TY - JOUR AU - Ogawa, Akihiro PY - 2022/11/30 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Introduction: Learning, Practicing, Connecting, and Passing Along JF - Action Learning and Action Research Journal JA - ALARj VL - 28 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - UR - https://alarj.alarassociation.org/index.php/alarj/article/view/367 SP - 16-38 AB - <p>This paper presents my action research (AR) journey – what led me to this paradigm, the key figures I have encountered, and my subsequent work over the past twenty years both in Japan and Australia. While developing my research program on civil society in contemporary democracies, I have committed to AR since my graduate days in the early 2000s. Based on my AR training under Davydd Greenwood at Cornell University, I have been conducting an AR project for almost two decades now in Tokyo, which started originally as a doctoral project. Since 2016, I have been coordinating a PhD seminar on AR at the University of Melbourne. I see this as me passing on my AR knowledge and experiences to the next generation of AR-minded scholars as well as connecting them to veteran AR scholars in Australia. Thus, I can clearly see a new research culture emerging from the new generation.</p> ER -