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Learning from feminist participatory action research: A framework for responsive and generative research practices with young people Action Res. (IF 1.808) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Kristen P. Goessling
Feminist participatory action researchers (FPAR) recognize transformative praxis as a political, relational, deeply felt and embodied experience that centers issues of power, participation, and relationality. This paper offers an in-depth exploration of FPAR praxis from a study conducted with young people who were learning to be activists in a youth-led organization in British Columbia. This work highlights
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Taking boys seriously: Utilising participatory action research to tackle compounded educational disadvantage Action Res. (IF 1.808) Pub Date : 2024-01-13 A. Hamilton, S. Morgan, B. Murphy, K. Harland
This paper presents successive phases of Taking Boys Seriously (TBS), a longitudinal participatory action research initiative bringing together diverse educational bodies and indigenous educators across a highly stratified education system in a contested society. The voices and everyday life and school experiences of adolescent boys are positioned firmly at the centre of a research methodology aimed
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Visualizing loss and agency with the families of missing migrants of the Mediterranean: Design and scale in action research Action Res. (IF 1.808) Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Odessa Gonzalez Benson, Vadim Besprozvany, Bader AlBader, Elena Godin, Antonio Siciliano, Imed Soltani
In the migrant journey across the Mediterranean Sea, thousands have perished and many more have gone missing. Behind every missing migrant is a community awaiting closure and demanding answers. Thi...
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How long-term emancipatory programming facilitates participatory evaluation: Building a methodology of participation through research with youth in Honduras Action Res. (IF 1.808) Pub Date : 2023-03-06 Warren Dodd, Sara Wyngaarden, Sally Humphries, Esmeralda Lobo Tosta, Veronica Zelaya Portillo, Paola Orellana
Empowerment and participation are promoted as critical factors in meaningful development processes; however, action-oriented researchers face challenges in fostering genuine empowerment and meaning...
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Centering community building to facilitate transformative change for new teachers: An action research study Action Res. (IF 1.808) Pub Date : 2022-12-30 Erica Gilbertson, Aliki Nicolaides
In the context of increasingly complex challenges facing 21st century school systems, action research has incredible potential to help leaders address persistent problems and implement context-spec...
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Consolidating strategies for innovative business models Action Res. (IF 1.808) Pub Date : 2022-12-16 Shuhui Huang, Chun-Liang Chen
To help face an unknown future, including ecological and social crisis, the public requires similar opportunities as government in problem solving. Deliberative democracy can facilitate quick respo...
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Autoethnographic engagement in participatory action research: Bearing witness to developmental transformations for college student activists Action Res. (IF 1.808) Pub Date : 2022-12-11 MaiNeng Vang, Matthew Wolfgram, Bailey Smolarek, Lena Lee, Payeng Moua, Ariana Thao, Odyssey Xiong, Pa Kou Xiong, Ying Xiong, Lisa Yang
This article documents and analyzes autoethnographic engagement in participatory action research (PAR)—a reflective, irritative, and dialogic writing and team-discussion process which documents res...
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Preparing educational leaders through action research Action Res. (IF 1.808) Pub Date : 2022-12-05 Shannon Alpert, Michael Dean, William Ewell
This article explores the development, structure, and continuous improvement model of an Action Research education doctorate program research methodology course sequence. The aim of the study is to...
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“In accordance with age and maturity”: Children’s perspectives, conceptions and insights regarding their capacities and meaningful participation Action Res. (IF 1.808) Pub Date : 2022-12-02 Emmie Henderson-Dekort, Hedwig van Bakel, Veronica Smits, Tine Van Regenmortel
Embedded within family law proceedings and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC, 1989) there is ambiguity surrounding the terms rights, participation, best interests, and...
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Images and indicators: mixing participatory methods to build inclusive rigour Action Res. (IF 1.808) Pub Date : 2022-11-10 Tiffany Fairey, Pamina Firchow, Peter Dixon
Participatory methods seek to counter the extractive nature of mainstream research methods by putting control into the hands of research subjects. But participation itself does not guarantee agains...
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How to do action research for transformations at a time of eco-social crisis, by Hilary S. Bradbury. Elgar, 2022. Four characters in search of a book review Action Res. (IF 1.808) Pub Date : 2022-10-14 Kent Glenzer
What are the crucial ingredients missing in our search for transformative – structural, cultural, political-economic – changes to entrenched systems of oppression right now? Why do so many smart, i...
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Epistemic injustice and dissidence: A bibliometric analysis of the literature on Participatory Action Research hosted on the Web of Science Action Res. (IF 1.808) Pub Date : 2022-09-25 Antonio Delgado-Baena, Laura Serrano, Rocío Vela-Jiménez, Rocío López-Montero, Antonio Sianes
For decades, Participatory Action Research (PAR) has been extended as a scientific praxis applied in different contexts, characterised by the involvement of participating groups and oriented toward...
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Empathy in action research Action Res. (IF 1.808) Pub Date : 2022-08-11 Marina Apgar
Empathy is commonly referred to as “walking in another’s shoes” – it is the feeling that you understand and share another person’s experience. Sharing of lived experience is at the heart of relationality in action research (e.g. (Bradbury & Divecha, 2020)). When Orlando Fals Borda was experimenting on the Caribbean coast of Colombia in the 1970s his practice “did not follow a recipe, but instead, it
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Love as an energizing feature of action research for territorial development Action Res. (IF 1.808) Pub Date : 2022-06-12 Miren Larrea
In the face of today’s urgent societal challenges, there are constant calls for regional governments to respond to them. Yet, policies, including those developed through action research, appear to ...
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Proposing an emancipatory pedagogy of body-mapping in higher education: Theory and practical integration of arts-based research as a form of Action Research for Transformation Action Res. (IF 1.808) Pub Date : 2022-05-20 Anna CohenMiller, Aigul Rakisheva, Nurlygul Smat
Drawing from Paolo Freire and bell hooks, we reconceptualize the arts-based method (ABR) of body-mapping as a form of Action Research for Transformation (ART) in the higher education classroom. As ...
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In search of the ontology of participation in Participatory Action Research: Orlando Fals-Borda’s Participatory Turn, 1977–1980 Action Res. (IF 1.808) Pub Date : 2022-05-18 Juan Mario Díaz-Arévalo
When did sociologist Orlando Fals-Borda name his method Participatory Action Research (PAR), and what were the epistemological implications of this shift from action research to PAR? To address the...
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Shining light on the dark side of action research: Power, relationality and transformation Action Res. (IF 1.808) Pub Date : 2022-05-05 Koen P.R. Bartels, Victor J. Friedman
An important aim of the Action Research Journal is encouraging people to get involved in action research in order to promote transformative change across the globe. The journal subscribes to a relational manifesto in which “action researchers are called to contribute to conversations-for-change about ways of knowing, doing and being that invite us to develop shared learning platforms, alongside people
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Art practice with migrant women: Three challenges to rediscovering home Action Res. (IF 1.808) Pub Date : 2022-04-29 Mastoureh Fathi, Rabia Nasimi
The paper is based on an arts-based project that was aimed at understanding what ‘home’ means to migrant women in London. The project entailed teaching art techniques to 36 women participants and t...
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Imaginal knowing in action research Action Res. (IF 1.808) Pub Date : 2022-03-07 Pleuntje van Meer
This article explores how imaginal knowing can contribute to learning and action research. I relate this to a need for organizations to learn differently for bringing sustainable results that nouri...
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Artfulness in the Organisational Playground: Actions and choices-Editorial Action Res. (IF 1.808) Pub Date : 2022-02-26 Rob Warwick, James Traeger, Sujata Khandekar, Maria Riestra
Let us start at the beginning of this Special Issue on Artfulness with the Call for Papers. As a reminder, we invited contributors to write from their experience and to experiment with bringing the...
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Caucasus edition: Decentralized transnational network as a pivotal structure for peacebuilding in non-democratic environments Action Res. (IF 1.808) Pub Date : 2022-02-21 Philip Gamaghelyan
In 2021, only a few locally led peacebuilding institutions worked to build bridges across the Armenian–Azerbaijani conflict that had divided the two societies for over three decades. This stood in ...
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Fun, engaging and easily shareable? Exploring the value of co-creating vlogs with citizens from disadvantaged neighbourhoods Action Res. (IF 1.808) Pub Date : 2022-02-20 Nicole S. Goedhart, Eva Lems, Teun Zuiderent-Jerak, Carina A. C. M. Pittens, Jacqueline E. W. Broerse, Christine Dedding
The use of vlogs is promising in participatory action research (PAR) that aims to enhance the health and well-being of citizens. Vlogs have the potential to reach a wide audience, transcending the ...
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Artfulness in the organisational playground: Actions and choices Action Res. (IF 1.808) Pub Date : 2022-02-17 Rob Warwick, Sujata Khandekar, James Traeger, Maria Soledad Riestra
Let us start at the beginning of this Special Issue on Artfulness with the Call for Papers. As a reminder we invited contributors to write from their experience and to experiment with bringing their entire selves to their organizational and community work. We highlighted that this means ‘not only the rational and logical parts of who we are, but also our creative, intuitive, relational, and artistic
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Appreciating situations of breakdown for researcher reflexivity Action Res. (IF 1.808) Pub Date : 2022-02-14 Danielle Treacy
Responding to the identified need for reflection, critique, and evaluations of appreciative inquiry (AI), a form of action research, this article presents a critical reflection on an application of AI in a cross-cultural music education research project. AI was selected as it appeared to both have potential for addressing the complexities related to power imbalances, ethnocentrism, and coloniality
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Toward equity: Power, cultural hegemony, and organizations Action Res. (IF 1.808) Pub Date : 2021-11-11 Kent Glenzer
Behind Action Research for Transformations (ART) and the Action Research Journal’s seven quality choice points nestle both a plea and demand for equity. If equity is about resources made accessible to or concretely claimed by structurally marginalized group—so they may achieve outcomes akin to privileged groups which get such resources as a matter of course—three shifts in resources are essential:
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Into the periphery: Acting into fleeting, unfinished, just perceptible movements of experience in scenes of joint action Action Res. (IF 1.808) Pub Date : 2021-10-30 Juliana Schneider
Much of what goes on in organisational life happens at the edge of language, in the form of vague stirrings, fleeting feelings or small gestures. In the midst of relating to others, we may sense a potential new opening or an ill-defined disquiet. Usually, it is only later that we can make reference to a some-thing that has since emerged. I offer two reflective narratives of moments of action occurring
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Editorial: Caring in action research Action Res. (IF 1.808) Pub Date : 2021-10-07 Kent Glenzer, Hilary Bradbury
It is a humble verb: “To care.” We say we care when we see the devastation of mega-storms and wildfires, and Pacific islands disappearing in a rising ocean. We care about Black lives, about Afghan women, about indigenous people, all dispossessed and done violence to by the same world-historical processes that create great wealth and well-being for some. We care about our families, friends, and ourselves
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Doing feminist participatory action research for disrupting traditional gender discourses with Indonesian Muslim kindergarten teachers Action Res. (IF 1.808) Pub Date : 2021-09-22 Vina Adriany, Hani Yulindrasari, Raden Safrina
The purpose of this article is to explore the authors’ and the co-authors’ reflexivity in feminist participatory action research, conducted in three kindergartens in Indonesia, aiming to disrupt traditional gender discourses in early childhood education settings. Kindergarten is one of the most gendered spaces that perpetuate the binary between femininities and masculinities. This research takes place
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Artfulness as a dimension of professional practice in organizations and action research: Acknowledging sensory-aware and embodied attunement in professional organizations Action Res. (IF 1.808) Pub Date : 2021-08-24 Julie Borup Jensen
This article addresses the importance of action research to provide approaches to emphasizing and acknowledging artful aspects of professional practice in public sector organizations. The article introduces the philosophical works of Knud Ejler Løgstrup and Kari Martinsen as perspectives on artful aspects of professional practices and knowing. In order to concentrate on artful aspects of the research
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Four practices for conducting feminist participatory action research with young women Action Res. (IF 1.808) Pub Date : 2021-08-11 Nour Shimei, Maya Lavie-Ajayi
While there has been an increase in action research explicitly defined as feminist in orientation, there has not been sufficient discussion on the actual translation of feminist theory into research practices. The aim of this article is to contribute to the growing body of knowledge labelled Feminist Participatory Action Research (FPAR) by articulating specific research practices for conducting research
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Zining as artful method: Facilitating zines as participatory action research within art museums Action Res. (IF 1.808) Pub Date : 2021-08-05 Jade French, Emma Curd
‘DIY’ publications called zines have long been a way for marginalized communities to record their stories, spread information and organize. However, this article presents zines as a potential research tool for action researchers who are working within organisational contexts. The authors, both museum professionals, action researchers and zinesters, use examples from their research within art museums
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Launching support groups for informal caregivers of people living with dementia within participatory action research Action Res. (IF 1.808) Pub Date : 2021-06-30 Merle Varik, Marju Medar, Kai Saks
Support groups are one possibility to empower informal carers and accordingly have spread across many countries because of their informal, inexpensive nature and because of their effectiveness. This paper aims to reflect on the viewpoints and experiences of the lessons learned from the participatory action research (PAR) conducted from 2016 to 2019. During PAR, several support groups in different regions
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The affordances of PAR for a school-community partnership to enhance learner support in socio-economically challenged communities Action Res. (IF 1.808) Pub Date : 2021-06-23 Lesley Wood, Mary McAteer
Although complex reasons exist for the poor state of education in socio-economically challenged communities in South Africa, improving parental support to learners is one approach to buffer contextual adversities. Yet, historically, collaboration between school and parent has been problematic. We hypothesized that a participatory action research approach might be useful to develop positive relations
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“I don’t feel studied”: Reflections on power-consciousness in action research with college student sex workers Action Res. (IF 1.808) Pub Date : 2021-06-20 Terah J Stewart
An overarching component of PAR is that there should be participant engagement between researchers and other participants as members of a/the community under inquiry. This expectation while powerful, can also prove to be prohibitive for studies seeking to engage communities with stigmatized and/or criminalized identities, which was the case as I sought to engage a PAR methodology with college student
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Building bridges: A co-creation intervention preparatory project based on female Syrian refugees’ experiences with physical activity Action Res. (IF 1.808) Pub Date : 2021-04-20 Camilla Bakkær Simonsen, Knud Ryom
Participation in sports and physical activities is perceived as a means of increasing well-being and foster social inclusion of refugees in their new host societies. However, researchers criticize the existing approaches in sports-related integration-programs for not taking into account the specific needs and interests of refugees. The purpose of this study was to investigate how female Syrian refugees
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Using a virtual platform for an asynchronous co-operative inquiry Action Res. (IF 1.808) Pub Date : 2021-04-11 Susan Crowther, Doreen Balabanoff, Lesley Kay, Jenny Hall
A participatory action research (PAR) study using co-operative inquiry methods was employed to examine the topic ‘spirituality and childbirth’. Co-operative inquiry (CI) reclaims the right of co-researchers to create knowledge from their own lived experience, an approach that works ‘with’ rather than ‘on’ people, valuing individual contributions. Traditionally, CI has been organised synchronously in
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Theatre as method: Performance creation through action research Action Res. (IF 1.808) Pub Date : 2021-02-15 Gina L Grandi
In order to truly examine critical cultural and social issues pertaining to young people, researchers must find ways to overcome the ways in which young people naturally filter their responses when speaking with adults, as these filters may limit what researchers are able to discover through interviews and focus groups. Working through theatre offers the opportunity for researcher and participant to
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Art of transition: A Deleuzoguattarian framework Action Res. (IF 1.808) Pub Date : 2021-01-17 Emma Rose, Amanda Bingley, Macarena Rioseco
This article reflects on a funded participatory artmaking project that engaged displaced people whose traumatic experiences prior to exile in the UK necessitated referral for psychological support. Reflections are informed by action research method involving a cyclical reflexive feedback loop, augmented by intra-action and deterritorialisation. Within this context, the Deleuzoguattarian framework is
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Whose program is this? Negotiations in designing a student-initiated and student-led Jewish-Arab/Palestinian dialogue program on campus Action Res. (IF 1.808) Pub Date : 2020-11-29 Yael Skorkowich, Daniella Arieli, Javier Simonovich, Pauline Gur, Bseel Atamleh
This research examines the Nice 2 Meet U intervention program which, unlike other programs promoting dialogue between Arab/Palestinian and Jewish students on Israeli campuses, was a grassroots program initiated and moderated by students. The program was designed jointly by the initiators, the participants and the researcher/advisor using action research. The objective of the current study was to describe
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Reflections on ‘doing’ participatory data analysis with women experiencing long-term homelessness Action Res. (IF 1.808) Pub Date : 2020-11-26 Mary-Elizabeth Vaccaro
This paper draws on the lessons learned from the [in]visible project, a community-based research partnership that aimed to learn more about the experiences of women, without children in their care, who experience chronic homelessness in Hamilton, Ontario. Through involving 70 women as participants, we used narrative and arts-based research methods to learn about the experiences and housing needs of
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My living theory of a professional framework for art education Action Res. (IF 1.808) Pub Date : 2020-11-16 Merna Meyer, Lesley Wood
This article explains my living educational theory in the form of a professional framework that I call PART, which conceptually unites the roles of the artist, researcher and teacher (ART) to foster critical, participatory (P), and socially engaged action. I discuss how I improved my practice over four action research cycles to be more in line with my professed values of creativity, connectedness and
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An emerging conversation between action research and conflict transformation Action Res. (IF 1.808) Pub Date : 2020-11-09 Susan H Allen, Victor J Friedman
This themed issue was inspired by emerging conversations between practitioners in the fields of action research and conflict transformation - a conversation mirrored us both as guest editors. We see the potential for the approaches of each of our fields to strengthen each other’s work towards shared goals of transformation supporting social justice. Therefore, we offer this issue on Action Research
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Patient involvement in the development of the Danish surgical breast cancer patient pathway – An action research project Action Res. (IF 1.808) Pub Date : 2020-10-13 Ingrid Annette Zøylner, Pia Kirkegaard, Peer Michael Christiansen, Kirsten Lomborg
Although patient involvement is on the political agenda, the influence on clinical practice is poorly described. The aim of this study was to explore and evaluate the participatory process of involving patients and relatives in development of a surgical breast cancer patient pathway. The overall design was insider action research and included two Danish surgical breast cancer clinics. In dialogue meetings
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An Indigenous and Western paradigm to understand gestational diabetes mellitus: Reflections and insights Action Res. (IF 1.808) Pub Date : 2020-10-13 Joanne Whitty-Rogers, Brenda Cameron, Vera Caine
Indigenous women face many barriers to maternal care during pregnancy in Canada. A participatory study was conducted in two First Nations Communities in Nova Scotia, Canada to gain new knowledge about Mi’kmaw women’s experiences of living with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM). Relational ethics helped guide this journey. In this paper we describe how Indigenous and Western approaches were used to
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Deconstructing positionality in conflict resolution: Reflections from first-person action research in Pakistan and the South Caucasus Action Res. (IF 1.808) Pub Date : 2020-10-12 Alexander Cromwell, Margarita Tadevosyan
This article explores the role of first-person action research in uncovering how positionality influences conflict resolution practice. Specifically, it examines the experiences of two scholar-practitioners conducting first-person action research in different conflict/post-conflict settings. The case studies include first-person action research on encounter programs with Pakistani youth and first-person
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Knowledge mobilization: Stepping into interdependent and relational space using co-creation Action Res. (IF 1.808) Pub Date : 2020-10-12 Yvonne Skipper, Debra J Pepler
In recent years, there has been a growing interest in using co-creation approaches, with academics and partners working together to create research and interventions to achieve impact. Action research typically starts with the question ‘how can we improve this situation?’ and then co-creates knowledge with and not on or for people. This approach contrasts with conventional approaches in which academics
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Upscaling community transformation Action Res. (IF 1.808) Pub Date : 2020-10-10 Kent Glenzer, Simon Divecha
This themed issue offers seven examples of upscaling community transformation, a rich opportunity for action research (AR) to contribute to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal #17: re-vitalize global partnerships.
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Feminist cooperative inquiry: Grassroots women define and deepen empowerment through dialogue Action Res. (IF 1.808) Pub Date : 2020-09-26 Sujata Khandekar, Vinaya Ghewde, Anita Kamble, Anwari Khan, Pallavi Palav, Dwarka Pawar, Sheela Pawar, Mumtaz Shaikh, Lakshmi Lingam
This paper is an account of feminist research influenced by Cooperative Inquiry (CI) described as Feminist Cooperative Inquiry. A team of grassroots women leaders-turned-co-researchers, from different marginalised social locations (on gender, caste, class, education, livelihood axes) in India, developed this methodology to collectively analyse their own empowering journeys to make meanings of empowerment
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Participating in social exclusion: A reflexive account of collaborative research and researcher identities in the field Action Res. (IF 1.808) Pub Date : 2020-09-20 Simon Newitt, Nigel Patrick Thomas
This paper offers a critical reflexive perspective on a Participatory Action Research project with young people at a site of ‘advanced urban marginality’ (Wacquant, 2008). Its purpose is to explore the ways in which habitus based inequalities in the research field (Bourdieu, 1977) contributed to a parallel process of marginalisation and exclusion in the act of participating. More specifically, we examine
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Action methods for faster transformation: Relationality in action Action Res. (IF 1.808) Pub Date : 2020-08-11 Hilary Bradbury, Simon Divecha
You think because you understand “1” you must understand “2”
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Applying mixed methods action research to explore how public participation in an Indian City could better resolve urban sustainability problems Action Res. (IF 1.808) Pub Date : 2020-07-30 Sanskriti Menon, Janette Hartz-Karp
Public participation in governance is regarded as a key element in enhancing urban sustainability. While there is a wealth of participation efforts in Indian cities, there are inadequate processes for regular, inclusive, egalitarian, informed and well-structured democratic participation that provide a real say to citizens in public decision-making. ‘Deliberative democracy’ has emerged as one way to
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Implementing genuine participatory action research with Aboriginal Elders: The Ngulluk Koolunga Ngulluk Koort project Action Res. (IF 1.808) Pub Date : 2020-07-01 Clair Scrine, Brad Farrant, Carol Michie, Carrington Shepherd, Michael Wright
This paper describes the processes involved in establishing a genuinely collaborative and participatory role for nine Aboriginal Elders in a five-year participatory action research project focused on early child development in the Perth metropolitan area of Western Australia. The project goals are to better inform and align policy and program design with Aboriginal values, world views and concepts
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The Language Warriors: Transcending ideologies on bilingualism in education Action Res. (IF 1.808) Pub Date : 2020-06-29 Lara Alonso, Khanh Le
This article explores how middle school youth view bilingualism and act on these views to transform their school and their communities. Following a post-structuralist perspective on language and society, a lens from raciolinguistic ideologies, and a creative justice approach, we developed a Participatory Action Research project in which seventh and eighth grade students became co-researchers as we
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Feminist participatory action research with men to prevent intimate partner violence Action Res. (IF 1.808) Pub Date : 2020-06-28 Liza Lorenzetti, Christine A Walsh
Employing Reid and Frisby’s feminist participatory action research model (FPAR) as a guide, men from diverse ethno-cultural backgrounds worked with women leaders to take action on the issue of intimate partner violence. Engaging with four interconnected phases, the research team adopted shared roles of leadership which led to 29 collective actions. Through trust-building dialogues, we interrogated
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Keys to unlocking service provider engagement in constrained co-production partnerships Action Res. (IF 1.808) Pub Date : 2020-06-03 Tone Larsen, Jan E Karlsen, Hildegunn Sagvaag
The article reports on research conducted in a public, specialised mental health and substance abuse service unit in Norway. The inquiry followed an action research framework, with patients, leaders and staff as co-researchers. Power sharing within such constrained institutions suggests that service providers risk engaging in paternalistic or avoidance approaches. Despite the inherent challenges of
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A charge to educational action researchers Action Res. (IF 1.808) Pub Date : 2020-05-21 Dusty Columbia Embury, Melissa Parenti, Cherese Childers-McKee
We conceive of education broadly and see it occurring in a diverse set of places and spaces, in classrooms and communities. We want to challenge our educational researcher colleagues to leverage the power of action research to better effect change within their schools and communities. We will point to constructive steps for this new way of working in the papers of the special issue we introduce.
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Reflections on combining action research and actor-network theory Action Res. (IF 1.808) Pub Date : 2020-04-27 Federico Piovesan
In this paper, I address two questions: do their dissimilarities prevent action research and actor-network theory from being used together? If not, how can they complement each other? To do so, I discuss literature from each approach, the only two studies I found that combine action research and actor-network theory (both from organization management) and anecdotes from my field-work experience on
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Learning from and with community-based and participatory action research: Constraints and adaptations in a youth-peacebuilding initiative in Haiti Action Res. (IF 1.808) Pub Date : 2020-04-21 Reina C Neufeldt, Rich Janzen
Participatory action research fits well with conflict resolution and peacebuilding; it is used by scholar-practitioners as part of field-based practice efforts that contribute to transforming conflict and add to scholarly knowledge. However, as Cynthia Chataway’s analysis of a participatory action research project undertaken with the Mohawk community of Kahnawake indicated, there are considerable constraints
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Everyday action research for complex times: A peacebuilder’s guide Action Res. (IF 1.808) Pub Date : 2020-04-19 Marie Pace
In the midst of the increasing intensity of our world, peacebuilding practice is rapidly transforming. These changes come with a growing recognition that complexity is a new type of problem that re...
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Enhancing STEM equity programs with action research Action Res. (IF 1.808) Pub Date : 2020-03-12 Catherine R Barber, John A Palasota, Michelle A Steiger, Ruth Ann Bagnall, Juan Carlos Reina, Jyoti Wagle, Yiyan Bai
Cultural diversity in professional fields, including science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), leads to greater innovation due to the improved range of ideas, perspectives, and talents tha...