Recommended Readings

Alcántara, L., (2010). Creating Practical and Operational Knowledge from Action Technologies in Brøgger, B., & Eikeland, O., (Eds.), Labour, Education and Society: Turning to Practice with Action Research, Peter Lang: Frankfurt.

Alcántara, L. (2010). Not Just Talk: How social change agents produce knowledge from cooperative inquiry groups. Koln: Lambert Academic Publishing.

Alcántara, L., Hayes, S., & Yorks, L., (2009). Collaborative inquiry in action. In Mezirow, J. & Taylor, E. (Eds.), Transformative Learning in Action: Insights from Community, Workplace and Higher Education, Jossey-Bass: San Francisco.

Bitterman, J., Rimer, A., & Alcántara, L., (2007). Continuing and community education component of Teaching the Levees: A Curriculum of Civic Engagement to accompany the HBO documentary film event, Spike Lee’s When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts, www.teachingthelevees.org.

Cheng, D. & Alcántara, L., Assessing working students’ college experiences: a grounded theory approach, Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, Bath, June 2007.

Alcantara, L., Expanding Effectiveness of Workplace Learning Projects through Multi-level Application of Action Technologies, 7th International Conference on HRD Research and Practice, Academy of Human Resources Development, University of Tilburg, Netherlands, May 2006.

Kovari, V., Hicks, T., Ferlazzo, L., McGarvey, C., Ochs, M., Alcántara, L. & Yorks, L., (2005), Don’t Just Do

Something, Sit There, Leadership for a Changing World Program, Research Center for Leadership in Action, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University, New York, NY. http:// wagner.nyu.edu/leadership/reports/files/LeadersLearnersGuide.pdf

Alcantara, L. Hayes, S., Yorks, L., Increasing Facilitator Competencies in Cooperative Inquiry, Society for Organizational Learning; Global Forum, Vienna, Austria, September 2005.