Changing the World without Doing Harm: Critical Pedagogy, Participatory Action Research and the Insider Student Researcher

2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 100-116
Author(s):  
Mark Chapman
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Critical Pedagogy ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
The World

'We got the power!' The political potential of street choirs

Soundings ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 73 (73) ◽  
pp. 129-143
Author(s):  
Campaign Choirs Writing Collective
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Research Programme ◽  
Emotional Engagement ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Struggle ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
The World ◽  
Oral History Interviews

Song has the power to express a social truth and is consistently employed in actions across the world in solidarity with political struggle. This article discusses the campaigning work of the Campaign Choirs Network, a UK network of radical political choirs, whose story is founded on diverse solidarities and a commitment to singing as a means of emotional engagement and pedagogy. The network has conducted a participatory action research programme, including oral history interviews with 42 members of 11 street choirs, exploring members' life-course activism and their utopian imaginaries. As one aspect of their research, the authors sought to more fully understand the emotions that song and singing release, and the connections that can then be made between people – in order to find out more about the nature of the power of song and the political possibilities of such connections. Drawing extensively on the interviews, this article discusses the political and pedagogic possibilities of the emotions released through singing.

scholarly journals Participatory Action Research Methodology in Disaster Research: Results From the World Trade Center Evacuation Study

2008 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 142-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robyn R.M. Gershon ◽  
Marcie S. Rubin ◽  
Kristine A. Qureshi ◽  
Allison N. Canton ◽  
Frederick J. Matzner
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Emergency Preparedness ◽  
World Trade ◽  
World Trade Center ◽  
Disaster Research ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
High Rise ◽  
The World ◽  
Trade Center

ABSTRACTObjective: Participatory action research (PAR) methodology is an effective tool in identifying and implementing risk-reduction interventions. It has been used extensively in occupational health research, but not, to our knowledge, in disaster research. A PAR framework was incorporated into the World Trade Center evacuation study, which was designed to identify the individual, organizational, and structural (environmental) factors that affected evacuation from the World Trade Center Towers 1 and 2 on September 11, 2001. PAR teams—comprising World Trade Center evacuees, study investigators, and expert consultants—worked collaboratively to develop a set of recommendations designed to facilitate evacuation from high-rise office buildings and reduce risk of injury among evacuees.Methods: Two PAR teams worked first separately and then collectively to identify data-driven strategies for improvement of high-rise building evacuation.Results: The teams identified interventions targeting individual, organizational, and structural (environmental) barriers to safe and rapid evacuation.Conclusions: PAR teams were effective in identifying numerous feasible and cost-effective strategies for improvement of high-rise emergency preparedness and evacuation. This approach may have utility in other workplace disaster prevention planning and response programs. (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2008;2:142–149)

scholarly journals PENDAMPINGAN MANAJEMEN WAKTU ANAK PADA MASA NORMAL BARU DI DUSUN DESEKAN KABUPATEN MAGELANG

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 291
Author(s):  
Fiki Fitriyah ◽  
Yeny Fitriyani ◽  
Milna Wafirah ◽  
Achmad Labib ◽  
Titis Rosowulan
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Time Management ◽  
Free Time ◽  
Daily Activities ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
School Students ◽  
New Normal ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The World

Tatanan Hidup Baru (New Normal) dimasa pandemi COVID-19 memberikan pengalaman yang benar-benar baru bagi dunia pendidikan khususnya siswa Sekolah Dasar (SD) di Indonesia. Kewajiban untuk taat protokoler kesehatan yang salah satu klausulnya adalah tidak berkerumun dan menjauhi krumunan menjadikan kegiatan belajar mengajar sangat tidak biasa. Tidak ada tatapmuka baik dengan guru ataupun teman, semua dilakukan secara daring (online). Hal tersebut membuat pelajar mempunyai waktu luang yang banyak dan cenderung tanpa pengawasan baik dari orang tua maupun guru. Tujuan pengabdian ini adalah untuk mengoptimalkan waktu luang siswa dengan manajemen waktu di masa normal baru. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini menggunakan metode Participatory Action Research (PAR). Tahapan penting dalam PAR adalah Research (pemetaan masalah), Action (rencana aksi dalam penyelesaian masalah) and Participatory (orang tua dan siswa SD di Desa Desekan). Teknik Pengumpulan data dilakukan dengan observasi, survei, dokumen dan wawancara. Pendampingan diharapakan dapat membantu siswa memahami pentingnya manajemen waktu dengan membuat jadwal kegiatan harian sehingga siswa dapat memanage waktunya dengan efektif dan efisien. Kesimpulan dari pengabdian ini adalah para siswa belum memahami dengan baik mengenai manajemen waktu dan banyak menghabiskan waktu dengan dawai dan bermain yang tidak berhubungan dengan pendidikan. Kata kunci: Tatanan Hidup Baru, COVID-19, Manajemen Waktu, PAR ABSTRACT The New Living Order (New Normal) during the COVID-19 pandemic provided a completely new experience for the world of education, especially elementary school students in Indonesia. The obligation to comply with the Health protocol makes learning without face-to-face either with teachers or friends and everything is done online. This makes students have a lot of free time and tends to be without supervision from either parents or teachers. The aim of this service is to optimize students' free time with time management in the new normal. The method used in this study uses the Participatory Action Research (PAR) method. The important stages in PAR are Research (mapping problems), Action (action plans in solving problems) and Participatory (participation of parents and elementary students in Desekan village). The technique of collecting data was carried out by observation, surveys, documents and interviews. It is hoped that mentoring can help students understand the importance of time management by scheduling daily activities so that students can manage their time effectively and efficiently. The conclusion of this dedication is that the students do not understand well about time management and spend a lot of time with strings and games that are not related to education. Keywords: New Normal, COVID-19, Time Management, PAR

Using Photovoice with NGO Workers in Sierra Leone

2011 ◽  
pp. 269-277
Author(s):  
Ashley Walker ◽  
Jody Oomen-Early
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Sierra Leone ◽  
Mortality Rates ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
The World ◽  
The Government

Sierra Leone currently has one of the highest child mortality rates in the world. Among those children who have the greatest chance of survival are those who have access to life’s basic needs. Because the government of Sierra Leone does not provide child welfare programming, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are often lifelines for millions of children. Few studies have explored the barriers facing these NGOs or have used participatory action research methods to do so. This case study serves agencies working to address barriers to individual and community health in war-torn and developing countries. This research also makes a case for using technology as a tool for community engagement and empowerment. This chapter will highlight the findings of a participatory action research study and describe how Photovoice can be used to build community capacity and mobilize communities, organizations, and governments to bring about social change.

scholarly journals Exploring the Impact of Critical Pedagogy: Do Preservice Teachers Develop Critical Consciousness when Taught by Critical Pedagogues?

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 74-100
Author(s):  
Barbara Pollard
Keyword(s):  
Preservice Teachers ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Critical Pedagogy ◽  
Preservice Teacher ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Critical Consciousness ◽  
University Education ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
The Impact

The study utilized participatory action research and grounded theory methods and methodology to explore how critical pedagogy, as practiced by a small group of university education professors, shapes and influences the development of a critical consciousness among preservice teachers. Although there were some ‘conscious raising’ learning experiences, which are highlighted in this paper, the majority of preservice teachers exited the program with limited levels of critical consciousness. This paper discusses some of the pedagogical practices that hindered and enhanced preservice teacher conscious raising as well as the exit data which conveyed three variant levels of critical consciousness.

scholarly journals The Critical Pedagogy of Mentoring: Undergraduate Researchers as Mentors in Youth Participatory Action Research

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-83
Author(s):  
Kimberly B. Pyne ◽  
Mary Alice Scott ◽  
Molly O’Brien ◽  
Andrew Stevenson ◽  
Muhammad Musah
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Critical Pedagogy ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Youth Participatory Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action

scholarly journals Digitalising the Age-Friendly City: Insights from Participatory Action Research

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (21) ◽  
pp. 8281
Author(s):  
Arlind Reuter ◽  
Jennifer Liddle ◽  
Thomas Scharf
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Civic Participation ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
World Health ◽  
Digital Citizenship ◽  
Digital Audio ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
The World

The World Health Organization’s age-friendly city initiative emerged as a response to the intersecting global trends of population ageing and urbanisation. However, a third global trend—digitalisation—has largely been overlooked in research and policy making relating to age-friendly cities and communities. Within the context of a general shift towards online civic participatory activities, this article explores older adults’ digital citizenship in an age-friendly city in the North of England. Drawing on interviews, observations and field notes from design workshops as part of an ongoing participatory action research project, we consider two key questions. First, how does an age-friendly city stakeholder organisation of older adults make use of digital technologies in order to provide digital information and communications? Second, what is the potential of digital audio to increase civic participation in later life and local engagement with age-friendly issues? Our analysis focuses on two domains of the World Health Organization’s age-friendly city framework: Communication and information and civic participation. First, we report on the stakeholder organisation’s efforts to re-design their digital newsletter in order to provide information and communications to older residents about local work on ageing projects. We then outline the organisation’s efforts, in a public setting, to engage with digital audio as a way to increase the participation of older residents with age-friendly topics. We conclude by suggesting the need to re-frame the role of digital technologies within the age-friendly city, broadening the scope from accessibility towards enhancing digital citizenship opportunities.

Chapter 8: Wobbling with Culturally Proactive Teaching: Facilitating Social Justice through Youth Participatory Action Research with Middle School Students

2021 ◽  
Vol 123 (13) ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Heather Coffey ◽  
Meghan Barnes
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Critical Pedagogy ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
English Language ◽  
Youth Participatory Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
School Students ◽  
Traditional Pedagogy

Background American students represent diverse life experiences, languages, cultures, and community memberships. Given the relatively unchanged demographics of U.S. teachers (primarily middle-class, white females), it is important that teachers engage in culturally proactive pedagogy and design curriculum that both reflects their students’ culture and engages them in developing skills to be participants in a larger society. Purpose This chapter explores how three veteran eighth-grade English language arts teachers in a large middle school in the southeastern United States navigated Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) as a culturally proactive and socially just pedagogy and encouraged students to examine power, privilege, and oppression in literature, in informational texts, and in their local communities to identify ways they might change inequities. Research Design Findings from this qualitative study suggest that even veteran teachers often struggle to implement social justice and culturally proactive pedagogies. Findings These teachers wobbled with their own uncertainty about the differences between a more traditional pedagogy, where they drive the learning, and a critical pedagogy that places the students in charge of the direction of their learning. Conclusion/Recommendations From the findings, recommendations are made to teachers who grapple with incorporating socially just and culturally proactive pedagogies into their teaching.

scholarly journals Standardised Data on Initiatives – STARDIT: Beta Version

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack S Nunn ◽  
Thomas Shafee
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
International Development ◽  
Online Discussions ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Essential Information ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Creative Commons ◽  
The World ◽  
Beta Version

BackgroundThere is currently no standardised way to share information about initiatives across disciplines such as health, environment, basic science, manufacturing and international development. As we face increasingly complex problems, such as global air and water pollution, the distinctions between disciplines can limit our ability to respond effectively. When data about initiatives are not reported in a standardised way, essential information is lost, along with opportunities for collaboration and comparison. ‘Citizen science’ and participatory action research are increasingly recognised as crucial methods to use to solve problems, as these methods can help ensure that initiatives are aligned with the priorities of those affected, thus redefining what it means to be a ‘researcher’. However, current reporting methods lack data about the ways in which different people are involved in initiatives, making it difficult to collate and appraise data about the most effective ways to involve different people. The Standardised Data on Initiatives (STARDIT) reporting system provides a way to share this data. Standardised data can inform effective ways to share power during the design, implementation and evaluation stage of initiatives. For example, when designing a response to an epidemic, standardised data can inform which affected individuals or organisations could be involved in the design of the response and which outcomes are most important.ObjectiveSTARDIT will enable many kinds of data to be reported in a standardised way across disciplines, helping people appraise initiatives and synthesise evidence for the most effective ways to involve people. MethodSTARDIT has been co-created in a collaborative way, informed by a number of reviews and guidelines. STARDIT development is informed by the participatory action research paradigm, and is being co-designed by people from multiple disciplines and organisations around the world, using a combination of face to face events, online events and online discussion and decision tools. STARDIT data is hosted using Wikidata which works across multiple languages and is both human and machine readable.Results Since its inception in July 2019, over 100 people from multiple disciplines have been involved in the STARDIT co-design process, including through participation in multiple online discussions and three face-to-face events. People from across the world accepted the public invitation to be a part of shaping development of the system by giving feedback on multiple versions, including people from Cochrane, John Hopkins University and the Health Research Authority UK. Four Alpha Version STARDIT reports have been published for a number of research projects. A working demonstration of the Beta Version was publicly released in February 2021 (ScienceforAll.World/STARDIT). It is hosted by Wikimedia Foundation servers under a Creative Commons licence.

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