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Maintaining a Network of Critical Connections over Time and Space: The Case of CARN, the Collaborative Action Research Network

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Here, three members of Collaborative Action Research Network (CARN)’s Co-ordinating Group reflect on CARN’s history as a developing network. We outline its philosophical and value-based underpinnings and its growth across different professional and practice contexts. We present a narrative of change, tracing tensions over its governance, its response to crisis, its intent to embrace diversity, and, more recently, the challenges posed by upholding its values in a world increasingly dominated by market forces and computer-mediated communications . We discuss these in relation to the CARN Study Day scheme and our recent action research consultation with members and supporters. Despite the amplification of offline hegemony in the online world, we argue that networks such as CARN have distinctive insights for developing new communicative space s that combine virtual with face-to-face contact.

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  1. University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland

    Ruth Balogh

  2. Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, Lancashire, UK

    Mary McAteer

  3. Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK

    Una Hanley

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  1. School of Leadership & Education Sciences, University of San Diego, San Diego, California, USA

    Lonnie L. Rowell

  2. School of Education, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada

    Catherine D. Bruce

  3. Education Department, Moravian College, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA

    Joseph M. Shosh

  4. Center for Collaborative Action Research, Pepperdine University, Los Angeles, California, USA

    Margaret M. Riel

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Balogh, R., McAteer, M., Hanley, U. (2017). Maintaining a Network of Critical Connections over Time and Space: The Case of CARN, the Collaborative Action Research Network. In: Rowell, L., Bruce, C., Shosh, J., Riel, M. (eds) The Palgrave International Handbook of Action Research. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-40523-4_25

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