How to build a youth participatory action research collective /
Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) is an approach to research that engages young people in research as full-fledged co-researchers with adult practitioners and researchers. In YPAR, young people determine research questions and goals, collect data, analyze data, and share findings, leading a...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
SAGE Publications Ltd,
2024.
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| Series: | SAGE Research methods: diversifying and decolonizing research.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) is an approach to research that engages young people in research as full-fledged co-researchers with adult practitioners and researchers. In YPAR, young people determine research questions and goals, collect data, analyze data, and share findings, leading all decisions related to each step of the research process. YPAR is often conducted within school settings, where many young people spend most of their time each day, or it can be done outside of school times or contexts and at locations convenient to those participating. One of the main goals of YPAR is to honor the experiences of youth as expertise, valuing young people as legitimate knowledge producers in unique positions to communicate their knowledge to those in power as they seek social change. The purpose of this guide is to provide concrete suggestions for how adult researchers may build a YPAR collective with youth at the center. We draw on four years of experience with a YPAR collective, Courageous Conversations, based in Northern Virginia, USA, to discuss how to attract youth to research, how to work effectively within institutions as well as outside of them, how to build meaningful research relationships both among youth researchers and also between youth and adult researchers, and how to engage ethically in YPAR. The guide concludes with recommendations about both the possibilities and potential pitfalls of YPAR. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| ISBN: | 9781529690750 1529690757 |