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In this piece we share our discovery process as action researchers in an online, global change initiative that emerged during the first lockdown of the Covid-19 pandemic, 2020. In the spirit of sharing our work "in the making" we aim to make visible our own reflection process and the questions that surface from it. In particular, we share and explore our realization that in order to fully serve the transformational intention of the initiative and the research itself, we needed to expand our research framework mid-process. The framework that best serves the emergent and transformative nature of the initiative is one that both supports awareness-based action and generates widely applicable knowledge; that integrates a variety of perspectives on social phenomena (first-, second-, and third-person); and that aims to bring systematic inquiry both to the observable phenomena and the deeper underlying dimensions. The approach requires us to make visible our assumptions and to integrate and validate different epistemologies, including relational, intuitive and aesthetic knowing. As such, the approach to research we suggest here can be thought of as an epistemological framework itself.

An extenswn of logrc programmmng, called "ordered logic programmmng", which mcludes some abstractrons of the object-orrented paradigm, IS presented An ordered program consists of a number of modules (oblects), where each module 1s composed by a number of rules possrbly wrth negated head predicates A sort of 'isa" hterarchy can be defined among the modules m order to allow for rule mnherrtance Therefore, every module sees its own rules as local rules and the rules of the other modules to which It as connected by the "lsa" hierarchy as global rules In this way, as local rules may hide global rules, rt IS possible to deal wrth default properties and exceptions Thrs new approach represents a novel attempt to combme the logtc paradigm wrth the object-oriented one m bwwledge base system Moreover, thrs approach provuies a new ground for explarning some recent proposals of semantics for classical logic programs wrth negation m the rule bodies and gives an mterestmng semantics to logrc programs with negated rule heads