Participatory Action-Research, Inclusiveness, and Empowering Community Action at the Western Institute for Social Research

Since 2001 a team of academic researchers and medical practitioners have been collaborating with Yarrabah Men?s Health Group leaders to implement a participatory action research (PAR) process designed to support the men to (in their own words) ?take their rightful place? in contemporary Australian society. The formative stages of the PAR process and progress over the first 12 months have been documented in previous papers in order to provide much needed direction for others interested in undertaking similar community action-oriented research (Tsey, Patterson, Whiteside, Baird, & Baird, 2002; Tsey et al., 2004). The present paper addresses the need for innovative evaluation methodologies to enable participants in the PAR process to monitor and reinforce the small improvement they are making towards achieving their goals, and to maintain their vision for the future. Participation in men?s group activities resulted in modest but significant change in the men?s personal development and growth and in their response to family responsibilities. Men had the opportunity to dialogue and reflect on their gender responsibilities such as housework, which constitutes a major source of conflict in the family. Several men also gained the confidence and motivation to stand for local government. The study highlights the value of demystifying and making research more relevant to people?s day-to-day living experiences.

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Menuju Kampung Bersinar dengan Pelatihan Kreasi Tanaman Hias bagi Ibu-Ibu PKK di Kelurahan Gadang Kota Malang

Journal of Research on Community Engagement ◽

10.18860/jrce.v1i2.7847 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

pp. 38

Author(s):

Ernaning Setiyowati ◽

Nunik Junara ◽

Prima Kurniawaty

Keyword(s):

Action Research ◽

Participatory Action Research ◽

Community Service ◽

Ornamental Plants ◽

Community Action ◽

Ornamental Plant ◽

Participatory Action ◽

The Public ◽

New Knowledge

Malang City has an annual program of activities for villages namely Kampung Bersinar (Clean, Healthy, Beautiful, Beautiful and Neat). One of the areas that have greening problems is RW 04, Gadang, Malang City on the banks of the Brantas river. Lack of greening in this area causes this area to be prone to landslides because the area is very contoured. That's why the focus of community service is to educate the public in the field of greening to improve the quality of the environment in the area. The method used is Participatory Action Research (PAR) which involves community action in its activities. The activity carried out was to train the creation of ornamental plants in the form of spheres growing to PKK women in RW 04, Gadang, Malang. The results of this activity are PKK mothers who have new knowledge by making ornamental plant creations that can be applied in the area so that it will improve the quality of the green environment in the area..

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Strengthening Pacific voices through Talanoa participatory action research

AlterNative An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples ◽

10.1177/1177180121996321 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 117718012199632

Author(s):

Radilaite Cammock ◽

Cath Conn ◽

Shoba Nayar

Keyword(s):

Action Research ◽

Research And Development ◽

Participatory Action Research ◽

Ethnic Diversity ◽

Food Systems ◽

Social Research ◽

Belief Systems ◽

Cultural Knowledge ◽

Participatory Action ◽

Young Entrepreneurs

Approaches to health and social research and development in the Pacific are dominated by Eurocentric frameworks that fail to reflect the region’s ethnic diversity and inherent cultural knowledge and belief systems. We aimed to advance innovative, indigenous methodology with a focus on youth voice and transformative approaches that contribute to a decolonising and sustainable model of development. Talanoa—a Pacific framework for communicating and connecting—and participatory action research were adapted to create a unique Pacific “action cycle” focused on providing opportunities to (a) hear from fruit and vegetable young entrepreneurs and (b) foster healthy and sustainable food systems among young entrepreneurs in Suva, Fiji. A Fijian worldview helped to centralise Fijian concepts of knowledge enquiry and research. This article describes the way in which Pacific Talanoa can be incorporated within a Fijian epistemological paradigm for research and development undertaken in the Fijian context.

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Sekolah Balita sebagai Upaya Pendampingan Pengentasan Gizi Buruk pada Balita di Kelurahan Bulak Banteng Surabaya

Amalee: Indonesian Journal of Community Research and Engagement ◽

10.37680/amalee.v1i2.330 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

pp. 113-123

Author(s):

Anif Muchlashin ◽

Teguh Ansori

Keyword(s):

Action Research ◽

Participatory Action Research ◽

Parenting Practices ◽

Research Method ◽

Social Research ◽

Study Groups ◽

Participatory Action ◽

Child Feeding ◽

Participation Research ◽

Keywords Malnutrition

The purpose of this study is to improve the nutritional status of toddlers whose status is still at the threshold below the red line (BGM - Bawah Garis Merah) and malnutrition that mostly caused by parenting practices that do not meet health standards. Child feeding, food menu presentation, and environmental hygiene were among several factors that cause the occurrence of BGM and malnutrition in toddlers in Bulak Banteng village of Kenjeran District, Surabaya City. In this program, the researchers used the Participatory Action Research (PAR) social research method that consists of three interconnected words (participation, research and action). In the process, researchers come with nutritionists, Posyandu cadres, and toddlers’ mothers who are affected by malnutrition. The first program creates study groups to make it easier to organize and research together, called Toddler School "Anak Aktif Ceria". The results obtained indicate that there is an increase in knowledge of toddlers’ mothers and as expectedly an increase in body weight as concrete evidence that parents are implementing the knowledge gained through the toddler school. Keywords: malnutrition, parenting, toddlers’ mother, toddlers’ nutrition, toddler school Abstrak Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk meningkatkan status gizi balita yang statusnya masih di ambang batas di bawah garis merah (BGM - Bawah Garis Merah) dan gizi buruk yang sebagian besar disebabkan oleh praktik pengasuhan yang tidak memenuhi standar kesehatan. Pemberian makanan anak, penyajian menu makanan, dan kebersihan lingkungan adalah beberapa faktor yang menyebabkan terjadinya BGM dan gizi buruk pada balita di desa Bulak Banteng, Kecamatan Kenjeran, Kota Surabaya. Dalam program ini, para peneliti menggunakan metode penelitian sosial Participatory Action Research (PAR) yang terdiri dari tiga kata yang saling berhubungan (partisipasi, penelitian dan tindakan). Dalam prosesnya, peneliti datang dengan ahli gizi, kader Posyandu, dan ibu balita yang terkena gizi buruk. Program pertama menciptakan kelompok belajar untuk membuatnya lebih mudah untuk mengatur dan meneliti bersama, yang disebut Sekolah Balita "Anak Aktif Ceria". Hasil yang diperoleh menunjukkan bahwa ada peningkatan pengetahuan ibu balita dan seperti yang diharapkan peningkatan berat badan sebagai bukti nyata bahwa orang tua menerapkan pengetahuan yang diperoleh melalui sekolah balita. Kata Kunci: ibu balita, malnutrisi, nutrisi balita, parenting, sekolah balita

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Social Justice and the Politics of Emotions

Human Geography ◽

10.1177/194277861100400207 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 76-90 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Barbara Van Wijnendaele

Keyword(s):

Social Justice ◽

Action Research ◽

Young People ◽

Participatory Action Research ◽

Social Research ◽

Participatory Action ◽

Structured Representation

Based on research with poor young people about the empowering impact of participatory action research (PAR), this article points to the role of emotions in confirming or subverting processes of oppression. Although participatory action research increasingly recognises emotion as part of social research, I argue that PAR is still very much associated with reflection and structured representation as key to empowerment and change. There is still relatively little attention to how our ordinary, everyday emotions mediate processes of oppression or resistance, and to the importance of changing how we feel as an act of resistance.

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