scholarly journals Transformative potential of participatory research: Deconstructing power relations between a child and an adult

2016 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-246
Author(s):  
Jelena Vranjesevic
Keyword(s):  
Participatory Research ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Social Community ◽  
Transformative Potential ◽  
Research With Children ◽  
The Status ◽  
Adults And Children ◽  
New Policies

Transformative potential of participatory research with children as participants is reflected in promoting the image of the child as an active actor in the social community, an equal partner whose voice is heard and appreciated, as well as in a critical reconsideration of an adult-centred perspective in research, based on hierarchical power relations between children and adults. The paper critically discusses the theoretical and methodological grounds which serve as the basis for the adult-centred perspective and analyses the factors that have significantly contributed to the change in research paradigm when it comes to the status of children in research: critical re-examination of methodology and objectives of certain social sciences, the movements calling for the emancipation of marginalised social groups and new policies in the field of protecting children?s rights. Transformative potential of participatory research is discussed both from the perspective of the role and position of adults in research process (adults? responsibility: personal and epistemological reflexivity) and the relationship between adults and children in research (the change of attitudes towards children and redefining the traditional roles of adults and children: the cooperative vs. hierarchical model of power), as well as in relation to: the change in the position of research participants (children), visibility of their perspective in public discourse and the development of competences and values important for living in a democratic society.

scholarly journals The Female and Male World in Croatian Proverbs

2021 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 351-363
Author(s):  
Goranka Blagus Bartolec ◽  
Ivana Matas Ivanković
Keyword(s):  
Public Discourse ◽  
Semantic Features ◽  
Social Community ◽  
Female Relationships ◽  
Literary Forms ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status ◽  
Human And Nature ◽  
Physical Features

Proverbs as concise textual structures are primarily defined as oral (folk) literary forms in which universal thoughts are expressed on the basis of individual experiences understandable to speakers of the language, i.e., of the social community in which they originated. In relation to, for example, idioms, the use of proverbs in today’s public discourse is much rarer, and proverbs in Croatian are most often recorded in printed form, while online edited lexicographic sources of proverbs are rare. Folk customs, human character and physical features, social and religious values, the relation of human and nature are the most common motives in proverbs. Male-female relationships are also the subject of numerous proverbs. Given the past times when they were created, they can be considered the source of a stereotypical image of the status of women and men in society that exists in human consciousness. Based on proverbs with the component woman, grandmother, mother, daughter, sister, girlfriend, widow, father, son, husband…, this paper will analyze proverbs with the topic of male-female relations, e.g. Ljubav daj ženi, ali tajnu odaj samo majci i sestri. (Give your love to your wife, but reveal the secret only to your mother and sister.), or proverbs referring to an individual feature attributed to a man or a woman, e.g., Kakvo drvo, takav klin, kakav otac takav sin. (Like tree, like wedge; like father, like son.)., Ženi sina kad hoćeš, a kćer kad možeš. (Marry a son when you want and a daughter when you can.). The analysis includes the following: 1. representation of proverbs in other lexicographic (printed and online sources), 2. representation of such proverbs in contemporary public discourse, 3. structural and semantic features of proverbs motivated by male-female relationships. In conclusion, the role of proverbs on the topic of male and female in the contemporary context is discussed – what is their perspective and whether the corpus has replaced traditional recorders and word of mouth today.

scholarly journals MELIBATKAN ANAK DALAM PENELITIAN ANAK: PROSES, PELUANG DAN TANTANGAN

Sosio Informa ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yanuar Farida Wismayanti
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Participatory Research ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
Participatory Approaches ◽  
Research With Children ◽  
Need Support ◽  
The Right ◽  
Participation Research

Participationis not just symbolic . In some cases, the children are still used as a tool or even not at all involved in a study, both in the preparation and execution of the research process . This allows the children involved in the institutional and cultural context. The involvement of children is very important to know their views or perspectives of the problem and the expected demand . One method to understand the level of participation, using the approach of Roger Hart's ladder of participation. Involving children is an opportunity and a challenge the right of participation the children . The benefit is improving the mainstreaming the children’s right programs, activities and policies. Participatory approaches in research, encourage children to be actively, not only as a decorative or maniputif. Encouraging the child inisitaif to participatory research . This context, it should also ethical principles in research with children, including the principle of consent to engage, appreciate the views of the child, as well as confidentiality of information, and the child initiative. To involvement of children in research, need to give children the opportunity to engage in the research process from the planning, implementation and publication . And the important in the participation of children, need support of the community and institutions of higher education to facilitate the process of participatory child research.Keywords: child participation, research with children, child mainstreaming.Partisipasi bukan hanya sekedar simbolik. Dalam beberapa hal, anak-anak masih dijadikan sebagai alat atau bahkan sama sekali tidak dilibatkan dalam sebuah penelitian, baik dalam persiapan maupun pelaksanaan proses penelitian. Hal ini memungkinkan anak-anak terlibat dalam konteks institusional maupun kultural. Keterlibatan anak-anak menjadi sangat penting untuk mengetahui pandangan atau persepektif mereka atas masalah dan kebutuhan yang diharapkan. Salah satu metode untuk memahami tingkatan partisipasi, menggunakan pendekatan tangga partisipasi Roger Hart. Melibatkan anak-anak dalam penelitian, merupakan sebuah peluang dan tantangan untuk memberikan ruang bagi anak-anak dan memberikan hak partisipasinya. Manfaatnya diharapkan akan bisa mempengaruhi berbagai program, aktivitas dan kebijakan yang lebih mengarusutamakan hak anak. Pendekatan partisipatori dalam penelitian, mendorong anak-anak terlibat secara aktif, tidak hanya sebagai dekoratif atau maniputif saja. Keterlibatan anak secara aktif, mendorong inisitaif anak sangat diperlukan dalam mendorong penelitian yang partisipatif. Konteks ini, juga harus mempertimbagkan prinsip etik dalam penelitian bersama anak, termasuk prinsip persetujuan untuk terlibat, menghargai pendapat anak, serta kerahasiaan informasi, dan mendorong inisiatif anak. Untuk mendorong pelibatan anak dalam penelitian, perlu memberikan kesempatan pada anak untuk terlibat dalam proses penelitian dari tahap awal perencanaan, maupun implementasi dan publikasinya. Termasuk mendorong terbentuknya ruang partisipasi bagi anak, dengan dukungan masyarakat dan lembaga pendidikan tinggi untuk memfasilitasi proses penelitian anak yang partisipatif.Kata Kunci: partisipasi anak, penelitian bersama anak, pengarusutamaan hak anak

Reflexivity and ethical mindfulness in participatory research with children: What does it really look like?

Childhood ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 400-415 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonia Canosa ◽  
Anne Graham ◽  
Erica Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Participatory Research ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Ethical Responsibility ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Tourist Destination ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Relational Approach ◽  
Research With Children

This article draws attention to the ethical nuances of conducting participatory research with children and young people growing up in a popular tourist destination in Australia. It responds to calls for more reflexively oriented approaches to documenting the ethical dimensions of qualitative research, particularly with children. Prolonged engagement in the field facilitated a deeper understanding of young people’s lived experiences and the challenges they face in negotiating identity, belonging and connection with community. Findings reveal there are a number of important benefits when actively involving young people in research. With the democratisation of the research process, however, comes an increased ethical responsibility which requires a reflexive and relational approach if meaningful and inclusive participation is to be achieved.

scholarly journals Thinking with autoethnography in collaborative research: A critical, reflexive approach to relational ethics

2021 ◽  
pp. 146879412110334
Author(s):  
Louise Phillips ◽  
Maria Bee Christensen-Strynø ◽  
Lisbeth Frølunde
Keyword(s):  
Participatory Research ◽  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Relational Ethics ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Transformative Research ◽  
Main Method ◽  
Reflexive Analysis ◽  
Preliminary Phase

In this article, we propose a distinctive critical, reflexive approach to relational ethics in ‘collaborative, democratic and transformative’ research. Underpinning the approach is the view that the buzzwords of ‘collaboration’ and ‘co-creation/co-production’ may signify equitable, symmetrical power relations and, as a result, romanticise collaborative research as straightforward processes of inclusion. The approach integrates critical, reflexive analysis of the play of power in the ‘with’ in ‘research with, not on, people’ and the ‘co’ in ‘co-creating knowledge’ into the ongoing collaborative research process. As a main method for critical, reflexive analysis, the approach uses ‘thinking with’ autoethnography. In the article, we illustrate the approach by showing how we ‘think with’ autoethnographic texts to respond to discomfort and analyse the tensions in the co-constitution of knowledge and subjectivities in the preliminary phase of a collaborative, participatory research project on dance for people with Parkinson’s disease and their spouses.

scholarly journals From a Sociological Given Context to Changing Practice: Transforming Problematic Power Relations in Educational Organizations to Overcome Social Inequalities

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yannick Lémonie ◽  
Vincent Grosstephan ◽  
Jean-Luc Tomás
Keyword(s):  
Activity Theory ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Educational Inequality ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Fourth Generation ◽  
Educational Success ◽  
Changing Practice ◽  
The Status ◽  
Institutional Network

In 2012, the international PISA survey reinforced the observation that the French educational system is one of the most unequal among OECD countries. The observation of serious inequalities in access to educational success for pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds could lead to a pessimistic vision suggesting that any possibility of transformation of the system is doomed to failure. Thus, the fight against inequalities in access to educational success is a form of runaway object which constitutes a challenge for research which treats the social context as evolving and susceptible to significant and novel transformations. Developmental work research aims to support the work of professionals in the re-elaboration of their practices by seeking to go beyond the status quo of an unequal school. Drawing on this framework within an institutional network of schools, we seek to show how the intervention has highlighted power issues inscribed in the structures and how the actors, through their commitment in the research collaborative process, seek to go beyond the power issues inscribed in their work routines and enacted during the research process by different kinds of antagonism. We will argue that the fight against educational inequality involves overcoming systemic power relations crystallized in institution. This systemic power is expressed by a form of episodic power. Our results show restrictive and constructive effect on the expansive learning process and on the construction of a collective in the formative interventions. The restrictive side of epistemic power should be linked to systemic power which is historically inherited. We discuss the results in the light of the emergence of a fourth generation of activity theory. Our research makes it possible to make conceptual and methodological progress in the construction of a fourth generation of activity theory by showing the need for analysis and expansively learn about problematic power relations in heterogeneous collectives.

scholarly journals A Review of Approaches, Strategies and Ethical Considerations in Participatory Research With Children

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 160940692098796
Author(s):  
Marjorie Montreuil ◽  
Aline Bogossian ◽  
Emilie Laberge-Perrault ◽  
Eric Racine
Keyword(s):  
Participatory Research ◽  
Realist Review ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Discussion Groups ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Research Subjects ◽  
Ethical Considerations ◽  
Research With Children ◽  
Children’S Voices ◽  
Pragmatic Ethics

Participatory research can change the view of children from research subjects to active partners. As active partners, children can be recognized as agents who can contribute to different steps of the research process. However, “participatory research” is an umbrella term that covers both the collection of data with children and children’s participation in making decisions related to the research process. As such, it raises particular challenges for researchers. Based on a pragmatic ethics approach, we were inspired by the realist review methodology to synthesize the current literature, identify different strategies used to engage children aged 12 and below in participatory research, and analyze how they affect children’s active participation and the ethical aspects related to each. Fifty-seven articles were retained for inclusion in the review. A variety of strategies were used to involve children in the research process, including discussion groups, training/capacity-building sessions, photography and filming, children as data collectors and questionnaires. The most prevalent ethical considerations identified were related to power dynamics and strategies to facilitate children’s expression and foster the authenticity of children’s voices. Researchers should address these ethical considerations to actively involve children within the research process and prevent tokenistic participation. Active inclusion of children in research could include co-identifying with them how they want to be involved in knowledge production (if they want to) from the beginning of a project.

Psychological Research Literature Review Canvas

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Quang Ngoc Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Chaotic Process ◽  
Psychological Construct ◽  
The Status ◽  
Guiding Questions

Without a guideline or structure, conducting a literature review on a psychological construct might become a chaotic process . This canvas was built based on the author's experience in order to help psychological researchers classify, organize, and summarize the information relating to the psychological construct of interest into several essential aspects including definition, classification, measurement, sample, predictors and outcomes, mediators and moderators, interventions, and theories. For each aspect, there are some guiding questions which are expected to help researcher decice which information should be focused while examining scientific documents. The completely filled canvas should depict the status quo of the research on the psychological construct of interest, facilitating the research process.

Traditions and Transformations

2021 ◽  
pp. 43-59
Author(s):  
Regina Marler
Keyword(s):  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Female Role ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Florence Nightingale ◽  
The Status ◽  
Childhood Home ◽  
Octavia Hill

Modernist, feminist, experimental: the terms we now most associate with Virginia Woolf all presuppose a break with conventions and a rejection of the status quo in art and power relations. Yet all her life, Virginia Woolf kept returning in memory to her childhood home, to the crowded Victorian family in which she was raised, where boys went to the best schools that Sir Leslie Stephen could afford, and girls, however clever or gifted, were shaped for charitable work, for motherhood, for marriage to prominent men. This obsessive turning back is a kind of pained nostalgia: a lament, a grievance, a comfort—and the engine of even her most avant-garde work. This chapter explores the traditions and assumptions of that potent childhood world, in part through the prism of three conservative female role models her mother, Julia Stephen, chose for her daughters: Mrs. Humphry Ward, Octavia Hill, and Florence Nightingale.

Team Managers in Local Social Service Departments in Israel as Bottom-Up Social Policy-Makers

2021 ◽  
pp. 324-345
Keyword(s):  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Psychosocial Services ◽  
Service Departments ◽  
New Policies

Following on Felice Perlmutter's work on the managerial role of social workers in social services, this article contributes to the still limited knowledge on the role of social workers in middle-management positions in formulating new policies `on the ground`. The study expands knowledge about policies determined by team managers in local social service departments in Israel. It occurs in the nexus between street-level bureaucracy, professionalism and managerial positions. Semi-structured interviews with 28 team managers revealed that they formulated `new` policies with regard to the provision of psychosocial services and material assistance (who gets what, when and how). This occurs when they resist official policy, when it is vague or non-existent. Most of their policy decisions are not documented and draw upon consultations with colleagues and superiors though not with clients. The team managers perceive these policies as a means for achieving balance between clients' well-being and budgetary constraints. Yet their decisions lack transparency, are decided upon without public discourse and may lead to greater inequity between clients

scholarly journals Preventing cardiovascular disease: Participant perspectives of the FAITH! Program

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (12) ◽  
pp. 1710-1723 ◽  
Author(s):  
LaPrincess C Brewer ◽  
Eleshia J Morrison ◽  
Joyce E Balls-Berry ◽  
Patrick Dean ◽  
Kandace Lackore ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cardiovascular Disease ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Participatory Research ◽  
Disease Risk ◽  
Cardiovascular Disease Risk ◽  
Community Based Participatory Research ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Community Based Interventions ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Behavior Change Interventions

Striking cardiovascular health disparities exist among African-Americans in Minnesota compared to Whites; however, community-based interventions to address cardiovascular disease risk are lacking. This study explored participant perceptions of a culturally tailored, cardiovascular disease prevention program developed using a community-based participatory research process. Research participation perceptions, program benefits, and program satisfaction/acceptability were analyzed using a mixed-methods approach. Overall, acceptability was high. Findings highlight the favorable inclusion of African-Americans (research perception), knowledge gained about healthy lifestyle practices (benefits), and quality of the curriculum/speakers (satisfaction). Community-based participatory research may be useful in fostering the acceptability of behavior change interventions among marginalized African-American communities.

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