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Date Posted: April 21, 2020
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SPF participates in Knowledge Democracy Initiative with the Action Research Network of the Americas (ARNA)

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 ...

Date Posted: November 11, 2019
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Keynote Address by SPF Board President

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 ...

Date Posted: July 24, 2019
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SPF Welcomes a New Board Member, Dr. Margaret Riel

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 ...

Date Posted: April 18, 2016
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New Advisory Board Member

Dr. Elena Polush became a member of the SPF Advisory Board on April 16, 2016. She joined current Advisory Board members, Drs. Kevin Crehan, Candace Kay, Margaret Riel, and Kathleen Bergquist, and Area Superintendent Fabiola Bagula. Dr. Polush is currently Assistant Professor at Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, in the department of Educational Studies. She ...

Date Posted: January 8, 2016
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Workshop at the San Diego Education Association

On January 25, 2016, the Foundation will facilitate a workshop entitled Empowering Educators Through New Approaches to Producing Practice-Based Evidence to educators in San Diego. The objectives of the workshop include: (a) review of limitations of current approaches to educational research; (b) introduction of new approaches to practice-evidence in K-12 education, and (c) introduction of ...

Date Posted: June 7, 2015
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New Advisory Board Member

Dr. Kathleen Bergquist became a member of the SPF Advisory Board on June 4, 2015. She joined current Advisory Board members, Drs. Kevin Crehan, Candace Kay, and Margaret Riel, and Area Superintendent Fabiola Bagula. Dr. Bergquist is currently Associate Professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in the department of Social Work. She brings new ...

Date Posted: April 30, 2015
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Board members to lead workshop

On Saturday, May 9, Board members Rowell, Hong, Martin, Trescott, and Breen will facilitate a workshop on SPF at the upcoming conference of the Action Research Network of the Americas (ARNA) in Toronto, Canada. The workshop will introduce participants to SPF's crowdfunding and knowledge development platform (publish-your-work) for practitioner research, action research, and participatory research. Board ...