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  title info:
    title: Action research
    sub title: the advantages and limitations of practice in responding to poor people's voices through microfinance
  name:
    name part: Banda-Mutalima, Irene
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource : illustrations.
  abstract: This case study highlights the importance and limitations of practice on participatory action research. Action research is concerned with action and learning as core themes. In participatory action research, the research community brings in their expertise and participates with the researcher to bring about new knowing while aiming to achieve change. The practitioner researcher has the advantage of basing their research vision on the practice they aim to research on and drawing from those experiences. At the same time, they need to be able to lay aside their value judgments, honed by practice, in order to allow other voices to inform the research. The challenge is maintaining the balance between drawing from those resources and separating themselves from what they know in order to objectively collect and analyze research data. This case study uses data from my 2016 PhD thesis to discuss the research journey with a rural community in Zimbabwe and an urban community in Zambia within the context of providing microfinance loans. The research focus was to listen, learn, and allow the voices of poor people to inform a new approach to lending money for livelihoods support. However, the research lenses were tinted by my experiences as a microfinance practitioner, and this affected and almost deviated the research trajectory. As I recovered from this setback and concluded my research, I learnt the reality of carrying value judgments into the research. This was inevitable, and I needed to have internalized ways of checking the influence of those judgments on the research. Most importantly I learnt the value of taking in all that comes through the research process as outcomes that warrant consideration. I also learnt the value of frequent reference to the methodology protocols as designed at the outset, and consciously accommodate adaptations informed by emerging data.
  target audience: specialized
  note: Irene Banda-Mutalima.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: f-rh---
    geographic code: f-za---
    geographic code: fs-----
  subject:
    topic: Action research
    geographic: Zimbabwe
  subject:
    topic: Action research
    geographic: Zambia
  subject:
    topic: Microfinance
    topic: Research heading
  subject:
    topic: Action research
  subject:
    geographic: Zambia
  subject:
    geographic: Zimbabwe
  classification: H62 .B36 2018
  classification: 001.4
  related item:
    title info:
      title: SAGE Research Methods
      part name: Cases
  identifier: 9781526442215
  identifier: 1526442213
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: SGPBL
    record creation date: 180104
    record change date: 20240923170043.7
    record identifier: in00005492416
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng