scholarly journals A participatory action research on the care for water and life on Earth: a case study of interreligious and intercultural engagements in the time of the pandemic in Thailand

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (15) ◽  
pp. 156-176
Author(s):  
Rey Ty
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Environmental Advocacy ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Environmental Care ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The One ◽  
Life On Earth

This article presented a report on an ongoing research project that integrates culture, religion and the environment. Dialectically, the Bible guides this study in the same way that this project responded to the water crisis and the environmental realities obtaining in the real world today. The paper problematizes the lack of direct citizen action on the burning issue of caring for water and life on Earth. Specifically, this article presented a case study in Thailand that deals with a community participatory action research that involves environmental advocacy in the classroom at the university level on the one hand and environmental care through a planting project with the local intercultural and interreligious community on the other hand. The pandemic determines the ebb and flow of the progress of the project, including its sustainability.

scholarly journals A Participatory Action Research Method in a Rural Community of Mexico

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 1197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rubi Arellano ◽  
Fabricio Balcazar ◽  
Sergio Suarez ◽  
Francisco Alvarado
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Community Interventions ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Need To Evaluate ◽  
Community Issues ◽  
To Come

For several decades, community interventions have promoted community development with strategies involving capacity building, advocacy, social change, and empowerment. Although community interventions intend to ameliorate social and economic inequalities, there is still a need to evaluate the outcomes of Participatory Action Research (PAR). PAR approaches have demonstrated to be a helpful tool for addressing and identifying community issues and strengths, while leading community members into action. The PAR approach described in this case study of “Ciudad Renace” (Town Reborn)—the Concerns Report Method (CRM)—provided a process for the community to come together and identify main issues, organize, and take actions. The findings suggest multiple activities and outcomes in areas like environmental contamination, social services, and education. Participatory methodologies like the Concerns report Method provided opportunities for community members to become engaged in pursing issues and addressing their own needs. The implications for community psychology research and practice are discussed.

A cross-university initiative to enhance SOTL through a students as partners approach

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 218
Author(s):  
Colin Bryson
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Western Washington ◽  
Traditional Structures ◽  
Washington University

This case study evaluates a new initiative to establish a cross-disciplinary forum focusing on enhancing learning, teaching and the student experience. All staff and students are welcome to participate and participants set the agenda themselves. The intention is to have open and informal dialogue and to work in partnership towards setting up collective participatory action-research projects. This is modelled on the Teaching and Learning Academy at Western Washington University (Werder and Otis, 2010). An important aim was to create a space to give voice for those - the so-called ‘hard to reach’- who do not get such opportunities in traditional structures. There have been many challenges to creating a sustainable and successful working model, not least such barriers as communications, creating time and opportunity and working against current dominant cultures. Nonetheless, staff and students, including many international students, have participated and found legitimacy to discuss their own priorities. 

scholarly journals Analysing participatory video through the capability approach – A case study in Quart de Poblet (Valencia, Spain)

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 282-301 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alejandra Boni ◽  
Aurora López-Fogués ◽  
Gynna Millán ◽  
Sergio Belda-Miquel
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Young People ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Capability Approach ◽  
Participatory Process ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Participatory Video ◽  
The Capability Approach

The aim of this paper is to analyse participatory video as a participatory action research method through the lenses of the capability approach. In order to do this, we used a participatory video experience that took place in the municipality of Quart de Poblet (Valencia, Spain) from February to March 2014. The participants were 11 young people between 16 and 24 years of age, severely affected by the economic crisis that has hit Spain in recent years. To develop our analysis, we introduced the participatory video as a technique and a process within the participatory action research methods. Then, we analysed the participatory process to verify the extent to which it had contributed to expanding the capabilities and agency of the participants. The evidence revealed a significant expansion of the awareness capability and, in some cases, of the capability for voice. In contrast, the capability to aspire and the agency of the participants were not expanded, due to contextual factors and the limitations of the process itself.

Ethical Dilemmas in Participatory Action Research: A Case Study from the Disability Community

2002 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meredith Minkler ◽  
Pamela Fadem ◽  
Martha Perry ◽  
Klaus Blum ◽  
Leroy Moore ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Assisted Suicide ◽  
Sample Selection ◽  
Problem Area ◽  
Ethical Challenges ◽  
Physician Assisted Suicide ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Education And Social Change

Participatory action research (PAR) is a collaborative approach to inquiry for education and social change that is gaining increasing prominence in health education. This case study explores the use of PAR by and with a community of people with disabilities in addressing a polarizing issue in that community: death with dignity or physician-assisted suicide legislation. Following a brief review of the debate within the community about this issue and the goals, methods, and findings of this project, the authors examine four key ethical challenges. These are dilemmas in issue selection when the community is deeply divided over a problem area, inclusion and exclusion in study team makeup and sample selection, insider/outsider issues, and how best to use findings in ways that can unite and strengthen the community. The implications of these issues for health educators and others engaged in community-based PAR efforts are presented.

scholarly journals Agroecological Transitions: A Systematic Review of Research Approaches and Prospects for Participatory Action Methods

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erwan Sachet ◽  
Ole Mertz ◽  
Jean-François Le Coq ◽  
Gisella S. Cruz-Garcia ◽  
Wendy Francesconi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Agroecological Transition ◽  
The One ◽  
Primary Type

There have been many calls for an agroecological transition to respond to food shocks and crises stemming from conventional food systems. Participatory action research and transformative epistemologies, where communities are research actors rather than objects, have been proposed as a way to enhance this transition. However, despite numerous case studies, there is presently no overview of how participatory approaches contribute to agroecological transitions. The present article therefore aims to understand the effect of applying participatory action research (PAR) in agroecology. We undertook a systematic review of articles reporting methods and results from case studies in agroecological research. On the one hand, our systematic review of 347 articles shows that the agroecological research scope is broad, with all three types—as science, a set of practices and social movement—well-represented in the corpus. However, we can see a clear focus on agroecology “as a set of practices” as the primary type of use of the concept. On the other hand, we found a few case studies (23) with a participatory approach while most studies used extractive research methods. These studies show that understanding the drivers and obstacles for achieving an agroecological transition requires long-term research and trust between researchers and farmers. Such transformative epistemologies open doors to new questions on designing long-term PAR research in agroecology when confronted with a short-term project-based society.

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