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 Special JITP Issue on Integral Research Published

The Journal of Integral Theory and Practice has published an issue devoted entirely to Integral Research. The articles in this issue detail some of the best work done to date within the Integral Research framework. As guest editor Nick Hedlund writes in the editorial introduction:

"As a result of the developments in the field over the past two years—including this special issue of JITP—we might say that Integral Research is entering a new phase and is now turning toward the crucial questions of metadata interpretation (e.g., the integration of data sets, synthetic meta-analysis, validity/meta-validity, etc.). As such, it could be said that this issue represents the culmination of the first phase of Integral Research as well as the initiation—or at least intimation—of a new one. It is my sincere hope that this issue both inspires and empowers researchers to go deeper with their endeavors, thus more effectively generating integrated knowledge claims and contributing to the ongoing evolution of this propitious field."

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$5000 International Integral Research Grant

The Integral Research Center is proud to announce that it will continue to award, in addition to the JFKU Integral Research Grant, an annual International Integral Research Grant in the amount of up to $5000 USD to a graduate student conducting integral research. Applications are available now and will be due on September 1st, 2010. The winner will be announced October 1st, 2010. The grant money will be awarded by mid-October.

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iTeach Project Initial Results Presented at ITC

Last fall the Integral Research Center launched the iTEACH Project: an ambitious longitudinal study using methods from all eight zones of Integral Methodological Pluralism to assess the transformative effects of integral education in JFK University's Integral Theory Department. iTEACH draws on a variety of proven and popular measures to assess students and faculty across numerous psychometric variables. The results of this ongoing study are being used to improve the developmental potential of the curriculum; support critical-sympathetic inquiry into the construction of psychological knowledge; and invite students and faculty to engage in a collaborative process of inquiry and action in service of optimal individual and collective learning, growth, and transformation. Sean Esbjörn-Hargens, director of the the iTEACH project, and Nick Hedlund, iTEACH coordinator, presented the results of the Fall assessments at the second biennial Integral Theory Conference at John F. Kennedy University in Pleasant Hill, California (July 29-August 1).

International Symposium "Research Across Boundaries" a Success

 On June 15-19 in Luxembourg, the German-based Institute for Integral Studies, which itself is committed to supporting emergent forms of integrative research, hosted an exciting event which brought together representatives of number of integrative research frameworks from across the planet, including Sean Esbjörn-Hargens, Roy Bhaskar, Soren Brier, Mark Edwards, Jennifer Gidley, Gary Hampson, Ronnie Lessem, Markus Molz, and Jonathan Reams, among others.  The symposium created a context wherein emergent forms of “meta-research” were able to enter into deep dialogue with each other, informing and stretching each other into new forms of knowledge enactment.  There are a number of interesting collaborative initiatives emerging from this event, including the possibility of an event exploring the relationship between Integral Theory and Research and Critical Realism.  Stay tuned for more details as they are available.

2010 Integral Research Grant Winner

Lauren Tenney, recipiant of the 2009 JFKU Integral Research Grant, was recently awarded an additional $3000 for her proposal on Interiority and Sustainable Systems. Lauren's research explores the relationship between an individual’s worldview and beliefs (i.e., interiors) and their actions as a participant in a sustainability initiative. Her study uses an integral, mixed methods design to explore this relationship. More specifically, five zones of Integral Methodological Pluralism are employed to disclose the perspective of the researcher, and to collect and analyze both qualitative and quantitative data.