Action research

We have chosen to use photovoice as the context to our strategy for expressing knowledge mobilization through blogs and art shows. Photovoice is a participatory action research strategy which is based on health promotion principles and the theoretical literature on education for critical consciousness, feminist theory, and a community-based approach to documentary photography. Photovoice has three main goals: to enable people to (1) record and represent their everyday realities; (2) promote…

Retail Racism Action Research Introduction Racism is one of the world’s major issues today. Many people are not aware of how much racism still exists in our stores, jobs, communities and anywhere where social lives are occurring. It good that racism is not as bad as it was in the past but it sure has not gone away. Discrimination is one of the first forms of racism which leads to racial stereotypes. One stereotype is that African Americans are criminals and that they like to steal from Retail…

Patience in Action and Faith is a Virtue of Jesus Christ Growing up in rural Upstate New York, I can remember how quite often my mother and father would repeatedly tell me and my brother that “patience is a virtue”. Granted this counsel, was often repeated during times of impatience and frustration. As a young child, it brings to my remembrance many experiences of sharing toys with my brother, wanting and waiting for the sharp edge of my popsicle to be cut off with scissors, or the endless “Are…

Code Stroke in Action Kathryn Sheehy University of San Diego MEPN 560 April 6,2015 Code Stroke in Action The clock just struck 0752 in room five of the Emergency Department when the medics called in. They reported that they had an eighty-two year-old female, who had initials K.R., demonstrating left sided facial droop and aphasia. According to the ACLS stroke scale, if one has facial droop, difficulty speaking or arm drift they are 72% likely to have a stroke (Carl). Her last…

Leadership Philosophy In the effort to create “a new wave of experimentation and advancement” (Senge, 2013, p. 11) within the STEM curricula at OCTC in this Action Research study, my leadership philosophy is guided by Senge’s (2013) disciplines which are building a shared vision, personal mastery, team learning, mental models, and systems thinking for effective leadership within a learning organization. Building a shared vision is sharing pictures of the future with the members to decide on a…

more than pay for the expected $30 million cost for the system implementation company wide. The system will also provide ongoing efficiencies, labor metrics, and reduce state department of labor risk through appropriate time tracking. The second action item requires further expansion of the food production management platform to increase distributor participation, which ultimately increases national volume discounts. The national volume discounts are reductions of product costs created through…

those people whose actions are being studied themselves to intpret these actions. (p.104) Qualitative inquiry places a high premium on the unique, on the exploitation of the researcher’s unique strengths rather than on standardization and on uniformity. Investigators will do things in ways which make sense to them given the problem in which they are interested, the aptitude they possess and the context in which they work. (Eisner, 1991, p.169). Use of interpretive field research creates space…

resources, and in the “Beyond Markets and States,” article she also included research about this. In this article she focused studying water industries that were both privately and publicly owned. More specifically she studied the “overdraft groundwater basin on the coast and watching saltwater intrusion threaten the possibility of long term use” (Ostrom, page 641.) However, that was not the only area that she focused on in her research. In addition, she included police industry studies, and an…

in qualitative research project. According to the Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses (2016), “the EBP process is a method that allows the practitioner to assess research, clinical guidelines, and other information resources based on high quality findings and apply the results to practice” (para. 5). Thus nursing professionals need to critique the researches to find out if the study findings can be utilized in their clinical practice area. A critical analysis of a qualitative research involves a…

That is the question and hypothesis this article has answered, concerning parents and the limits they allow. Also, the actions they take to enforce the rules they have set up in order to maintain a healthy mind and body concerning how much time is spent on technology, and the cites they are researching. The extent of how parents monitor and go about enforcing appropriate actions with technology. This paper is a reflective summary of the article “Parents, Teens, and Digital Monitoring,”(Anderson…