Participatory action research

By F. Baum, Colin MacDougall, Danielle Smith. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 2006

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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An evaluation of monetary and non-monetary techniques for assessing the importance of biodiversity and ecosystem services to people in countries with developing economies (2012, background): “…promote dialogue and deliberation with local people and decision-makers thus fostering ownership and responsibility of problems; promote learning and awareness; and build local capacity to analyse problems and make more effective collective decisions (Chambers, 1997; Reed, 2008; Wadsworth, 1998).”
Now I see it, now I don’t: researcher’s position and reflexivity in qualitative research (2015, background): “While conducting a study as outsiders prevented role confusion and partiality of view (Kemmis and McTaggart, 2000; Padgett, 2008), it also deprived us of the benefits that come with familiarity.”
Postsecondary education across the USA: Experiences of adults with disabilities (2005, positive): “Involving people with disabilities in the planning, development and implementation of research activities increases the relevance of research ﬁndings, making the results more meaningful to the target population, while empowering participants to use this knowledge to enhance their own lives [23].”
Evaluating sustainability transitions pathways: Bridging analytical approaches to address governance challenges (2015, neutral): “Core messages (Argyris et al., 1985; Reason and Bradbury, 2001; Ozanne and Saatcioglu, 2008; Raven et al., 2008; Liedtke et al., 2014): In general, the range of perspectives and methods we wish to group under initiative-based learning is less uni ﬁ ed and more heterogeneous than modelling and…”
Qualitative research in counseling psychology: A primer on research paradigms and philosophy of science (2005, background): “Basic to the critical theorist is the belief in a constructed lived experience that is mediated by power relations within social and historical contexts (Kemmis & McTaggart, 2000).”
The value and challenges of participatory research: strengthening its practice. (2008, background): “Among the approaches included within this rubric are CBPR (52, 88), participatory rural appraisal (13), empowerment evaluation (29, 30), PR (41), participatory action research (61), community-partnered PR (59), cooperative inquiry (46), dialectical inquiry”
REVIEW: Questionnaires in ecology: a review of past use and recommendations for best practice (2005, background): “1995; Holland & Blackburn 1998; Chambers 2002), in-depth interviews (Rubin & Rubin 1995), action research (Whyte 1991) and focus groups (Barbour & Kitzinger 1999; Bloor et al .”
Qualitative Research Designs (2007, methodology): “PAR is emancipatory in that it helps individuals to “recover, and release themselves, from the constraints or irrational, unproductive, unjust, and unsatisfying social structures that limit their selfdevelopment and self determination” (Kemmis & McTaggart, 2000, p. 597).”
Justifying Knowledge, Justifying Method, Taking Action: Epistemologies, Methodologies, and Methods in Qualitative Research (2007, neutral): “…various ethnographies (Carspecken, 1996; Hammersley & Atkinson, 1995; McCall, 2000); 4. participatory action research traditions (Dick, 2003; Kemmis & McTaggart, 2000); 5. various phenomenological or phenomenographic traditions (Giorgi, 1985; Moutsakas, 1994; Valle & Hailing, 1989); and 6.…”
Practicing participatory action research (2005, background): “The starting point for PAR was in the late 1960s, within a more general questioning of positivism and calls for member participation in research aimed more toward practical benefits for the people in communities and organizations (Calhoun & Karaganis, 2001; Fals-Borda, 2001; Susman & Evered, 1978; W”
Re-inventing model-based decision support with Australian dryland farmers. 1. Changing intervention concepts during 17 years of action research (2009, background): “…practice—its ‘situatedness’—was reflected in a series of name changes: from Farming Systems Research to OnFarm Client-Oriented Research (OFCOR) (Merrill-Sands and McAllister 1988), Participatory Action Research (PAR) (Whyte 1991, 1997), and Farmer Participatory Research (FPR) (Okali et al. 1994).”
Understanding poverty and promoting poverty alleviation through transformative consumer research (2013, methodology): “– Helping the poor articulate and communicate the products and services they seek from governments, the development community, or private enterprise through greater adoption of methods that tap into the voice of the consumer (see Ozanne & Anderson, 2010; Ozanne & Saatcioglu, 2008).”
An Emancipatory Communitarian Approach to Vocational Development Theory, Research, and Practice (2005, background): “Similar to participatory action research, one of the most exciting methods of research amenable to fulfilling a social justice agenda is social action research, which enables researchers and the targets of the investigations to understand and change systems (Whyte, 1991).”
Constructing new professional identities through self‐study: from teacher to teacher educator (2010, methodology): “According to Russell (2004), self-study emerged from and built on the work undertaken in fields such as reflective practice (for example, Dewey, 1933; Schön, 1983, 1987), action research (for example, Kemmis & McTaggart 1988, 2000) and practitioner research (for example, CochranSmith & Lytle, 1993).”
The qualitative revolution and psychology: Science, politics, and ethics. (2011, methodology): “…venues that are influencing psychology broadly, such as APA’s handbook on qualitative research methods (Camic et al., 2003), which features Gilligan’s Listening Guide method (Gilligan, Spencer, Weinberg, & Bertsch, 2003) and Fine’s participatory action research methods (Fine et al., 2003).”