scholarly journals Participatory action research: Addressing social vulnerability of rural women through income-generating activities

2009 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Liezel Van Niekerk ◽  
Dewald Van Niekerk
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Rural Women ◽  
Social Vulnerability ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Community Capacity Building ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
Income Generating Activities

Participatory action research (PAR) is a robust and versatile research and development strategy. It can be utilised to: understand complex community structures and interaction; determine various types of vulnerability; assist in community capacity building and skills transfer; ensure community participation,and allow for the strengthening of livelihoods. This article focuses on PAR as a strategy, applying various methods and specific participatory tools to understand social vulnerability, within the context of women as rural farm dwellers in the North-West Province, South Africa. It emphasises the need for continued participation and highlights the practical principles and benefits derived from PAR. The PAR process cycles are discussed and parallels are drawn with the practical setting. In conclusion, the article emphasises that the application of the PAR process can make a multi-dimensional contribution towards the development of a community by creating an understanding of social vulnerability, by building capacity and by ensuring participation, and also addresses income-generating activities.

Repoliticising Participatory/Action Research: From Action Research to Activism: some considerations on the 7th Action Research Network of Americas Conference

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (3-2020) ◽  
pp. 267-278
Author(s):  
de Castro Pitano Sandro ◽  
Rosa Elena Noal ◽  
Cheron Zanini Moretti
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Participatory Research ◽  
Research Network ◽  
Traditional Practices ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
The North ◽  
The Social

The seventh conference of the Action Research Network of the Americas (ARNA) took place in Montreal, Canada, from the 26th to 28th of June, in 2019. Having as title “Repoliticising Participatory/Action Research: From Action Research to Activism”, the event gathered people from different areas of practice coming mostly from the North American countries: Canada, United States and Mexico. The discussion presented here is based on notes made by the authors in the course of the conference, in which 40 words/keywords were identified, serving as a base to debate the validity of the principles of participatory research and action research in its repoliticisation and activism. Thus, we presented a systematisation of some key themes of the conference, among them, the commitment with the rupture: in relation to the traditional practices of research, the role and the social responsibility of the universities and the transforming character of participation, with emphasis in the effort for its repoliticisation and activism.

Using Participatory Action Research in a Community-Based Initiative Addressing Complex Mental Health Needs

2006 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 325-332 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen M. Knightbridge ◽  
Robert King ◽  
Timothy J. Rolfe
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Health Needs ◽  
Mental Health Needs ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Community Capacity Building ◽  
Complex Needs ◽  
Social Ecological

Objective: This paper describes the first phase of a larger project that utilizes participatory action research to examine complex mental health needs across an extensive group of stakeholders in the community. Method: Within an objective qualitative analysis of focus group discussions the social ecological model is utilized to explore how integrative activities can be informed, planned and implemented across multiple elements and levels of a system. Seventy-one primary care workers, managers, policy-makers, consumers and carers from across the southern metropolitan and Gippsland regions of Victoria, Australia took part in seven focus groups. All groups responded to an identical set of focusing questions. Results: Participants produced an explanatory model describing the service system, as it relates to people with complex needs, across the levels of social ecological analysis. Qualitative themes analysis identified four priority areas to be addressed in order to improve the system's capacity for working with complexity. These included: (i) system fragmentation; (ii) integrative case management practices; (iii) community attitudes; and (iv) money and resources. Conclusions: The emergent themes provide clues as to how complexity is constructed and interpreted across the system of involved agencies and interest groups. The implications these findings have for the development and evaluation of this community capacity-building project were examined from the perspective of constructing interventions that address both top-down and bottom-up processes.

Introduction: Mesoamerican/North American Partnerships for Community Wellbeing

2012 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-3 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Loucky ◽  
Alan LeBaron
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
North American ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Development Models ◽  
Life Chances ◽  
Community Wellbeing ◽  
The North

Margaret Mead was fond of saying that when speaking about another culture, it would be wise to imagine that someone from that culture was standing next to us. That advice is a good metaphor for what has in fact happened. Global technological and educational advances have brought both readers and writers into what used to be a closed purview of outside "experts." Today discourse across the north-south divide entails challenges to neocolonial approaches and assertions of rights—not only to basic resources and life chances, but also to describe as well as to determine roles, responsibilities, and eventual realities. Growing opportunities for collaboration are evident in a diverse array of cross-cultural partnerships, participatory action research, and community-based development models.

scholarly journals The Article Idea Chart: A participatory action research tool to aid involvement in dissemination

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheryl Forchuk ◽  
Amanda Meier
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Mental Health Research ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Community Capacity Building ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Key Stakeholders ◽  
Dissemination Process

Participatory-action research encourages the involvement of all key stakeholders in the research process and is especially well suited to mental health research. Previous literature outlines the importance of engaging stakeholders in the development of research questions and methodologies, but little has been written about ensuring the involvement of all stakeholders (especially non-academic members) in dissemination opportunities such as publication development. The Article Idea Chart was developed as a specific methodology for engaging all stakeholders in data analysis and publication development. It has been successfully utilised in a number of studies and is an effective tool for ensuring the dissemination process of participatory-action research results is both inclusive and transparent to all team members, regardless of stakeholder group.Keywords: participatory-action research, mental health, dissemination, community capacity building, publications, authorship

Reproduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 122-154
Author(s):  
Eileen Boris
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Labor Force Participation ◽  
Rural Women ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
General Belief ◽  
Program Staff ◽  
Alternative Vision ◽  
Poor Women ◽  
Data Program

This chapter analyzes the ILO’s Programme on Rural Women, which offered an alternative vision of development around the worth of subsistence and reproductive labor. Beginning in the late 1970s, its feminist staff moved beyond the findings of Ester Boserup on the gendered impact of development. They considered relations in the household, the centrality of women’s domestic and non-monetized work, and the significance of both for capitalist accumulation. Eschewing reliance on statistical data, program staff sought to decolonize knowledge by commissioning fieldwork and surveys by women researchers from the very places under investigation. The staff encouraged participatory action research that regarded rural women themselves as experts and empowered poor women collectively. The resulting studies, including ones by Lourdes Benería and Maria Mies, would define the field of women and development. But the program came into conflict with FEMMES, the ILO’s coordinating unit on women’s issues, over institutional domains, issue priorities, and the very meaning of equality. By the mid-1980s whether the conditions of the rural woman in the Global South would foreshadow wider precarity was unclear, but a general belief emerged that family labor created a barrier to full labor force participation.

scholarly journals “PELATIHAN MENGGAMBAR DENGAN MENGEKSPLORASI IMAGINASI DENGAN TEKNIK POP-UP” (RPTRA Dharma Suci- Jakarta)

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aprilia Kartini Streit ◽  
Yana Erlyana
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Community Service ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Basic Skill ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
The North ◽  
Service Activity ◽  
Imaginative Play ◽  
Imaginative Thinking

<p><em>For an educator, it is directed how to utilize this imagination to improve children's creativity in studying. Imaginative play naturally occurs in children, starting when children begin to think concretely until the child becomes an adult, but the habit of imaginative thinking is not maximized, needs to be taught and strengthened throughout his life.</em><em> One </em><em>of children's creativity is by drawing and using their imagination. Children need practice in imagining because they also need practice in applying every basic skill in their lives.</em><em> This research uses a collaborative and participatory action research method (PAR). In this community service activity, the target participants are children aged 6-8 years in the North Jakarta Dharma Suci RPTRA. The results of the training of these activities children tend to be enthusiastic in following the material given. Children tend to be interested in learning more about </em><em>making drawing, coloring and pop-ups. And it can be seen that children are able to imagine making simple stories with pictures and pop ups added.</em></p>

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