SSH 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Paulo Freire
29 Apr 2016
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Par differs from conventional research in 3 ways: It focuses on research whose purpose is to enable action: par pays careful attention to power relationships, par contrasts with less dynamic approaches that remove data and information from their contexts. Par arose from feminist and postmodernist critiques. Influenced by activism of the 60s and 70s. Community-based participatory action research has much in common with the work of the brazilian political and educational theoretician and activist, paulo freire (1921-1997). People most affected by the issue or intervention under study. Academics with an interest in the issue or intervention in question. Health, human service, and public agency staff and volunteers. The community as the expert : can those in power relinquish power to community, how do those in power perceive expertise/validity, careful to continually frame debates as deficits. Researchers do not formulate hypotheses that can subsequently be tested.
