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Participatory Action Research

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ISBN-10: 1412953669

ISBN-13: 9781412953665

Edition: 2008

Authors: Alice McIntyre

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Participatory Action Research introduces a method that is ideal for researchers who are committed to co-developing research programs with people rather than for people. The book provides a history of PAR, its various strands, and the underlying tenets that guide most PAR projects. It then draws on two PAR projects that highlight three integral dimensions of PAR: the meaning of participation; the way action manifests itself in PAR projects; and the strategies for gathering, analyzing, and disseminating information. Here, the reader is exposed to how differently PAR is carried out depending on, for example, the issue under investigation, the site of the PAR project, the project participants,…    
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Book details

List price: $42.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/28/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 104
Size: 5.53" wide x 8.52" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

Alice McIntyre is the Director of Elementary Education and an Associate Professor at Hellenic College. She has conducted Participatory Action Research for over a decade. She authored three books and co-edited another, all of which discuss PAR as an approach for engaging with people in processes of reflection, education, and change. She is I am currently writing about a two-year PAR project with nine and ten-year-old Latina girls in the U.S., focusing on what it means for them to be girls.

Preface/Acknowledgements
Introduction
Participatory Action Research
Participation: What It Means, How It Works
Action and Change in Participatory Action Research
What Constitutes 'Research' in Participatory Action Research?
Concluding Reflections
References