PAR - Participatory Action Reserch Flashcards

Final preperartion

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What is PAR?

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  • A action plan that is made in response to distrust of traditional post-positivist research. (researcher with political and social agendas).
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What are some defining features of PAR(sum of individual terms): according to Brydon-miller

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  • Participatory:
    • researcher and the participant involved in the research process
  • Action (collaborative)
    • goal positive change to adress injustices
  • Research ( transformative)
    • social process of gathering and assessing knowledge
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What are some defining features of PAR(sum of individual terms): Kemmis and Mctaggart.

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  • Social process
  • Participatory
  • Practical and collaborative
    -Emancipatory
  • Critical
    -Reflexive
  • Process to transform both theory and practice
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PAR studies must have to include all seven defining feuture? ( true or false?)

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false

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What are some characteristic trait that support researchers in making judgement about the quality of research?

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  • community driven
  • prolonged engagement and consultation
  • project deliverables
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What are some research process on PAR?

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  • no one “ right way”
  • PAR is not linear process
  • 2 possible research spiral:
    1. action research spiral
    2. live phase PAR approach
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What is action research spiral?

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  • meaning working closely with participants and it includes a cycle of:
    # planning
    # acting and observing
    # reflecting
    the cycle
    plan –> act –> observe –> reflect
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Five phased PAR approach

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  • a better detailed approach of PAR

Frisby Outlines:
# setting the research question
# building trust
# data collection
# data analysis
# communicating

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what are some way to generate Data and Data analysis?

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  • not specified
    although
  • most common generating data –> interviews
  • data analysis- should align with research question
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what is the role of theory in PAR?

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  • Theoretical lens:
    # Theory is used to guide or inform PAR
  • Interruptive framework:
    # theory that helps to make sense of finding and to indetify action startegies
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what are some challenges of PAR?

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  • Due to it flexibility it is difficult to provide specific as to how researchers should work to adreess such challenges
  • establishing nd nurturing relationships
  • ensuring ongoing participant collaboration
  • indetifying action
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