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Showing 1 to 20 of 217 for “"participatory research"”.
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Empowering Early Childhood Teachers: A Community Based Participatory Research Approach
… have not developed at a comparable rate. Due to research on inequity in teacher work environment, the purpose of this case study was to explore the role of empowerment in the early childhood education (ECE) workforce, using Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) as a framework. This …
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Dignity, respect and grace in participatory research involving university teams.
… challenges through collaborative interventionist research efforts with organizational partners. By doing so, they increasingly engage in roles previously the purview of international development organizations. This research, through a critical research in information systems (CRIS) lens, evaluates …
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Trust as an Ethical Construct in Community Based Participatory Research Partnerships.
… lack of attention to trust in Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) partnerships. CBPR is a promising research orientation to reduce health inequities in communities of color. This research orientation has been deemed an ethical and trust building approach to health research. However, …
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A Social Network Perspective on Ownership and Self-Determination in Participatory Research
Participatory research (PR) is the co-creation of new knowledge by researchers working in equitable partnerships with those affected by the issue under study or those who will benefit from or ultimately act on its results. A core driver of PR is the self-determination of stakeholders who intend to …
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Investigating sharing skills in children with autism spectrum conditions through participatory research
… that have been designed using a user-centred participatory research approach. <br/>In order to address this need, a computer system has been developed to support children with Autism Spectrum Conditions in the acquisition of sharing skills, and provide opportunities for the subsequent …
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Exploring the Experiences of Vulnerable Families: A Critical Reflection on the Participatory Research Approach
This thesis documents research undertaken to understand the experience of families who have lived with domestic violence, substance misuse and subsequent child protection intervention. Initially a participatory methodology was adopted, which presented significant challenges. This thesis presents a …
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Children's Song-Makers as Messengers of Hope: Participatory Research with Implications for Teacher Educators
… folk and socially conscious children's music. Participatory research, based on the revolutionary education theories of Paulo Freire, guided the dialogues with the participants. These activist singer-songwriters were asked how they define social justice, how they involve children in singing, and …
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Compound Events and Exposure Science: Characterizing Mixtures and Assessing Cumulative Risks Using Participatory Research Methods
… exposure pathways, and community-based research. Rather than focusing on a single pollutant, it examined metal(loid)s, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), and dioxins across soil, rooftop-harvested rainwater, settled dust, and drinking …
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African American seniors’ perspectives on advance care planning: a virtue ethics community-based participatory research approach
… noted in the literature were found in this research. African-Americans are far less likely to write advance directives than white Americans but little is known about African-Americans’ perceptions of planning for who would speak for them if they were unable to speak in critical health …
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Healthcare Leadership in the Context of Cognitive Diseases of Aging: A Community-Based Participatory Research Model
… To date we have spent billions of dollars on research and public health measures that have repeatedly failed, but over the last decade it has become evident that much of these diseases can simply be averted through effective public health and community-based measures such as lifestyle change …
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Visual and participatory research methods in the development of mass communication health messages for underserved populations
… was to evaluate the benefits of using visual and participatory research techniques towards health message development. Demographic information and levels of physical activity were first obtained in a sample of older Hispanic women (n=23; aged 71.9 ± 7.6 years) living in the city of Chicago. …
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“During the pandemic, the sense of Ubuntu was fantastic”: a participatory research study commemorating community mobilisation
… of a community organization in a pandemic, the research question for this study was ‘What are the experiences and perceived effects of a community organisation engaging in a commemorative arts-based process for social innovation during a pandemic?'. The research methodology of this study was …
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Uncovering an Alternative Social Structure to Social Dominance: A Blend of Ethnography and Community Based Participatory Research
… methods of this study included Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) and Arts Based Research (ABR) as ways to generate middle-range theorizing and attempt to exercise decolonizing methodology. The collective social structure of the community organizing group under study was examined and …
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Tellin' It Like It Is: Disempowerment and Marginalization of First-generation, Low-income College Students: a Participatory Research
… university. Using dialogic introspection and participatory research, the participants reflected on their experiences in the areas of disempowerment, marginalization, educational equity, oppression and the needs and concerns of first-generation low-income students. Generative themes fell into …
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Process is just as critical as results: using community-based participatory research to unite environmental justice and sustainability
… efforts. To do this, I drew on community-based participatory research methods to elicit stakeholder perspectives on a local waterway remediation project in Milwaukee, WI. The objectives of my thesis were twofold: 1) conduct interviews to understand stakeholders’ definitions of injustice, as well …
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Exploration and harnessing of usable knowledge in interpretive participatory research : a case of women in the Zambian mining community
… study is informed by a pragmatic application of participatory action research (PAR) methodology in the mining community of Chingola - Zambia. The inquiry was motivated by argument in the literature for better articulation, conceptualisation and implementation of PAR and other grassroots …
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Participatory research with adults with Asperger's syndrome: using spatial analysis to explore how they make sense of their experience.
This thesis explores participatory research involving the author and a small group of adults with Asperger’s syndrome, as co-researchers. The research was based on the assumption that people with Asperger’s syndrome think differently from neuro-typical people (people who do not have Asperger’s …
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Involving People With Early-stage Dementia In Qualitative Research About Their Lifeworld Perspectives: Development Of A Participatory Research Model
The aim of the study was to develop a participatory research model drawing from qualitative research about the lifeworld perspectives of people with early-stage dementia. Twelve participants with early-stage dementia were recruited from a compensatory adult school VUK (Voksenskolen for Undervisning …
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A quién le importa? Exploring Latina Women's Diabetes Experiences at a Community Care Center: A Community-Based Participatory Research Study
… This study incorporates a CBPR (Community Based Participatory Research) approach with a LatCrit theoretical framework in order to recognize the efforts our community members make to better this health epidemic, as well as uplift and acknowledge Latina women as the agents and creators of …
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Using Constructivist Grounded Theory to Generate Participatory Research Empowerment Guideposts (PREGs) for African American Communities to Address Racial Health Disparities
… racial health disparities. Increasingly, researchers use participatory research in their health equity efforts. Participatory research is rooted in the principle of empowerment and centers community lived experience to generate meaningful solutions while shifting conventionally held …
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