Welcome to ALARA

Welcome to the home of ALARA - the Action Learning, Action Research Association.

"Action Learning, Action Research Australian Conference Canberra Sept 11-12"

Calling all Action Research and Action Learning students, professionals and academics: if you use these approaches in your community, management and educational work this conference is an essential professional development opportunity.

The Canberra Institute of Technology in partnership with ALARA proudly announces “the Whole Person: educating for sustainability” Reid Campus, Constitution Ave, Canberra.

Meet and work with some of Australia’s most experienced and inspiring action research and action learning figures, for example: Yoland Wadsworth, Bob Dick, Jacques Boulet, Shankar Sankaran and many more esteemed colleagues. Experience a genuine participatory event. Improve your practices in a unique, two-day intensive and grow the Action Research and Action Learning fields in Australia through your collaborative engagement.

Some of our catalyst presenters are as follows:

Yoland Wadsworth - Action Research for Living Systems;

Susan Goff - Enabling Emergent Knowledge and Knowing;

Shankar Sankaran - Systems Thinking for Wicked Problems;

Pamela Kruse - Sustaining the workplace by work life balance;

Elyssebeth Leigh - Bringing the “Whole Person” in to Play;

Ching Kuei Chiang - Sustaining curriculum change through collaboration: an action research approac

Dianne Allen: Can Practice Research inform Research Practice?

Ross Colliver Susan Moore David Lucas Changing frames in environmental governance: Action research with Landcare Networks

And several more - the conference program below gives details

REGISTRATIONS CLOSE COB SEPT 8TH. If you wish to join us, scroll down to the bottom of the home page to find a down-loadable program and registration form. Send to:

CIT Events (02) 6205 2881 (FX)

OR post to:

Events@CIT GPO Box 826, Canberra ACT 2601

OR scan and email this form to:

cit.events@cit.act.edu.au

ALARA is a strategic network of people interested in using action research and action learning to generate collaborative learning, research and action to transform workplaces, schools, colleges, universities, communities, voluntary organisations, governments and businesses.

ALARA's vision is that action research and action learning will be widely used and publicly shared by individuals and groups creating local and global change for the achievement of a more equitable, just, joyful, productive, peaceful and sustainable society.

ALARA is one of the longest-established associations of AL and AR practitioners, growing from an originating base in Queensland Australia where we are incorporated. We host the World Congresses, publish a journal, and our membership is now drawn from 25 countries.

See below also the latest Newsletter and our new ALARA flier so you can spread the word about ALARA to your networks!