Participatory+Action+Research

The SSHRC-CURA has funded the VOICE project with a Participatory Action Research design. In as far as possible, it is important to keep the main objectives and practices of this type of research in the minds of the researchers, particularly as the method widely departs from many forms of qualitative and quantitative academic research. Researchers who have been trained in conventional methods can find PAR messy and challenging but also rewarding. To successfully conduct a PAR project all participant must understand the method.


 * The VOICE-IT project proposal outlines the reasons for selecting PAR.**


 * Conventional academic research has not adequately addressed critical issues in the substantive area of education in FNMI communities.
 * The abundant research that has been done is bound up in journals or academic language that renders it unavailable for fostering necessary change
 * Community members must be actively included in research about their community
 * FNMI communities have been exploited in the past and have developed protocols to ensure such exploitation is not perpetuated.


 * Guiding principles and theoretical underpinnings of of PAR**

Critical Pedagogy Decolonization Emancipatory Education Co-creation of knowledge Balancing of power relationships in research.Ownership, control, access and possession (OCAP) of data or self determination applied to research. Epistemological Lifeboat


 * Definitions, descriptions and examples of PAR**

[|Action Research Electronic Reader] Participatory Action Research on Wikipedia Repository of resources for PAR [|Ownership Control Access and Possession or Self-Determination Applied to Research.]
 * Definitions and Descriptions**


 * Examples**

Free Child Project

References:

McDonagh, J., & Coghlan, D. (2001). The Art of Clinical Inquiry in Information Technology-related Change. //Handbook of action research// (pp. 372-378). Sage Publications. Reason, P., & Bradbury, H. (Eds.). (2007). //Handbook of Action Research - Concise Paperback Edition//. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.