What is Participatory Action Research

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Is an approach to research within communities that emphasizes participation of all stakeholders and action to solve community problems. Learn more in: Through the Eyes of Students and Faculty: A Conceptual Framework for the Development of Online Courses

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Research where researchers and participants collaborate to understand and ameliorate a problem. Learn more in: Community Development in Occupational Therapy Education: Learning From Global Experiences

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This is research involving those affected by the problem under investigation through a cyclical process of fact finding, action, reflection, leading to further inquiry and action for change. Emphasis is placed in dialoguing, critical reflection, co-learning and action to implement change ( Minkler, 2000 ). Learn more in: Educating Adults to Talk about Death and Dying to Assist Grieving Children: A Community Development Project

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A collaborative learning process who change practices as a result of their collaborative learning. Learn more in: The Civic University, the Engaged Scholar: Implications for Scholarly Work

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A shared, democratic process of research concerned with developing practical knowing to pursue worthwhile human purposes. Learn more in: Family-Centered Telehealth Supporting Motor Skills and Activity in Individuals With Rett Syndrome

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Methodology that involves action as an integral part of the research process itself. Its design emphasizes the involvement of research subjects as protagonists of the action as well as of the discussion that generates scientific knowledge. It seeks an awareness-raising effect –inspired by the ideas and practices of Paulo Freire, Lawrence Shenhouse or John Elliot– that causes social change in which the research subjects are the main protagonists. Learn more in: Dramatizing the Climate Emergency: Thinking Up New Cultural Mediators in Environmental Education

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A type of action research in which those most directly affected by a problem are actively involved in describing and analyzing the problem and bringing about change. Learn more in: Digital Storytelling

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A research methodology in which the participants are actively engaged in the research as co-researchers engaged in addressing issues related to oppression and social inequities. Learn more in: Teachers as Researchers: Participatory and Action Research

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An interventionist method that involves close collaboration between the researcher and practitioners. Learn more in: Knowledge Management Challenges in the Non-Profit Sector

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A subset of action research where participants being studied participate in the research process. Learn more in: Action Research in Practice-Based Doctoral Programs

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(PAR) is an approach to research in communities that emphasizes participation and action. It seeks to understand the world by trying to change it, collaboratively and following reflection. PAR emphasizes collective inquiry and experimentation grounded in experience and social history. Learn more in: Framework for Non-Invasive Learning Experience Management in Third Millennium Higher Education Ecosystems

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Participatory Action Research is doing research with people rather than on them. Such a posture requires acknowledgment that academic researchers are not outside the system, but rather are an elemental part of the composition of the system involved in the study. Learn more in: Conflict Resolution and Leadership Mindfulness into Action (MIA) for Cultural Humility and Awareness (MIA-CHA): Toward Ending Microaggressions and Fostering Harmony

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Participatory action research is an application of a research method where the researcher is also a co-learner in the research process in conjunction with the community being researched. One of the most important characteristics of participatory action research is the fact that participants whose lives are affected by the research initiative take an active role of its design. Learn more in: Competitive Smart Cities through Healthy Decision-Making

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Combines reflection and action, theory and practice, and collaborative efforts to help people and their communities thrive. Learn more in: The Ethnographic Vignette as Innovative Tool in Intersectional Social Justice Activist Research