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SPF has been contacted by colleagues in India regarding an annual award recognizing the life of a passionate civil society leader and gender equality advocate. Nominations from India-based people and organizations are now being sought for The Martha Farrell Award. The Martha Farrell Award for Excellence in Women's Empowerment and Gender Justice was established in [...]

SPF Board President Lonnie Rowell and Publication Director Eunsook Hong presented a zoom session to a group of teachers in Scotland on January 15, 2021. The session addressed SPF’s mission and publishing with SPF, among other topics. The meeting was organized by the Action Research Grants program of The Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS). The [...]

Social Publishers Foundation recently announced its participation in a new project being organized by ARNA. As a part of its Knowledge Democracy Initiative, https://knowledgedemocracy.org/, ARNA has launched a Social Solidarity project using PhotoVoice. The project is taking place online on the knowledge democracy web site, https://knowledgedemocracy.org/projects-and-events/arna-social-solidarity-project/. According to Meagan Call-Cummings, a member of the Knowledge [...]

Board President Lonnie Rowell delivered a keynote address at the 2019 international conference co-sponsored by CARN (Collaborative Action Research Network) and ALARA (Action Learning, Action Research Association). The conference took place in Split, Croatia from October 17-19. Dr. Rowell addressed the role of action research in relation to the current global crisis. He called on [...]

Dr. Riel is the Director of the Center for Collaborative Action Research which publishes action research projects from Pepperdine University. At the Center, she has created a set of online tutorials for learning how to engage in action research which is used in 180 countries. Dr. Riel was a co-founder of the Action Research Network [...]

A chapter by SPF Board President Lonnie Rowell is included in the newly published Wiley Handbook of Action Research in Education edited by Craig A. Mertler (2019).  Rowell’s chapter examines rigor in educational action research in the larger context of education research. Beginning with the understanding that essentially rigor is simply the quality of being extremely [...]

Two SPF Board members published an article regarding the importance of practitioner research. Abstract: We discuss democratizing knowledge production and dissemination in education illustrated in two parts that challenge the current knowledge monopoly. Our discourse includes (a) problematic cultivation of the status quo in the hierarchy of knowledge value in the U.S. as a component [...]

SPF Board President Lonnie Rowell recently completed a speaking tour of six universities in England. Rowell spoke on the theme “knowledge democracy and educational action research” at Edge Hill University (Ormskirk), Liverpool Hope University (Liverpool), University of Nottingham, University of Northampton, University of Cumbria (Lancaster), and Cambridge University. His talks were based on his work [...]

Lonnie Rowell, SPF Board President, chaired the 6th Annual Conference of the Action Research Network of the Americas (ARNA) from June 28-30 at the University of California, San Diego. The conference included more than 100 presentations by action researchers, participatory action researchers, and practitioner-researchers from around the world and throughout the Americas. SPF was a [...]

Social Publishers Foundation now accepts submissions in German, Portuguese, and Spanish, in addition to English. When the editorial process for a non-English submission is completed, the report will be published in two languages: the Non-English version and the English version. The initiating non-English reviewers are:  Elia Fernández-Díaz, University of Cantabria, Cantabria, Spain, Spanish Reviewer [...]