Welcome to ALARA

Welcome to the home of ALARA - the Action Learning, Action Research Association. Action research seeks understanding and change. It works with those who live and work in a situation, supporting their inquiry and action.

Delegates at ALARA conferences frequently comment on the diversity amongst their fellow delegates, the strong sense of collegiality, and the personal and professional inspiration the event produces in them. The 2012 Conference will build on these foundations to produce sustainable outcomes for participants.

ALARA now calls for presentations and panel members. The attached document ALARA 2012 Aust Conference Call for Presentations (see below) provides more information about the Conference.

Current priorities for the ALARA Management Committee are:

1) Getting members connected to our first online version of ALARj (our journal). Using the magnificent Open Journal System platform, the next journal edition is available online. Consider becoming a financial member, for our modest membership fee of $145/pa, and access the latest critical thinking in action research and action learning.

2) A new web presence for ALARA. This existing site runs on drupal 5, which at 5 years of age is getting old and cranky. Time for a transition to something new, but what? Various action research projects are underway to work out what the AR/AL community needs. See your Web Services Coordinator's exploration of how to find colleagues to talk with, share your ideas on what ALARA's website should look like, or comment on our overall approach to developing a web presence. 

About ALARA. 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. See "ALARA Flyer" below for more, or keep browsing this website.