Participatory Action Research: From Within and Beyond Prison Bars
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Participatory Action Research: From Within and Beyond Prison Bars
Abstract/Description
Participatory action research represents a stance within qualitative research methods--an epistemology that assumes knowledge is rooted in social relations and most powerful when produced collaboratively through action. With a long and global history, participatory action research (PAR) has typically been practiced within community-based social action projects with a commitment to understanding, documenting, or evaluating the impact that social programs, social problems, or social movements bear on individuals and communities. PAR draws on multiple methods, some quantitative and some qualitative, but at its core it articulates a recognition that knowledge is produced in collaboration and in action. With this chapter, the authors aim to accomplish four ends: to provide a cursory history of PAR; to introduce a PAR project the authors have undertaken in a women's prison in New York, documenting the impact of college on women in prison, the prison environment, and on the women's postrelease outcomes; to present findings and analysis; and, to articulate a set of reflection on their work as a PAR collective, the dilemmas of writing openly under surveillance.
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Date
Pages
173-198
Publisher
American Psychological Association
Resource type
Research/Scholarly Media
Resource status/form
Published Text
Scholarship genre
Methodological
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Open access/full-text available
Yes
Peer reviewed
Yes
ISBN
978-1-55798-979-6
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Citation
Fine, M., Torre, M. E., Boudin, K., Bowen, I., Clark, J., Hylton, D., Martinez, M., Missy, Roberts, R. A., Smart, P., & Upegui, D. (2003). Participatory Action Research: From Within and Beyond Prison Bars. In Qualitative Research in Psychology: Expanding Perspectives in Methodology and Design (pp. 173–198). American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/10595-010
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