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
- 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
- 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
- Place
- Washington, DC, US
- Item sets
- Handbook Chapter 16 Citations
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