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Showing 1 to 20 of 357 for “"participatory action research"”.
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Participatory Action Research for Emotionally Meaningful Stories
… and theoretically grounded understanding of participatory action research (PAR). My aim was to develop and explore PAR methods within three culturally different fishing communities located in India, Portugal and the UK in order to generate emotionally meaningful stories. The work was …
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Developing an Indigenous Tourism Course: Indigenizing Curriculum through Participatory Action Research
This research documents a Participatory Action Research (PAR) project that supported the development of a new Indigenous Tourism course within the Master of Arts in Tourism Management (MATM) program at Royal Roads University (RRU). Guided by principles of Indigenous Resurgence (Simpson, 2011) and …
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Participatory Action Research With People With Disabilities: Exploring Experiences Of Participation
The social model of disability requires that research about disability should be controlled and managed by people with disabilities themselves. Traditional research has tended to marginalise people with disabilities, and the outcomes have been meaningless and irrelevant to them. Three years ago I …
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The Study Circle. Participatory Action Research, With and For the Unemployed.
… unorthodox in comparison to more traditional research methodologies, participatory action research and the critical theory that supports such an approach has been an accepted research practice for over four decades. The fundamental aim of this methodology is to empower and emancipate …
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Participatory Action Research in a Psychiatric Unit: Striving Towards Optimal Practices
… acute psychiatric unit were investigated in this research using multiple qualitative methodologies, particularly Reflective Topical Autobiography and Participatory Action Research. The Participatory Action Research was undertaken in an acute psychiatric unit of a major public hospital in …
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Supporting Teachers as Transformative Intellectuals: Participatory Action Research in Human Rights Education
… are not widely embraced in U.S. schools. In this participatory action research (PAR) study, a group of five educators in the San Francisco Bay Area examined the development and implementation of HRE and social justice education.</p> <p>Broad research questions guided the group process, asking how …
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Leaders All: Teacher-Led Participatory Action Research At The Middle School Level
… to become school administrators. There is little participatory action research conducted by classroom-based educators on teachers’ perceptions of transcending the organizational, political, and cultural barriers to their own leadership. The dearth of such studies exemplifies an acute example of …
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Using a Learning Community to Manage Pain: A participatory action research study
This participatory action research study evaluated whether, bringing people who have chronic pain together in collaborative learning communities can have an impact upon the way they manage their chronic pain. Participatory action research has been used with other patient groups, but not with people …
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Pediatric Physical Therapists and Evidence Based Practice: A Participatory Action Research Project
… In addition, utilizing a collaborative, participatory action research approach, several strategies and outcomes were identified as a means to aid these individuals in improving their ability to use research evidence for clinical decision making.</p><p> Methods: The primary investigator …
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An online participatory action research inquiry into online inquiry-based music learning
… help in reaching their own music-learning goals. Participatory action research provided the study methodology, with participants acting as co-researchers who understood the purpose of the study and offered their perspectives on the issues, and myself acting as both primary researcher and …
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Transforming researchers and practitioners: The unanticipated consequences (significance) of Participatory Action Research (PAR)
… or come into contact with the Grand Bayou Participatory Action Research (PAR) project. Who Changes?, a book on institutionalizing participation in development, raises the issu of "where is the change?" in a participatory project (Blackburn1998). Fischer (2000), Forester (1992), and …
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The youth equity agents project : engaging critical literacies through youth participatory action research
… Agents, who were youth of color in a youth participatory action research (YPAR) project and class at Community High School (CHS). The dual purposes of this study were to partner with youth investigating personally important social justice issues and to produce new knowledge about engaging …
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Perspectives through play : playbuilding as participatory action research in arts-based professional development
… The study argues that playbuilding is a form of participatory action arts-based research particularly when positioned within the professional development setting. This qualitative study uses a narrative thematic analysis of the playbuilding process and workshop performance to examine how …
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An Unsolicited Sociotechnical Intervention in a Public System: A Participatory Action Research Approach
<p>This research concerns itself with Participatory Action Research in a hostile setting. The thrust is a sociotechnical one, with the intent being to enhance the capacity of the Wallop Public School System, Wallop, USA, to address its problem of racial disparate treatment of Black children. The …
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Examining Novice Teacher Development through the Clinical Supervision Process: A Participatory Action Research
The first clinical supervision experience can significantly impact a novice teacher's overall success during the early years of their teaching career (Robinson, 1998). It is a very stressful, challenging time, and for many, it is the first time he/she is asked to take on multiple roles aside from …
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Exploring the challenges of facilitating participatory action research with people living with HIV
This study describes a Participatory Action Research (PAR) project that was conducted in Masiphumelele (an informal settlement near Cape Town) in 2003/2004 with a group of 5 black, HIV positive people. The original aim of the study was to facilitate an empowerment process aimed at helping the …
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