An exploration of factors which may influence how teachers perceive participatory action research tools being employed in schools

作者：Heyman Anna^*

来源：International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2011, 14(5): 369-378.

DOI：10.1080/13645579.2011.554226

• participatory research
• research processes
• children

This article draws on a lead researcher's observations about participatory research collaboration within a qualitative research project involving teachers, pupils and members of the communities surrounding schools. It presents a practical account of research processes aimed at uncovering to how pupils, teachers and community members in economically and socially disadvantaged neighbourhoods perceived their own roles in relation to creative activity with groups of children, who had been identified by their schools as being in need of help to engage in learning. The activities were led by artists who would not normally be involved in schools. Social constructionist frameworks for evaluation are combined with the literature on participatory appraisal, in order to suggest a politically sensitive course of action by which practitioners and peer interviewers could be involved more usefully in the future, through direct collaboration on the planning tasks to reveal rarely articulated pupil attitudes.

• 出版日期2011