Exploration 1 – Critical Action Research After reading Smith (2013), Klein (2012) and Keifer-Boyd (2014), I gained a general understanding of what action research is. Before doing the readings, I had a limited understanding of the environments or surroundings that action research could take place in. I thought it was a method that only teachers could use, within an educational setting. Luckily, it did not turn out to be that way. Based on the readings and my understanding of them, action research is much more inclusive in the way it can be used by a wide range of people such as teachers, artists, teacher-artists, scholars, researchers, etc. It contains multiple methods of inquiry such as arts-based research, narrative inquiry, a/r/tography, etc. It is a methodology that brings the unconscious details of everyday practice environments to consciousness through the multiple methods that emphasize on reflexivity. Al...