Experiencing Collaborative Inquiry Online: A Literature Review

Abstract

This literature review explores how various challenges and possibilities of enacting collaborative inquiry (CI) in online contexts intersect with this holistic action research method’s aims of transforming participant being, knowing, and doing. This article asks how digital tools and virtual platforms enable and constrain the democratic collaboration, solidarity-in-diversity, and multiple ways of knowing CI strives to cultivate. Findings and discussion offer guidance for conveners of online CIs and highlight further practical considerations.

Embodying Affective Intra-Actions Online: Enacting Posthuman Methods in Virtual Spaces

“…These groups documented their individual actions through multimedia storytelling, journaling, drawing, collaging, curating images, writing poems, and other artful methods (Feller et al, 2004; Hanlin-Rowney et al, 2006). Similar to the small online learning groups using posthuman concepts in various ways, these CIs found artful practices helpful in materializing experiences and creating affective virtual places that recognized participants’ embodied selves and relational embeddedness (Perry, 2023).…”