Alfredo Ortiz Aragón
Biographic Data
| ID | 4144898 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alfredo Ortiz Aragón |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alfredo Ortiz |
| FAMILY NAME | Aragón |
| SIGNATURE | ARAGÓN A O |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Incarnate Word |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0406-9948 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
More than a Market, It’s a Movement—A Community Realizing Its Power to Self-Determination Through Action Research
This paper explores amaha’s experience as a co-organizer of a community-driven process from which the Gem City Market—a community/worker-owned cooperative grocery store in Dayton, Ohio—emerged. Using a simple action research (AR) explanatory model co-developed by Alfredo, we show how by getting people involved in addressing issues that affect their everyday lives, participatory methods can help increase community ownership, hope, and power. This …
Hospitality and Hope
We are excited to introduce 19 original articles that present a compelling argument for incorporating the values, theories, and practices of participatory action research and critical qualitative research into our shared commitment to create positive change in times of crisis. In this collection, you will find diverse stakeholders engaging in community-engaged education and research, pushing and broadening epistemological boundaries of what is co…
Sembrando y Cosechando Amor
Sembrando Amor was a collaborative effort between Community Experts, public health professionals, and university-based action researchers, each of whom made explicit decisions to work outside of their normal roles for the good of the broader community and of our shared Community-Based Participatory Action Research (CBPAR) project. The project, which included a Photovoice and cartoon zining process, centers community experiences and voices with th…
Developing Empathy and Allyship in Future Health Providers Through Direct Community Engagement to Rewrite the Script for Equitable Healthcare
“Rewriting the Script” (RWS) is a participatory action education approach that brings together community members who have faced inequitable treatment in the healthcare system and undergraduate pre-professional healthcare students, to have critical conversations on how to make healthcare more equitable. RWS builds on a prior digital storytelling project that revealed how parents of children with autism face a vicious cycle as they try to access he…
Participatory Action Researchers Looking for a Home at Icqi
In this article we share how we as participatory action researchers and organizers of the (p)AR Special Interest Group (SIG) came to understand our process of seeking a home at the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (ICQI) from 2021 to 2024. As we reflected, we became aware that we were simultaneously trying to enrich our (p)AR practice with extended epistemologies from the critical qualitative research world, while trying to nudge tha…
Flowing With the River’s Go
In this article, we share methodological lessons learned from a participatory regional planning process which was intended to produce a regional strategy for a multiactor program on human rights and rural development in the Southern Highlands of Peru, funded by the Belgian solidarity organization Broederlijk Delen (BD). The underlying goal of the planning process, which was also funded by BD, was to shift the practices of planning, decision makin…
Participatory Action Research
What is good action research
Refreshing our purpose with Action Research journal Our purpose since inception with this international, peer-reviewed journal is to offer a forum for participative, action-oriented inquiry into questions that matter-questions relevant to people in the conduct of their lives, that enable them to flourish in their organizations and communities, and that evince a deep concern for the wider ecology. Our purpose has not changed. The world around the …
Bridging the territory between me, we, and living earth
From doing to writing action research
Untaming aid through action research
Planned international development—Official Development Assistance—pretends to address complex, intergenerational problems. The pretense is endemic to, and necessary for, the continuation of the development enterprise, frequently leading to docile projects. Official Development Assistance’s methodologies and methods are ill-matched for confronting such problems, while those of action research are well-suited to the task. Yet Official Development A…
Introduction
This article examines the threads that run through the seven different accounts of action research that make up this IDS Bulletin. It links the practice of action research to the power and positionality of action research facilitators. It argues that action research must explore the flows and dynamics of power in order to ensure that any changes are not superficial. It is explicit that action research involves risks and it is important to be mind…
Shifting Identity from Within the Conversational Flow of Organisational Complexity
This article draws on an organisational strengthening process I carried out as part of my PhD research, which was intended to develop capacity-building methodology to help organisations grapple with their complex social change realities. Focused on conversations generated in two methodological moments in a particular workshop, I share how co-researcher Juan Carlos Giles and I used systemic methodological experimentation to generate critical organ…
A ‘Systemic Theories of Change’ Approach for Purposeful Capacity Development
In this article, we present an emergent capacity development approach that we are developing through participatory action research in Peru and Ecuador, which we call ‘systemic theories of change’ (STOC), for organisational capacity development. We argue that capacity development should be understood as systemic learning. The STOC approach promotes reflection about how we as individuals, organisations, and broader social groups and societal config…
A Case for Surfacing Theories of Change for Purposeful Organisational Capacity Development
What are the capacities of an effective social change organisation (SCO)? Some SCOs may value strategic planning capacities, while others financial accountability to donors, improved teamwork, or networking capacities. But do the different capacities that SCOs seek purposefully support meaningful social change? How much of what SCOs deem as ‘worth strengthening’ is based on linear thinking, or unhealthy power interests, or what donors want them t…
What is good action research
Refreshing our purpose with Action Research journal Our purpose since inception with this international, peer-reviewed journal is to offer a forum for participative, action-oriented inquiry into questions that matter-questions relevant to people in the conduct of their lives, that enable them to flourish in their organizations and communities, and that evince a deep concern for the wider ecology. Our purpose has not changed. The world around the …
From doing to writing action research
Untaming aid through action research
Planned international development—Official Development Assistance—pretends to address complex, intergenerational problems. The pretense is endemic to, and necessary for, the continuation of the development enterprise, frequently leading to docile projects. Official Development Assistance’s methodologies and methods are ill-matched for confronting such problems, while those of action research are well-suited to the task. Yet Official Development A…
A ‘Systemic Theories of Change’ Approach for Purposeful Capacity Development
In this article, we present an emergent capacity development approach that we are developing through participatory action research in Peru and Ecuador, which we call ‘systemic theories of change’ (STOC), for organisational capacity development. We argue that capacity development should be understood as systemic learning. The STOC approach promotes reflection about how we as individuals, organisations, and broader social groups and societal config…
A Case for Surfacing Theories of Change for Purposeful Organisational Capacity Development
What are the capacities of an effective social change organisation (SCO)? Some SCOs may value strategic planning capacities, while others financial accountability to donors, improved teamwork, or networking capacities. But do the different capacities that SCOs seek purposefully support meaningful social change? How much of what SCOs deem as ‘worth strengthening’ is based on linear thinking, or unhealthy power interests, or what donors want them t…
Introduction
This article examines the threads that run through the seven different accounts of action research that make up this IDS Bulletin. It links the practice of action research to the power and positionality of action research facilitators. It argues that action research must explore the flows and dynamics of power in order to ensure that any changes are not superficial. It is explicit that action research involves risks and it is important to be mind…
Bridging the territory between me, we, and living earth
A ‘Systemic Theories of Change’ Approach for Purposeful Capacity Development
In this article, we present an emergent capacity development approach that we are developing through participatory action research in Peru and Ecuador, which we call ‘systemic theories of change’ (STOC), for organisational capacity development. We argue that capacity development should be understood as systemic learning. The STOC approach promotes reflection about how we as individuals, organisations, and broader social groups and societal config…
A Case for Surfacing Theories of Change for Purposeful Organisational Capacity Development
What are the capacities of an effective social change organisation (SCO)? Some SCOs may value strategic planning capacities, while others financial accountability to donors, improved teamwork, or networking capacities. But do the different capacities that SCOs seek purposefully support meaningful social change? How much of what SCOs deem as ‘worth strengthening’ is based on linear thinking, or unhealthy power interests, or what donors want them t…
Introduction
This article examines the threads that run through the seven different accounts of action research that make up this IDS Bulletin. It links the practice of action research to the power and positionality of action research facilitators. It argues that action research must explore the flows and dynamics of power in order to ensure that any changes are not superficial. It is explicit that action research involves risks and it is important to be mind…
Shifting Identity from Within the Conversational Flow of Organisational Complexity
This article draws on an organisational strengthening process I carried out as part of my PhD research, which was intended to develop capacity-building methodology to help organisations grapple with their complex social change realities. Focused on conversations generated in two methodological moments in a particular workshop, I share how co-researcher Juan Carlos Giles and I used systemic methodological experimentation to generate critical organ…
Untaming aid through action research
Planned international development—Official Development Assistance—pretends to address complex, intergenerational problems. The pretense is endemic to, and necessary for, the continuation of the development enterprise, frequently leading to docile projects. Official Development Assistance’s methodologies and methods are ill-matched for confronting such problems, while those of action research are well-suited to the task. Yet Official Development A…
From doing to writing action research
What is good action research
Refreshing our purpose with Action Research journal Our purpose since inception with this international, peer-reviewed journal is to offer a forum for participative, action-oriented inquiry into questions that matter-questions relevant to people in the conduct of their lives, that enable them to flourish in their organizations and communities, and that evince a deep concern for the wider ecology. Our purpose has not changed. The world around the …
Bridging the territory between me, we, and living earth
Flowing With the River’s Go
In this article, we share methodological lessons learned from a participatory regional planning process which was intended to produce a regional strategy for a multiactor program on human rights and rural development in the Southern Highlands of Peru, funded by the Belgian solidarity organization Broederlijk Delen (BD). The underlying goal of the planning process, which was also funded by BD, was to shift the practices of planning, decision makin…
Participatory Action Research
Participatory Action Researchers Looking for a Home at Icqi
In this article we share how we as participatory action researchers and organizers of the (p)AR Special Interest Group (SIG) came to understand our process of seeking a home at the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (ICQI) from 2021 to 2024. As we reflected, we became aware that we were simultaneously trying to enrich our (p)AR practice with extended epistemologies from the critical qualitative research world, while trying to nudge tha…
More than a Market, It’s a Movement—A Community Realizing Its Power to Self-Determination Through Action Research
This paper explores amaha’s experience as a co-organizer of a community-driven process from which the Gem City Market—a community/worker-owned cooperative grocery store in Dayton, Ohio—emerged. Using a simple action research (AR) explanatory model co-developed by Alfredo, we show how by getting people involved in addressing issues that affect their everyday lives, participatory methods can help increase community ownership, hope, and power. This …
Hospitality and Hope
We are excited to introduce 19 original articles that present a compelling argument for incorporating the values, theories, and practices of participatory action research and critical qualitative research into our shared commitment to create positive change in times of crisis. In this collection, you will find diverse stakeholders engaging in community-engaged education and research, pushing and broadening epistemological boundaries of what is co…
Sembrando y Cosechando Amor
Sembrando Amor was a collaborative effort between Community Experts, public health professionals, and university-based action researchers, each of whom made explicit decisions to work outside of their normal roles for the good of the broader community and of our shared Community-Based Participatory Action Research (CBPAR) project. The project, which included a Photovoice and cartoon zining process, centers community experiences and voices with th…
Developing Empathy and Allyship in Future Health Providers Through Direct Community Engagement to Rewrite the Script for Equitable Healthcare
“Rewriting the Script” (RWS) is a participatory action education approach that brings together community members who have faced inequitable treatment in the healthcare system and undergraduate pre-professional healthcare students, to have critical conversations on how to make healthcare more equitable. RWS builds on a prior digital storytelling project that revealed how parents of children with autism face a vicious cycle as they try to access he…
Action research (9 works) · Participatory Visual Research Methods (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Participatory action research (8 works) · Citizen journalism (7 works) · Community Health and Development (7 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Public relations (5 works) · Action (physics (4 works)