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

Posted on: February 25, 2022 by Lonnie Rowell

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

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