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Participatory Action Research.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Pocket Guide to Social Work Research Methods SeriesPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (225 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780190204396
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Participatory Action ResearchDDC classification:
  • 300.72
LOC classification:
  • LB1028.24 -- .L39 2015eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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