Participatory Action Research: Theory and Methods for Engaged Inquiry

✍ Scribed by Jacques M. Chevalier, Daniel J. Buckles

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 434
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Fully revised and updated, this second edition of Participatory Action Research (PAR) provides new theoretical insights and many robust tools that will guide researchers, professionals and students from all disciplines through the process of conducting action research ‘with’ people rather than ‘for’ them or ‘about’ them. PAR is collective reasoning and evidence-based learning focussed on social action. It has immediate relevance in fields ranging from community development to education, health, public engagement, environmental issues and problem solving in the workplace. This new edition has been extensively revised to create a user-friendly textbook on PAR theory and practice.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Module 1: Advancing theory
1 Ins and outs of participatory action research
2 Pragmatic, psychosocial and critical PAR
Module 2: Design and facilitation
3 Planning systems that learn
4 Participatory action monitoring and evaluation
5 Measuring with measure
6 Skills, process design and ethics
Module 3: Exploring problems
7 Getting to the roots
8 Participatory mapping and Citizen Science
9 Factors at play
10 Paradox
Module 4: Knowing the actors
11 Stakeholder basics
12 Critical stakeholder thinking
13 Social Analysis CLIP
14 Positions and values
Module 5: Assessing options
15 Thinking outside the box
16 Reconciling differences
17 Anticipating the future
Module 6: Understanding systems
18 System Dynamics
19 Domain Analysis
20 Breaking the dependency on tobacco production
Conclusion
Index