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Participatory Action Research |
A cyclical, collaborative process that seeks to intentionally change members of the inquiry
- The mission is to change the community, or policies under study, differentiated from objective methods that seek only to describe, understand, and explain.
- With an overtone of empowerment, emancipation, and activism, the approach has been popular in education, feminist research, and social justice.
- The process is dynamic and cyclical in its sequence of planning, taking action, observing, evaluating, and critical reflection.
- Specific research methods tend to be flexible, qualitative, and ethnographic, including traditional observations, participant observation, and interviews.
- New movements in social design suggest ...