Reflective practice is a critical component of Action Research—as a First Person process of individual reflection, a Second Person collaborative action, or a more public Third Person process in which the results of the reflective practice are shared with a broader audience.
In this presentation David Coghlan and Mary Brydon-Miller are joined by visual facilitator, Steve Kroeger, for a discussion that builds off of the old saying: “The fox knows many things, the hedgehog knows one big thing”
— in this case with Mary taking the role of the fox and David the role of the hedgehog. Steve will be capturing the dialogue between the fox and the hedgehog through drawings, as well as illustrating reflections from participant discussions.
And we invite participants to consider with us the ways in which reflective practice can deepen their own work around sustainability. There will be opportunity for individual reflective practice and group discussion, looking at how our invidual commitments to sustainability contribute to organizational action.
Mary Brydon-Miller, Ph.D. is Professor in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Louisville in the US and is currently serving as Extra-ordinary Professor at North-West University in South Africa and adjunct faculty at the University of Technology, Sydney.
She is a participatory action researcher who conducts work in school, community, and organizational settings. She is the editor, with David Coghlan, of the SAGE Encyclopedia of Action Research (2014). Her most recent book with Sarah Banks is Ethics in Participatory Research for Health and Social Well-Being: Cases and Commentaries (2019). Her current work focuses on the areas of Climate Change Education and doctoral training in Action Research.
David Coghlan is a Professor Emeritus and specialises in organization development and action research at the Trinity Business School, Trinity College Dublin. He has an MSc in management science from Manchester University, an SM in management from MIT’s Sloan School of Management, a PhD from the National University of Ireland and an MA from the University of Dublin. He has published over 400 articles and book chapters, and is co-author of The Handbook of Research Methods in Organizational Change (2023), and Collaborative Inquiry for Organization Development and Change (2021). He serves on the editorial advisory boards of several journals, including Action Research.
Steve Kroeger has over 20 years experience as a faculty member at the University of Cincinnati, working in Special Education, and focusing on developing cultural competence and critical thinking with preservice teachers to unleash the academic excellence of their students. Steve’s current endeavors embrace microteaching, cartooning, and visual facilitation. He has been involved in several publications, including You make the road by walking: A case study of partnership and collaboration (2015), and Stone soup: Using co-teaching and Photovoice to support inclusive education (2012), with Mary Brydon-Miller.
Hedgehog illustration by The New York Public Library on Unsplash
Fox painting by Fuu J on Unsplash
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