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.

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.

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.

Power, Truth and Justice in Youth Participatory Action Research: Ethical Questions

2004 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 61-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivor Pritchard
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Youth Participatory Action Research ◽  
Ethical Challenges ◽  
Research Subjects ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Action Research Project ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Right

What difference does it make, ethically speaking, to be part of an action research project involving youth? How are participants supposed to act towards one another? How are they supposed to act toward others- research subjects, peers, adults in positions of authority, community members- who they encounter in the course of their projects? Youth Participatory Action Research (Youth PAR), as reflected in this volume's various projects, raises ethical issues that deserve its supporters' attention. Action researchers who are serious about both achieving their objectives and doing the right thing in the process are bound to come across certain kinds of ethical challenges in their activity. This essay will try to illuminate some common and troubling challenges.

scholarly journals Using Participatory Action Research to Teach Community Practice in a Post-Truth Era

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
pp. 27-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Candace Christensen ◽  
Inci Yilmazli Trout ◽  
Beatrix Perez
Keyword(s):  
Full Article ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Social Work Students ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Community Practice ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Master Of Social Work ◽  
Msw Students ◽  
Article Abstract

[full article, abstract in English; abstract in Lithuanian] This project focuses on the learning experiences of master of social work students in an advanced community practice course. The primary pedagogical method for the class was participatory action research, specifically the photovoice method. The MSW students completed a photovoice project focused on campus sexual violence in which they recruited students, outside the class, as participants. As coursework, students generated reflection papers, responses to readings, and focus group notes. These artifacts constituted the data for this project. The data analysis included grounded theory methods and a focus on post-truth politics, from which three categories emerged: (a) supporting cultural competence, (b) facilitating self-awareness (c) and viewing truth as multifaceted.

scholarly journals Case Report: Are You One of Us and Can We Trust You?: Taking a Communication Perspective in Participatory Research

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beth Fisher-Yoshida
Keyword(s):  
Case Report ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Coordinated Management Of Meaning ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Contextual Influences ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Participatory Processes

This article focuses on the necessity to build relationships with people across cultures, while doing participatory action research (PAR). There are many assumptions attached to the term “participation” and it is not only worth exploring how these assumptions are formed and how they manifest during participatory action research projects, but is necessary to build trusting relationships. Taking a communication perspective through the lens of Coordinated Management of Meaning (CMM), provides the framework to see which voices are heard and privileged, and how researchers with more formal experience blend in partnership with those possessing local knowledge and practices. These many influences shape the dynamics of the relationships, create the episodes of which these experiences are a part, and impact the efficacy of the work. These layers of complexity need to be considered and addressed. CMM Models and concepts aid us in becoming aware of the moral or “logical” forces that are attached to the contexts we prioritize and was applicable to the case study we did in Medellín, Colombia, which was key to developing self-awareness. These contextual influences are culturally bound and in order to have equitable participatory processes across cultures, becoming more aware of the origin of these tendencies is critical. In addition, the more self-aware all the researchers become, the more it leads to developing better partnerships in these PAR processes.

Looking through the magnifying glass: A duoethnographic approach to understanding the value and process of participatory action research with LGBTQ youth

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Alex Wagaman ◽  
Ira Sanchez
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Research Team ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Shared Experience

Participatory action research is a method intended to shift the power of the “researcher” and “researched.” This paper presents the results of a duoethnographic exploration and analysis of experiences working on a participatory action research team. The authors participated in a research team, made up primarily of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer -identified young adults, which studied intra-community bigotry. Duoethnography is a qualitative method that reflects on a shared experience or cultural event from two different viewpoints in order to juxtapose perspectives without attempting to resolve differences or converge into conclusions. Through duoethnography, the authors identified three praxes that offer guidance for qualitative social work researchers. The praxes include negotiating power, engaging in iterative learning and knowledge production, and sharing the burden of vulnerability. These praxes create an opportunity for qualitative researchers to consider the value of participatory action research as a reflective research process that aligns with social work principles of self-awareness and social justice, and to identify participatory and reflexive strategies that can be incorporated into a variety of qualitative methods.

scholarly journals Transformasi Transportasi Tradisional (Offline) ke Transportasi Online Sebagai Solusi Bagi Pengguna di Kota Pontianak

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 194
Author(s):  
Bustami Bustami ◽  
Rio Laksamana
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Fast Response ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Good Service ◽  
Transportation Services ◽  
The People ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City

This study aims to analyze the transforming offline transportation to Online Transportation, seen from the perception of users in the city of Pontianak. This study describes the perceptions of users of transportation services in the city of Pontianak with the Participatory Action Research (PAR) approach. This research concludes that online transportation is the right solution for the community (users) in the city of Pontianak. The community as a user is of the opinion that online transportation which is present in the midst of the bustle of the community with all its advantages (advantages), is the right solution to replace the use of traditional / offline modes of transportation which are felt to be diminished. The advantages of online transportation such as lower prices, easy to use, flexible, time efficient, various services, fast response and good service. In other words, the existence of online transportation has an important role in meeting the daily needs of users of transportation services for the people in Pontianak.

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