CHYS 2P51 Final: exam prep.docx

• School: Brock University
• Department: Child and Youth Studies
• Course: CHYS 2P51
• Professor: Lauren Mc Namara

Document Summary

Critical ethnography just empowers individuals to show what could be. Critical ethnography just suggests things for change where as action research is constantly revising and reviewing plans to make it the most effective. What makes action research unique from other types of research. It uses the people in the study as contributors to the research so they have a voice and a perspective. Action research is like a partnership between the researchers and stakeholders/community members. The outcome of the research becomes intertwined within the project. The approach has been described to be a highly reflective, experiential, and participatory mode of research in which all individuals involved in the study, researcher and subjects alike, are deliberate and contributing actors in the research enterprise (178-179) Action research represents a viable, practical strategy for social science studies requiring systematic, organized, and reflective investigation (p. 178)