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research that is particularly useful for community or work-based theses at master’s, professional

doctorate, and PhD levels. (Zuber-Skerritt, 2018)

My findings from the various CCs in which I, the author, have participated, provide

evidence of PALAR’s utility for disrupting traditional notions of partnership, power relations and

knowledge creation. In Chapter 6 where I write about the implications for leadership and change

we can see through a lens that reveals when the interrelations and our meaning of community in

part is realized within the conversations ‘we’ are having we start to question stories, asking in

whose interests they are told. We can then in a ‘group see’ find different possibilities for changing

the story and therefore changing the world. From a Freirean perspective, chapter 6 poses the need

for a Critical Living “I”aware Praxis (CLIP), a unity of theory and action based on aware

experience which the fulfillment of this process (by which self-liberation theory brought forth as

a skill of practice) is enacted, embodied and finally realized. So, this CLIP as an acronym I’ve

made up may also refer to the act of engaging, applying, exercising, realizing, or practicing ideas

by ‘living them out’ clipping something beyond just a “Kodak moment” but more of an actual

making of a potential new zeitgeist. CLIP has meaning in the political, educational, spiritual and

social life realms as it proposes an ‘emergence’. We can emerge PALAR further into emancipatory

action research (EAR) which within a true unified ‘public hearing’ of vital social issues provides

us with the “glue” needed to integrate thinking and doing. (Ledwith, 2017) With social justice at

its heart, EAR involves critical consciousness to expose structural discrimination by challenging

dominant narratives, a process of denunciation. Creating practical counternarratives of hope and

possibility is a parallel process of annunciation, stories that aspire to better societies built on

fairness and equality, which inspire “I” aware participants to act together to change the course of

our futures.

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