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IPRH Participatory Action Research Reading Group
New this fall is an interdisciplinary reading group exploring Participatory Action Research (PAR). PAR is a collaborative research methodology that is often utilized to address social justice issues. This official Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH) reading group was formed by ESLARP graduate students who recognized a need to better understand PAR as a methodology used by academic researchers and community members. The reading group will provide a solid foundation in the theory and practice of PAR, beginning with Paulo Freire and continuing through to current action research projects and ideas. In addition, the reading group can provide a space and time for reflection from the different action researchers operating around campus. Members of the PAR reading group will also explore and critique related approaches to community engagement, such as service-learning, community-university partnerships, community development, participatory design, and others. Topics will emerge from the reading group’s collective interests.
This reading group will be meeting throughout the Fall 2008 semester once a month to discuss readings and their implications for the projects and theoretical ideas of the participants. Most readings will be distributed in PDF format. We welcome community members, University students, faculty, and staff to participate in this reading group.
Contacts:
Abbilyn Harmon and Sang Lee
Dates and Location of PAR Reading Group Meetings:
Our first meeting:
Tuesday, September 2nd, 5:30pm
111 Temple Buell Hall (Conference Room Next Door)
We will determine our regular meeting time and first readings at this meeting.
Some Foundational and Introductory Readings:
- Freire, P. (1970). A pedagogy of the oppressed. New York: Seabury Press.
- Friedmann, J. (1987). Planning in the public domain. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
- Park, P., Brydon-Miller, M., Hall, T., & Jackson, T. (Eds.). (1993). Voices of change: Participatory research in the United States and Canada. Westport, CT: Bergin & Garvey.
- Stoecker, R. (1999). "Are academics irrelevant? Rules for scholars in participatory research". American Behavioral Scientist, 42(5), 840–854.
- Lennie, J. (1999). "Deconstructing gendered power relations in participatory planning: Towards an empowering feminist framework of participation and action". Women’s Studies International Forum, 22(1), 97–122.
- McTaggart, R. (1994). "Participatory action research: Issues in theory and practice". Educational Action Research, 2, 313–337.
- Selener, D. (1992). Participatory Action Research and Social Change. Unpublished
- doctoral dissertation. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
- Gaventa, J. (1988). "Participatory research in North America". Convergence, 21(2), 19–28.
- Greenwood, K. & Levin, J. (1998). Introduction to action research. San Francisco: Sage.
- Cherry, D. J., & Sheffer, J. (2005). "Addressing barriers to university-community collaboration: Organizing by experts or organizing the experts?". Journal of Community Practice, 12 (3-4), 219-233.
- Arnstein, S. R. (1969). "A ladder of citizen participation". Journal of the American Institute of Planners, 35 (4), 216–224.
Last updated by sang on 8/19/2008
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