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Participatory Action Research: From Within and Beyond Prison Bars

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Title
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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Author/creator
Fine, Michelle
Torre, María Elena
Boudin, Kathy
Bowen, Iris
Clark, Judith
Hylton, Donna
Martinez, Migdalia
Missy
Roberts, Rosemarie A.
Smart, Pamela
Upegui, Debra
Date
2003
In publication
Qualitative Research in Psychology: Expanding Perspectives in Methodology and Design
Editor
Camic, Paul M.
Rhodes, Jean E.
Yardley, Lucy
Pages
173-198
Publisher
American Psychological Association
Resource type
en Research/Scholarly Media
Resource status/form
en Published Text
Scholarship genre
en Methodological
Keywords
Action Research
Participation
Correctional Institutions
Experimental Methods
Prisoners
Qualitative Methods
Social Groups
Open access/full-text available
en Yes
Peer reviewed
en Yes
ISBN
978-1-55798-979-6
DOI
10.1037/10595-010
URL
Official Publisher's Webpage (American Psychological Association)
Full-text PDF Shared by Author (ResearchGate)
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
Cited in
Solidarity-Driven Codesign: Evolving Methodologies for Expanding Engagement with Familial & Community Expertise
Place
Washington, DC, US
Item sets
Handbook Chapter 16 Citations

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