scholarly journals Exploring teachers’ experiences of action research

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 408-422
Author(s):  
Sinéad Vaughan
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Education System ◽  
English Education ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Action Research Project ◽  
Teachers Experiences ◽  
Critical Participatory Action Research ◽  
State Schools

Through exploring the author’s experiences of working with five teachers who undertook an action research project for their master’s dissertations, this article establishes that it is possible for critical participatory action research to address issues around the perceived de-professionalization of teachers, and challenge the exploitative nature of education within English state schools. Semi-structured interviews with five teachers showed that this was an empowering experience, which provided a number of benefits, including an increased sense of professionalism, and that they would recommend action research to other teachers. Their experiences and insights have been used to discuss options for implementing action research more widely, identifying potential challenges and suggesting possible solutions. Based on both sets of experiences, I suggest that it would be valuable for action research to be implemented more widely within the English education system, as a method of addressing teachers’ frustrations around accountability and performativity.

Resident experts: The potential of critical Participatory Action Research to inform public housing research and practice

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 414-432 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amie Thurber ◽  
Leslie Collins ◽  
Marilyn Greer ◽  
Demetrese McKnight ◽  
Darlene Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Public Housing ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Action Research Project ◽  
The People ◽  
History Of ◽  
Housing Research ◽  
Critical Participatory Action Research

Policies affecting those living in poverty are often created without the direct and meaningful participation of the people meant to be served. This has been especially the case with public housing. To contextualize the need for alternative approaches to inquiry, we begin by examining the history of public housing through the lens of oppression and present critical Participatory Action Research as an alternative approach to research and policy-making. We provide a case study of a critical Participatory Action Research project sited in a public housing project slated for redevelopment. We conclude that engaging “resident experts” in the research process heightened the validity and credibility of the findings, amplified residents' self-determination, and provided greater congruence between the researchers' social justice values and our research methods.

scholarly journals Barriers and Facilitators for Wheelchair Users in Bangladesh: A Participatory Action Research Project

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 24-44
Author(s):  
Heather Michelle Aldersey ◽  
Mohammad Morshedul Quadir ◽  
Soniya Akter ◽  
Rabiul Hossain Mozumder ◽  
Nayma Nazneen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Public Transportation ◽  
Barriers And Facilitators ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Action Research Project ◽  
Wheelchair Users ◽  
Barriers To Access

Purpose: People who use wheelchairs face a range of physical, social, and economic barriers to regular participation in their communities. These barriers may be more acute in countries such as Bangladesh which are affected by poverty and often lack the physical infrastructure or resources necessary to create inclusive or accessible environments. This research aimed to identify: (a) the barriers and facilitators to accessibility faced by wheelchair users in Bangladesh; (b) how these barriers affect the inclusion of wheelchair users in Bangladeshi society; and (c) what could be done to improve accessibility and inclusion for wheelchair users in Bangladesh.Methods:  This participatory action research (PAR) project used Photovoice and semi-structured interviews to identify barriers and facilitators to accessibility for people who use wheelchairs in Bangladesh.Results: Participants mentioned a number of barriers in public spaces, such as roads, missing or inadequate ramps, inaccessible restrooms, and negative attitudes. There were also participants who had made their home environments more accessible with accommodations such as ramps, arrangement of space, and low countertops/work spaces. Women wheelchair users seemed to face greater barriers to access, as compared to men, in a range of community spaces and activities. Participants’ recommendations for improvement targeted government stakeholders and included greater focus on road infrastructure, particularly during flooding in the rainy season, and modifications to the public transportation system.Conclusion: A key goal of the study was to identify barriers and facilitators, and use the information gathered to promote social change on the ground. Future research and action should encourage more people to get involved in removing barriers for people with disabilities, in Bangladesh as well as globally.

Actieonderzoek in leefstijlonderzoek is geen sinecure

KWALON ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Famke van Lieshout ◽  
Gaby Jacobs ◽  
Shaun Cardiff
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Healthy Lifestyle ◽  
Multiple Perspectives ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Action Research Project ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Clinical Practice Setting ◽  
Learning Together

Action research in lifestyle research is no sinecure. Response to Kromme et al.: ‘Changing together is learning together’, a participatory action research project This is a reply to the contribution entitled: ‘Learning together is changing together: A participatory action research project on the role of the internist in promoting a healthy lifestyle’. Here the authors highlight the complexity of facilitating participatory action research (PAR) in a clinical practice setting and reflect on the first three stages of their research through eight principles that could guide PAR, as described by Van Lieshout et al. (2017). As we developed these principles, we explain the principles of participation, reflexivity, contextuality and transformation in greater detail in relation to the context of this study. The authors made suggestions to change the five-phased model of PAR to get a better grip on the process. The authors rightly highlighted some limitations in the labeling of some phases. However, it is the reflexivity on the multiple perspectives that facilitators encounter and the relationships they engage with during the process, as well as acknowledging the iterative process of PAR, which needs to be embraced and experienced during the entire process of study.

scholarly journals Implementasi Komunikasi Pemasaran Lembaga Pendidikan Informal “Seaman’s English Education Indonesia ”

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-62
Author(s):  
Aldi Satrio Herlambang
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
English Language ◽  
English Education ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
Brand Awareness ◽  
Marketing Communication ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Existing Problems ◽  
Communication Program

Seaman’s English Education Indonesia  (SEE Indonesia) is an informal educational institution located in North Jakarta that offers a variety of courses for seafarers, mainly the Marlins Test course, and an English language test for seafarers. Because it’s new, it is fitting that the level of brand awareness  by consumers is still very low. Based on data from customer visits in SEE Indonesia per year since its inception, only 768 people have visited SEE Indonesia, whether they only came or used the services of courses. This number is still very small compared to the total number of Indonesian seafarers, which are around 850,000. Therefore a marketing communication program is needed so that SEE Indonesia can increase brand awareness  and win the market from its competitors. In order to increase the brand awareness  of SEE Indonesia, then in this work the writer will use the Participatory Action Research method, where this method will involve people involved in existing problems to actively participate so that they are expected to get a solution right. The results of the Participatory Action Research will then become information material for the SOSTAC theory that will be used to create the SEE Indonesia marketing communication program.

scholarly journals Aligning Action Research and Restorative Justice: Highlighting Epistemological Tensions

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-29
Author(s):  
Brunilda Pali
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Restorative Justice ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Social Conflicts ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Action Research Project ◽  
Local Participation ◽  
Culture Of Silence ◽  
A Site

The epistemology of participatory action research sets a high agenda for pursuing and engendering change oriented towards social justice. This article is based on a participatory action research project, anchored both in the principles of restorative justice and action research. The project aimed at mobilizing local participation, knowledge and resources and creating restorative dialogue and encounters in handling social conflicts in intercultural settings in four different countries. Restorative justice and action research are highly compatible in terms of some of their core principles, but the project revealed important tensions that this article will reflect upon. Zooming into a town in Hungary – one of the four action research sites – the article addresses these tensions by focusing on two central themes. The first theme, encountering the silence and micropolitics, relates to the challenges created in the site, due to our encounter with its micropolitics and the existing ‘culture of silence’ about social conflicts. How should researchers enter a site, how far should they stir the depths of conflicts and disturb the silence and status quo in order to unearth injustices, multiply narratives, and stage different perspectives? The second theme, rethinking conflict participation, relates to the tension created between a more naïve idea of participation and a more antagonistic one. In restorative justice, it is often assumed that if everybody were included and participated in restorative processes, staging their different perspectives, then consensus could be reached. But considering the possibility that different views cannot be reconciled, and power relations cannot be suspended, we need to rethink the meaning of conflict participation in restorative praxis. 

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