Participatory Action Research in Adult Education

2021 ◽  
pp. 180-199
Author(s):  
Meagan Call-Cummings ◽  
Melissa Hauber-Özer
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Adult Education ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Participatory Inquiry ◽  
Positive Social Change ◽  
Learner Needs

Participatory action research (PAR) is an embodied form of inquiry that engages those most affected by an issue or problem in creating knowledge and developing solutions. PAR epistemology intersects with a critical approach to adult education in its belief that programs, methods, and content must be relevant to learner needs and challenges and ought to lead to greater social justice. The purpose of this chapter is to offer a review of three critical, participatory inquiry methods that are connected to the ontological and epistemological anchors of PAR. The authors present readers with a useful description of how to enact these onto-epistemological anchors through these methods in diverse contexts. They conclude that these methods have great potential for critical educators to live out their own onto-epistemological commitments, better understand and meet learner needs, and facilitate positive social change.

Participatory Action Research as/in Adult Education

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 21-33
Author(s):  
Meagan Call-Cummings ◽  
Melissa Hauber-Özer
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Adult Education ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Participatory Inquiry ◽  
Learner Needs

Participatory action research (PAR) is an embodied form of inquiry that engages those most affected by an issue or problem in creating knowledge and developing solutions. PAR epistemology intersects with the critical approach to adult education, particularly the belief that programs, methods, and content must be relevant to learner needs and challenges and ought to lead to greater social justice. The purpose of this paper is to offer a review of three critical, participatory inquiry methods that are anchored in three concepts foundational to PAR and to present readers with a useful description of how to implement these methods in diverse contexts.

scholarly journals Exploring Youth Participatory Action Research in Urban Schools: Advancing Social Justice and Equity-Based Counseling Practices

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-43
Author(s):  
Amy L. Cook ◽  
Ian Levy ◽  
Anna Whitehouse
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Identity Development ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
School Counselor ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Youth Participatory Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Counseling Practice

Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) is emerging as a group counseling practice that focuses on topics that are of personal interest to youth and aims to promote social change. Although YPAR has been found to facilitate critical consciousness, assist with youth self-identity development, and promote social change, few researchers have examined its application in counseling. The present study explored six school counselor trainees’ perceptions of YPAR as a therapeutic intervention and its impact on counseling skill development and how it relates to multicultural and social justice counseling competencies. The themes that resulted from the Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis for YPAR as a counseling practice were: (1) fun, interactive, youth-centered approach, not like counseling or therapy, (2) implementation of challenges requiring planning, time, and commitment, (3) collaborative supports to step out of comfort zone, overcome initial hesitancy, and welcome new learning experience, (4) development of counseling skills and confidence as a counselor, and (5) understanding differences and increasing self-awareness and advocacy skills. Discussion and implications for school counseling practice are provided.

scholarly journals Participatory Action Research and Aboriginal Epistemology

1969 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Raven Sinclair
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Web Site ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Aboriginal Issues ◽  
The Web

To our readers: I close my editorial responsibilities with Teaching and Learning by implementing an editor’s prerogative to include in this issue selected passages from an article by Raven Sinclair. As an advocate for social justice within indigenous communities Raven continues to make strides within transformational challenge opportunities by implementing participatory action research in settings that require intervention and social change. I was introduced to this article by a friend of his at a conference I attended on aboriginal issues in education. The message contained therein has influenced my work as a teacher, counsellor, professor, researcher and storyteller. Unfortunately space does not permit a full reprint of Ravens article. I have tried to carefully select passages that do justice to the intent and message without disrupting the flow. In my life as a storyteller I borrow to share not claim to own. For the complete article and list of references refer to the web site described at the end.

scholarly journals Church Involvement in Education for Sustainability: Using Participatory Action Research to Design a Faith-Based Education for Sustainability Programme in a Christian Community, New Zealand

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Xiaoming Gong
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Participatory Design ◽  
Education For Sustainability ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Christian Community ◽  
Faith Based

<p>This study develops and analyses a faith-based education for sustainability (EFS) programme as a means of addressing the issue of climate change in an urban Christian community â St Johnâ s in the City, Presbyterian Church, Wellington, New Zealand. It also, explores a participatory design and practice process for an adult-focused community EFS programme within a Christian context. The outcome of the study may serve as a model of adult-focused community of EFS which can be used by other faith-based communities in New Zealand. The critical approach, which is considered as an important approach to EFS, aims to achieve social change by fostering critical thinking in relation to sustainable issues. However, the so-called rhetoric-reality gap of critical approach causes difficulty for practicing the approach. As such, it was hoped that this study, informed by Freirian critical pedagogy, bridges the â rhetoric-realityâ gap of the critical approach in EFS practice. The methodology of this research â participatory action research (PAR) â aims to empower participants by involving them as co-researchers in the research process. Combined with group discussion and in-depth individual interview, participatory method â diagramming was used as the main research method. The PAR methodology was proved effective for the faith-based EFS programme design and it was also represented a democratic EFS process in itself. Therefore, it informed the subsequent practice of the St Johnâ s programme that was designed by this research as an action research (AR) project and also functioned as a dialogical education programme. In the St Johnâ s programme, the participants as discursive subjects would gain freedom to critically enquire their relationships with Godâ s world and with each other and would be facilitated to take realistic actions on sustainable issues associated with climate change through the critical enquiry.</p>

Critical Participatory Action Research: A Feminist Project for Validity and Solidarity

2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 433-444 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle Fine ◽  
María Elena Torre
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Feminist Research ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Research Praxis ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Critical Participatory Action Research ◽  
Trans Youth

We present critical participatory action research as an enactment of feminist research praxis in psychology. We discuss the key elements of critical participatory action research through the story of a single, national participatory project. The project was designed by and for LGBTQIA+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, intersex, asexual, plus) and gender-expansive youth; it was called What’s Your Issue? We provide details of the research project, the dreams, desires, experiences, and structural precarity of queer and trans youth. We write this article hoping readers will appreciate the complexities of identities, attend to the relentless commitment to recognition and solidarities, learn the ethical and epistemological principles of critical participatory action research as a feminist and intersectional praxis, and appreciate the provocative blend of research and action toward social justice. Online slides for instructors who want to use this article for teaching are available on PWQ's website at http://journals.sagepub.com/page/pwq/suppl/index

scholarly journals Islamic Economic Orientation Model for Microfinance Institution

2019 ◽  
pp. 676-682
Author(s):  
Ahmad Wira ◽  
Hulwati Hulwati ◽  
Huriyatul Akmal ◽  
Riandy Mardhika Adif ◽  
Jufriadif Na`am
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Microfinance Institutions ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Orientation Model ◽  
Microfinance Institution ◽  
Approach Method ◽  
Islamic Economic

This study formulated a model of Islamic economic orientation towards microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Solok Indonesia. The approach method used is Participatory Action Research (PAR) on Islamic economics in social change. This study produces three models of Islamic economic orientation, namely social, profit and social-profit. Thus, this research helps the community in implementing a more reliable Islamic economy.

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