Action Research

About Alfredo Ortiz AragónErnest T. Stringer

Ernest T. Stringer After an early career as a primary teacher and school principal Ernie was a lecturer in education at Curtin University of Technology in Western Australia. From the mid-1980s based at Curtins Centre for Aboriginal Studies he worked collaboratively with Aboriginal staff and community people to develop a wide variety of innovative and highly successful education and community development programs and services. His work with government departments community-based agencies business corporations and local governments assisted them to work more effectively with Aboriginal people. In recent years as visiting professor at the University of New Mexico and Texas A&M University and as visiting scholar at Cornell University he taught research methods courses and/or engaged in projects with African American and Hispanic community and neighborhood groups. As a UNICEF consultant he recently engaged in a major project to increase parent participation in schools in East Timor. He is author of Action Research (Sage 2007) Action Research in Education (Pearson 2008) Action Research in Health (with Bill Genat; Pearson 2004) and Action Research in Human Services (with Rosalie Dwyer; Pearson 2005). Until recently he was a member of the editorial board of the Action Research Journal and past president of the Action Learning Action Research Association (ALARA). Alfredo Ortiz Aragón Alfredo is an action researcher who designs and implements change processes to address pressing social and environmental concerns in support of equitable development. In the field he seeks to help organizations and movements that support processes of social change and environmental stewardship in order to be more effective and reflective in their work. In all of his work he uses methods that appeal to diverse learning styles but that also challenge dominant ways of seeing knowing and acting in the world that uphold unjust social rules and structures. He encourages all of his collaborators to reflectively put themselves into the picture and consciously participate in the changes they seek for others. He is willing to lead but also be vulnerable and open about what he and we know and how we all might use our leadership and vulnerability to engage in honest conversations that help us support people in need in ways that are culturally relevant and potentially transformative. He is an associate professor at the Dreeben School of Education Graduate Studies Program at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio Texas where he teaches qualitative and action research methods and design. His PhD is from the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom.