scholarly journals ‘I always live in a quebrada [favela] and today I am here. So, you can be also here one day’: Exploring pre-service teachers’ perceptions of love for youth from socially vulnerable backgrounds

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 1006-1022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carla Luguetti ◽  
Brent McDonald
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Physical Education ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Sociocultural Context ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Teachers Perceptions ◽  
Embodied Experiences ◽  
Field Notes ◽  
Project Participants ◽  
Democratic Spaces

In recent years, socially critical scholars have argued that love, as a moral basis for socio-critical work, should not be colorblind or power blind and that marginalized populations may understand caring within their sociocultural context, creating spaces for youth and teachers to challenge the racism, sexism, class exploitation and linguicism imposed on their communities. While there is advocacy of love in education and physical education, there is little research that aims to explore how pre-service teachers’ (PSTs’) conceptions change across time. The aim of this study was to explore PSTs’ changing perceptions of love as they worked in an activist sport project with youth from socially vulnerable backgrounds. Participatory action research framed this four-semester research project. Participants included the lead researcher, four PSTs and 110 youth. Data collected included the following: (a) the lead researcher’s field notes; (b) collaborative PSTs’ group meetings; (c) PSTs’ generated artifacts; and (d) PSTs’ focus groups and interviews. Data analysis involved induction and constant comparison. The PSTs understood that love was represented by the following: (a) creating democratic spaces for students to care for each other and their community; (b) trusting and understanding the students, and dreaming possible futures with them; (c) being the best teacher in order to facilitate students’ learning; and (d) making sure all students are included. We concluded that the PSTs’ embodied experiences of oppression and the reflexive experience lived in the activist approach created a space for the PSTs to see themselves in the youth, reconnect with their own identity and develop empathy and love for the diverse youth.

scholarly journals What was Research for the Peasants of Córdoba? Participation in the Early Years of Participatory Action Research

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanne Rappaport
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Collaborative Research ◽  
National Association ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Field Notes ◽  
The Caribbean

Abstract Reflections on participatory and collaborative research commonly neglect to pay attention to the fact that for community researchers, investigation into their own realities frequently takes forms very different from those of academic scholars. They may use methods that are more explicitly intuitive and may depart from approaches that involve the rigorous collection and systematization of data. This paper explores what research might have meant to the Caribbean peasants of the early 1970s with whom Colombian sociologist Orlando Fals Borda developed his approach to what is today called participatory action research. In particular, it focuses on the field notes of Alfonso Salgado Martínez, a leader of the National Association of Peasant Users-Sincelejo Line (ANUC, Asociación Nacional de Usuarios Campesinos-Línea Sincelejo), juxtaposing them to his published work, both read in comparison to Fals Borda's own notes and writings.

Breaking Out

2009 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 269-290
Author(s):  
Karen Meyer ◽  
Lynn Fels
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Action Research Project ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Women's Voices ◽  
Women In Prison

This article is about context, power located within institutions, and complexities of interpretation tightly twisted in a participatory action research project with women in prison. This narrative speaks to the encounter between us and the women, the unfamiliarity each of us had with the other's language, and the joint challenge to ‘decode’ transcripts of incarcerated women's voices. As action researchers we were determined, indeed even smugly pleased, to be undertaking this venture of tutelage, of introducing the women as co-researchers to methods of data analysis. However, we watched a shifting of power (empowerment), as the women became the true researchers through their proximity to and conversations with the transcripts as raw realities, narratives that acknowledged their lives, which we knew only as data. In the end, we came away unsettled, with deeper awareness for the complexity of interpreting ‘data,’ which constitutes local knowing, the unsaid, and the unspeakable.

scholarly journals “Now, I’m Magazine Detective the Whole Time”: Listening and Responding to Young People’s Complex Experiences of Popular Physical Culture

2013 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 394-418 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eimear Enright ◽  
Mary O’Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Physical Education ◽  
Physical Culture ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Action Research Project ◽  
Making Meaning ◽  
Audio Recordings ◽  
Methodological Tool ◽  
Field Notes ◽  
A Site

Popular physical culture serves as a site, subject and medium for young people’s learning (Sandford & Rich, 2006) and impacts their relationship with physical education, physical activity and the construction of their embodied identities. This paper addresses the potential of scrapbooking as a pedagogical and methodological tool to facilitate physical education researchers and teachers to listen to, and better understand and respond to extend students’ existing knowledge of, and critical engagement with popular physical culture. The data draws from a three year Participatory Action Research project that was undertaken in an urban, secondary school and was designed to engage 41 girls (aged 15–19) in understanding, critiquing and transforming aspects of their lives that influenced their perspectives of their bodies and their physical activity and physical education engagement. In this paper the focus is on the engagement of eleven of these girls in a five week popular physical culture unit. The students’ scrapbooks, audio-recordings of classes, a guided conversation, and field notes constitute the data sources. Findings suggest scrapbooking has the potential to allow researchers access, understand and respond to students’ perspectives on popular physical culture and their lives in a way that other methods may not. Pedagogically, scrapbooking supported students in critically appraising and making meaning of “scraps” of popular physical culture.

Formation of Practical Experience With Teachers of Physical Education in the Room of Psychomotricity in Childish Education

2021 ◽  
pp. 167-186
Author(s):  
Carmen Cecilia Roz Faraco ◽  
Nazaret Martínez-Heredia
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Physical Education ◽  
Training Program ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Practical Experience ◽  
Pedagogical Practice ◽  
Cycle Model ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
The Creation

The main objective of this research is the design of a training program for teachers of education physics in the institution of psychomotor circuits within the psychomotor room in the Educational Center Santa Rosa School (Venezuela) using a methodology based on participatory action research capable of handling the most elementary and obvious didactic situations determined and delimited by the actors themselves based on the implementation of the cycle model—reflection-practice-observation-execution—which transforms the teachers in protagonist and integrates the figure of the educational advisor in the process of formation. The results show the change from a poorly supported pedagogical practice to an enriched one where the creation of a method of systematization of information stands out, which made his work more effective due to the creation of a series of formats for evaluation and observation relevant to the population and its performance.

Questioning Photovoice Research

2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (8) ◽  
pp. 1019-1030 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin A. Evans-Agnew ◽  
Marie-Anne S. Rosemberg
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Health Equity ◽  
Participatory Research ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Manuscript Publication

Photovoice is an important participatory research tool for advancing health equity. Our purpose is to critically review how participant voice is promoted through the photovoice process of taking and discussing photos and adding text/captions. PubMed, Scopus, PsycINFO, and Web of Science databases were searched from the years 2008 to 2014 using the keywords photovoice, photonovella, photovoice and social justice, and photovoice and participatory action research. Research articles were reviewed for how participant voice was (a) analyzed, (b) exhibited in community forums, and (c) disseminated through published manuscripts. Of 21 studies, 13 described participant voice in the data analysis, 14 described participants’ control over exhibiting photo-texts, seven manuscripts included a comprehensive set of photo-texts, and none described participant input on choice of manuscript photo-texts. Photovoice designs vary in the advancement of participant voice, with the least advancement occurring in manuscript publication. Future photovoice researchers should expand approaches to advancing participant voice.

scholarly journals ANALISIS MODEL PENGELOLAAN ZAKAT, INFAQ DAN SHADAQAH (ZIS) DI MESJID AL ISTIQOMAH KABUPATEN BANDUNG BARAT

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Amullah Hayatudin ◽  
Arif Rijal Anshori
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Management Model ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
The People ◽  
Excellent Service ◽  
Data Collection Technique ◽  
The Right

This research was conducted as an effort to find the right model in the management of Zakat, Infaq, and Sadaqah (ZIS) at the Al Istiqomah Mosque, Taman Bunga Cilame districts of West Bandung. With the hope of an appropriate model in the management of Zakat, Infaq, and Shadaqah (ZIS) funds. The purpose of Zakat, Infaq, and Shadaqah (ZIS) as a means of worship and social means, namely as a means to alleviate poverty and prosper the people can be achieved. The method used by researchers is qualitative, the data collection technique is observation (observation), interview (interview), and documentation, in analyzing the data the researcher uses qualitative data analysis is inductive. In managing ZIS funds, three things must be considered by DKM administrators, namely: Excellent service for muzakki and mustahik, funds (ZIS) must be utilized properly, transparently, creatively, and innovatively. With the management model as follows: Providing additional capital to mustahik by using aqad Mudharabah or Musyarakah; Assistance with the Participatory Action Research (PAR) approach to mustahik.

scholarly journals Conceptualizing Formative Blended Assessment (FBA) in Saudi EFL

2020 ◽  
pp. 65-82
Author(s):  
Mansoor S. Almalki ◽  
Paul Gruba
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Assessment Tasks ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Qualitative Data Analysis Software ◽  
Core Characteristics

This chapter sets out a conceptual framework for the design and use of ‘blended assessments' that seek to create formative activities that can be characterized by shifting modalities of presentation, variations in time and action, and moves from individual to group work. The study's framing is built upon longitudinal participatory action research based on the research questions. In addition to auto-ethnographic observations, 13 Saudi participants—three course coordinators, seven instructors, and three students—were asked to participate in focus groups and individual interviews. Using qualitative data analysis software, three core characteristics of formative blended assessment were identified: (1) multi-modal activities, flexibility, and peer encouragement, for example, were seen to be an ‘advantage'; (2) alignment of pedagogies and assessment tasks were perceived in a ‘compatibility' theme; and (3) the possibility of dishonest behaviors and administrative challenges were classed under ‘complexity'.

scholarly journals Extending Youth Voices in a Participatory Thematic Analysis Approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 160940692093461 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Liebenberg ◽  
Aliya Jamal ◽  
Janice Ikeda
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Data Gathering ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Youth Engagement ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Thoughtful Discussion

Recent decades have seen a more thoughtful discussion regarding the inclusion of children and youth in research and decision making, challenging how we conduct child and youth-focused studies. Included is a focus on Youth Participatory Action Research approaches and how they facilitate engagement of child and youth voice. Similarly, there is a smaller yet equally important questioning of how we understand “voice,” drawing attention to the conceptualization of “voice,” and the need to account for its social positioning and construction. Despite these various advances, current discussions focus predominantly on research design and data gathering, with an emerging focus on the dissemination of findings. Discussions focused specifically on data analysis remain limited. This omission seems important, given the bridge analysis forms between data gathering and dissemination of findings, and how this impacts youth engagement in the research process overall. By not considering more thoughtfully the ways in which children do or do not engage in the analysis of their data, how are we impacting the positioning of their “voice” in the findings? Similarly, how does our analysis unintentionally strengthen or undermine the platform from which youth share their findings, especially with those in positions of power? In response to these questions, we use this article to consider data analysis in relation to voice and subsequent knowledge production. We also share our approach to participatory thematic analysis in the Spaces & Places research project, a participatory action research program with Indigenous youth in three communities of Atlantic Canada. Through the discussion and exemplar, we hope to contribute to how researchers consider “voice,” ours and those of child and youth collaborators, and the ways in which we can account for both in the analysis process, and enhance the voices of children and youth as knowledge brokers in the dissemination that follows.

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