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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"First person action research"”.
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Coming home to self: a first person action research inquiry
… these dynamics, to reconnect, care and enable personally, relationally and professionally, as ethical care of the self resistance, as a form of learning and development practice. To come home to self personally, as political action. However, inquiring in personally protected and camouflaged …
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Being good enough? A first-person action research inquiry into the experience of shame in professional practice
This thesis is a first-person action research inquiry into the phenomenon of shame within my professional practice in leadership and management development, in the context of experiential and experience-based learning. Shame has received little consideration within the field of organisational …
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Art-based knowing: first-person inquiry into epistemology, voice and agency from a gendered perspective
A first-person action research inquiry into feminine epistemological development, voice and voiceless-ness; working with art-based approaches, with metaphor and with embodied ways of knowing.
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Enhancing My Leadership Skills to Support a More Connected Organization
This action-oriented thesis explored the question: “How might I enhance my leadership to support a more interconnected and collaborative organization?” My inquiry followed the practice of first-person action research as my overall methodology. I relied on the methods of humble inquiry and …
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Interim management: an enquiry into praxis
… assignments. This paper report on the author’s first person action research into his practice as an interim manager which draws on the research described, on reflection on that research and the author’s practice as an interim manager. It has enabled the author to relate his practice to theory, …
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A Personal Inquiry into Solidarity: Enhancing Relational Accountability in Healthcare Leadership
Guided by a first‑person action research methodology, this inquiry unfolded as a study of leadership and a personal journey. As participant and researcher, I engaged in reflective journals and embodied practices such as baking and kitchen table conversations. Antiracist practice, antioppressive …
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A Part Not Apart: A First-Person Exploration of the Role of Reciprocity in Decolonizing Relationships
… with Royal Roads University requirements, this research explored the question: How might I develop my capacity for reciprocity as part of my decolonization journey? Addressing this question was central to my personal and professional growth, as it enabled me to identify and overcome barriers to …
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Weaving Concepts and Competencies for Dialectical Leadership
This first-person thesis explores the research question: How might practising dialectical thinking enhance my leadership practice? Using a first-person action research methodology, I employed reflexive journaling, semistructured interviews with feedback participants, and arts-based methods to …
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Being Superconnected: A First-Person Inquiry into the Influence of the Embodied Principles of Aikido on the Practice of Leading Self
… the context of leadership development. Through first-person action research methodology involving journaling and meditation, focus group discussions with two feedback partners, and semi-structured interviews with two subject matter experts, key findings revealed relational principles of …
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Walking the Path of Humility: White Settler Positionality in Research with Tsartlip First Nation
… insight into how white settlers may conduct research “in a good way” with Indigenous communities amongst a dominant colonial system. Through a first-person/organizational inquiry, I explored, as a non-Indigenous leader in Tsartlip First Nation, how my research process reflected the legacies …
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Scarcity Antidotes: How the Colonial Agenda Demands Our Bodies to be Sites/Sights of Scarcity, and Our Possible Futures
This first-person action research thesis explored the question, “How might I shift from a scarcity mindset to a possibility mindset to strengthen my anti-oppressive practice?” An anti-oppressive paradigm oriented this research to unconscious colonial norms within white supremacy culture that …
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The constructive developmental impact of effectuation on practice
… was utilised as an apparatus of thought. Research was conducted through first-person action research to address the research question, which focused on the growth in complexity of meaning-making and impact on lived experience through effectuation. Merging the concepts of effectuation and …
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Making Leadership Development Accessible Through Reflexive, First-Person Practice: Increasing Awareness of Interconnection, Wise Action, and Conscious Living
This first-person study explored the question, “How might developing my reflexive, conscious, and wise relational leadership enhance my capacities to support others’ leadership in the world?” In support of collective wellness and equitable action, the study emphasizes Etuaptmumk, the Mi’kmaw …
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A critical reflection of the collaborative grey space within a Danish municipal project setting
The purpose of this research was to help me as a pedagogue, innovator and researcher to improve my practice and succeed in doing a better job when helping vulnerable children and youngsters. I also want to contribute to knowledge and learning about how practitioners can carry out social innovation …
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Walking with change: a first-person inquiry into the development of a post-human “frilufts”-life
… in people and organisations. Being a pragmatic, action-oriented person, I experience that my walking practice was valuable in the change processes that I facilitate. Wondering why these walks in the ‘friluft’ were so valuable, I engaged in a first-person inquiry to explore my main question: “How …
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Wounded-healer healing: a first-person narrative inquiry into wounds as places of learning
This thesis is a first person narrative inquiry into my life as a woman in midlife, leaning into and learning from my ‘woundedness’—with a focus on relational-wounds. Making wounds ‘useful’ and the idea of providing ‘hospitality’ as a healer is explored as part of my professional practice as a …
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Challenges to enhancing employee engagement with pension savings in the UK
… maximise their chances of a good outcome. This research project explores employee engagement in the context of pension engagement – the way that pension providers interact with their members. This has been exacerbated by confusions between Defined Benefit (DB) and Defined Contribution (DC) …
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Guts, brains, complexity and creativity: immersive living and learning through the critical lens of first-person inquiry
… processes of interpretation, reflection, and action I engage in as part of my professional practice. In order to achieve that objective, I take a researcher-as-bricoleur stance, assembling a methodological framework that draws from constructivism, phenomenology, learning and social feminist …
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A values based creative learning centred accounting pedagogy
… provides a narrative account of self-study action research – of the practice of lecturing Accounting. The Action Research focused on aligning educational values of dialogue, openness and inclusion to practice, through developing and introducing a creative learning centred accounting …
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Songs of wonder: an inquiry into wonder and magic in everyday andorganisational life
This doctoral research explores which practices might support ‘wonder’ in everyday and organisational life. How do I live my life with a sense of wonder? How do I create spaces of wonder with and for others? How do I create a wonder-full research practice? As an action researcher (Reason & …
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