TY - BOOK AU - Lawson,Hal A. AU - Caringi,James AU - Pyles,Loretta AU - Jurkowski,Janine AU - Bozlak,Christine TI - Participatory Action Research T2 - Pocket Guide to Social Work Research Methods Series SN - 9780190204396 AV - LB1028.24 -- .L39 2015eb U1 - 300.72 PY - 2015/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press, Incorporated KW - Communities - Research KW - Electronic books N1 - Cover -- Series -- Participatory Action Research -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Introducing Participatory Action Research -- 2 Child Welfare Participatory Action Research Design Teams for Workforce Reconfiguration, Organizational Innovation, and Policy Change -- 3 Participatory Action Research with Youth -- 4 A Complex, Community-Based Participatory Action Research Design to Address Obesity in Young Children and Their Families -- 5 The Critical-Emancipatory Tradition of Participatory Action Research in Postdisaster Recovery Settings in the Global South -- 6 Summary Reflections and Lessons Learned -- Key Websites for ParticipatoryAction Research -- References -- Index N2 - Conventional textbooks present PAR from a distanced perspective and with the assumption that beginners will gain practical PAR knowledge on their own. This book provides real world examples--first-hand accounts by the researchers who designed and implemented these PAR innovations. Shared recommendations and lessons learned provided in the final chapter are a unique contribution to students and early career researchers UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=1876221 ER -