TY - JOUR
T1 - Insiders doing PAR with youth in their schools
T2 - negotiating professional boundaries and healing justice
AU - Herr, Kathryn
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2017/5/28
Y1 - 2017/5/28
N2 - In this essay, I explore my experiences as a practitioner researcher collaborating with my students on a participatory action research project aimed at institutional change. I take up two areas: blurring the boundaries of professionalism in working toward authentic collaborations with students, and secondly, incorporating perspectives of ‘healing justice’ into school-based youth participatory action research (YPAR). I first provide a framework by delineating the emancipatory aims of YPAR and how these may be at odds with much of the research teachers/practitioners currently conduct in their school sites. While ultimately acknowledging the risks in taking up emancipatory change efforts as insiders, I make the case that there are also clear benefits to the process.
AB - In this essay, I explore my experiences as a practitioner researcher collaborating with my students on a participatory action research project aimed at institutional change. I take up two areas: blurring the boundaries of professionalism in working toward authentic collaborations with students, and secondly, incorporating perspectives of ‘healing justice’ into school-based youth participatory action research (YPAR). I first provide a framework by delineating the emancipatory aims of YPAR and how these may be at odds with much of the research teachers/practitioners currently conduct in their school sites. While ultimately acknowledging the risks in taking up emancipatory change efforts as insiders, I make the case that there are also clear benefits to the process.
KW - PAR
KW - YPAR
KW - practitioner research
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85017299389&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/09518398.2017.1303213
DO - 10.1080/09518398.2017.1303213
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85017299389
SN - 0951-8398
VL - 30
SP - 450
EP - 463
JO - International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education
JF - International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education
IS - 5
ER -