The crc of Unaccompanied Asylum Seekers in Finland

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 140-164
Author(s):  
Mervi Kaukko
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
The Right ◽  
Past Experiences

According to the un Convention on the Right of a Child (crc), all children in Finland have the right to participate in decision-making concerning them. This article shows how the conceptualisation of childhood affects the implementation of the crc, especially Article 12 on participation, focusing on unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in Finland. Universalist notions of childhood and children’s participatory rights overlook the specific socio-historical realities in which these rights exist. Therefore, this article adopts an intersectional view, in which children are seen not as future adults or citizens but as current rights-holders, and acknowledges the complexity of children’s reality where ethnicity, gender and past experiences are interrelated with the conception of childhood. Based on participatory action research with 12 unaccompanied girls, this article shows that they have justified views on their rights during the asylum process, and that those views should be heard and acted upon.

From Substitute to Supported Decision-Making: Participatory Action Research on the Convention on the Rights of Persons With Disabilities

2021 ◽  
pp. 104420732110554
Author(s):  
Benoît Eyraud ◽  
Iuliia Taran
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Care And Support ◽  
Health And Social Care ◽  
The Relationship

In this article, we present findings from a participatory action-research program in France on the exercise of human rights and supported and substitute decision-making, inspired by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (“CRPD”). Bringing together persons with the lived experience of disability, academics, and health and social care and support professionals, the project used the method of “experience-based construction of public problem” to transform experience into collective expertise. This enabled the exploration of support that people in vulnerable situations, whose capacity to exercise their human rights has weakened, need to make decisions in their lives and participate meaningfully in public debate. The relationship between the awareness of rights and exercise of rights is discussed. We argue for the need to balance out the positions of different contributors in participatory action research, in a reasoned manner, by recognizing the scientific and citizen-based participation of all partners.

scholarly journals In Their Own Words: Female Adolescent Empowerment Through Participation in Participatory Action Research for Sexual Health: A Qualitative Meta-Synthesis of YPAR Empowerment Outcomes

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Sexual Health ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Female Adolescent ◽  
Female Adolescents ◽  
Accurate Information ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Speaking Up ◽  
The Right

A qualitative meta-synthesis of Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) on sexual health foregrounds how female adolescents voice and enact their empowerment by their participation. Through the synthesis of six studies, seven themes emerged. The female voices showed a progression of agency beginning with an increased self-awareness and altered lived experiences to supporting, educating others, a keener awareness of others’ experiences, and speaking up or against in-accurate information or authoritarian policies. Female adolescents have the right to be heard, articulate their opinions, the right to practice their culture, and ultimately, the right to influence the constraints on their personal and sexual health development.

GIRRL power! Participatory Action Research for building girl-led community resilience in South Africa

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 237-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kylah Forbes-Genade ◽  
Dewald van Niekerk
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Risk Reduction ◽  
Adolescent Girls ◽  
Vulnerable Populations ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Community Resilience ◽  
Disaster Risk ◽  
Participatory Action

This article aims to crystallize the contributions of the Girls in Risk Reduction Leadership (GIRRL) Program in building resilient communities through the integration of adolescent girls into local level decision-making and action for reducing disaster risk. Disadvantaged adolescent girls carry a double burden derived from vulnerability associated with gender and age within the context of disaster risk. Girls often face greater danger than boys or adults and are perceived as powerless. Their needs go unheard and capacities ignored because of their exclusion from decision-making and social participation. Efforts to reduce risk must be inclusive of the needs of vulnerable populations. Despite global calls for the inclusion of women, children, and youth in risk reduction policy and planning, its application has been insufficient. The GIRRL Program, utilizing Participatory Action Research, helped to catalyze the capacities of girls through personal empowerment to drive the agenda for inclusive involvement of vulnerable populations to build community resilience. The paper will document the contributions of the GIRRL Program to improving community resilience through engaging decision-making, facilitating multi-sectoral understanding of vulnerability and risk, validating the importance of girls in risk reduction, creating capacity to manage girl-led processes, and strengthening risk reduction through local girl-led activities.

YPAR Dreams Deferred? Examining Power Bases for YPAR to Impact Policy and Practice

2021 ◽  
pp. 089590482110199
Author(s):  
Melanie Bertrand ◽  
Brian D. Lozenski
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Youth Participatory Action Research ◽  
Power Bases ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
New Policies

Practitioners and scholars have argued that youth participatory action research (YPAR) challenges systemic injustice in education, as youth and adults research mechanisms of oppression and propose recommendations. However, oftentimes YPAR does not lead to new policies, as institutional decision-makers ignore youth’s moral pleas and empirical evidence. In this conceptual article, we propose a consideration of the ways in which YPAR can mobilize power bases using youth organizing and institutionally sanctioned decision-making. We argue that being attuned to power bases provides YPAR groups a more reliable means, in comparison to moral pleas, to move from YPAR findings to shifts in policy and practice.

Opportunities for youth participatory action research to inform school district decisions

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 317-329
Author(s):  
Alison K. Cohen ◽  
Emily J. Ozer ◽  
Michelle Abraczinskas ◽  
Adam Voight ◽  
Ben Kirshner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Action Research ◽  
School District ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Local Control ◽  
Policy Decision ◽  
Youth Participatory Action Research ◽  
Multiple Sources ◽  
Participatory Action

BackgroundYouth participatory action research (YPAR) is an equity-focused approach intended to generate local knowledge and democratise the production of research evidence. Aims/objectivesWe explore the promise and challenges of YPAR to inform education policy decision making. We focus on California’s Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF)’s Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP) initiative, which requires districts to engage with diverse stakeholders to make decisions. We provide a case example of California’s Stockton Unified School District. Stockton currently uses the Peer Leaders Uniting Students’s YPAR curriculum to inform their LCAP work. Key conclusionsYPAR offers opportunities for new insights, and can be implemented successfully at scale. While Stockton was doing YPAR before LCFF and LCAP existed, they enabled Stockton to expand its YPAR programming, with the goal of using YPAR evidence to provide useful information for educational decision making, policies, and programmes. For example, one YPAR project focused on student tardiness and, using data from multiple sources, proposed lengthening the passing period so that it was physically possible to walk to class in the time permitted. Here, YPAR supports those people most affected by education policy ‐ the students ‐ to have the power to inform decisions that affect them. YPAR can broaden the set of evidence and perspectives that decision makers review to inform policy decisions. We encourage researchers and practitioners to study and create policy structures that support using YPAR to inform policy. We also encourage policy makers to develop more policies that can facilitate the use of YPAR, in education and beyond.

Lineages

2014 ◽  
pp. 517-532 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah M. Zeller-Berkman
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
First Century ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Participatory Processes ◽  
The Right ◽  
Collective Creation ◽  
A Current

Participatory action research (PAR) in the twenty-first century asserts a democratization of who has the right to create knowledge, engage in participatory processes, research social conditions, and take action on issues that impact their lives. PAR is an approach to doing research that is based on a set of commitments. PAR theory and practice is a collective creation, benefiting from the thoughtful work of hundreds of people from more than sixty countries. This chapter traces three of PAR’s historical lineages, explores a current convergence of lineages called critical PAR, and offers some areas for future consideration.

scholarly journals How participatory action research changed our view of the challenges of shared decision-making training

2018 ◽  
Vol 101 (4) ◽  
pp. 639-646 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jette Ammentorp ◽  
Maiken Wolderslund ◽  
Connie Timmermann ◽  
Henry Larsen ◽  
Karina Dahl Steffensen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Shared Decision Making ◽  
Shared Decision ◽  
Participatory Action
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