by Lonnie Rowell

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Tagged with: Academic Research, Action Research, Anti-Science Hysteria, Authoritarianism, Civic Life, COVID-19, Democracy, Global Pandemic, Knowledge Democratization, Knowledge Dissemination, Knowledge Production, Political Divides, Practitioner Research, Racism, Social Domains, Strengthen Practice, Unwinding

We are living in terribly perilous times. And the stress of it all showers down on us daily. In its August 25 weekly online Education Briefing, The New York Times proclaimed “A bumpy fall semester.”[i]  The article focuses on the impact of current COVID anxieties and the political divides associated with determining how best to respond to COVID and school […] Read Moreabout Practitioner Research in a Time of Triple Crisis: When Too Much is Not Enough

Beginning Again: On Knowledge democracy and Culture Circles in America

Posted on: July 30, 2021 by Lonnie Rowell

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Tagged with: Action for Change, Civic Literacy, Culture Circles, Domination, Epistemological Diversity, Epistemological Violence, Hope, James Baldwin, Knowledge Democracy, Knowledge Monopoly, Marginalization, Oppression, Popular Education, Social Action, Social Imagination, Subordination, Suppression, Western Canon

Knowledge democracy is a phrase that refers to long-standing conflicts over what constitutes knowledge and whose knowledge counts. The phrase has been advanced as a kind of platform for resistance to the domination of what long-time scholar-activists Budd Hall and Rajesh Tandon (2017) describe as a small band of knowledge systems created by white male scientists in Europe some 500 […] Read Moreabout Beginning Again: On Knowledge democracy and Culture Circles in America

On Reading the World in 2020-2021

Posted on: July 15, 2021 by Lonnie Rowell

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Tagged with: Book Club, Civic Action, Civic Interest, Civic Literacy, Knowledge Democracy, Literacy, Reading, Social Justice

Book clubs can be a worthwhile and enjoyable activity. It is generally estimated that more than 5 million people in the US now participate in Book Clubs, with club popularity increasing over the past several decades.[i] With a history that in some form goes back several centuries, a core premise of book clubs is that reading is a pleasure and […] Read Moreabout On Reading the World in 2020-2021

The SPF Blog: Issues in Practitioner Research, Policy Making in Helping Professions and Social Change

Posted on: July 1, 2021 by Lonnie Rowell

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Tagged with: Civic Literacy, Community Empowerment, Community Engagement, Knowledge Democracy, Politics of Knowledge Production, Practitioner Research, Social Change

Around six years ago my wife and I were beginning to have some serious conversations about our upcoming retirements from higher education including our evolving views of what we had accomplished as teachers and as scholars in education, where we had fallen short in our original goals and aspirations, and what we wanted to do for the after-retirement period. We […] Read Moreabout The SPF Blog: Issues in Practitioner Research, Policy Making in Helping Professions and Social Change