Exploring the boundaries of 'good' Participatory Action Research in times of increasing popularity: dealing with constraints in local policy for digital inclusion
Exploring the boundaries of 'good' Participatory Action Research in times of increasing popularity: dealing with constraints in local policy for digital inclusion
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DOI：
10.1080/09650792.2020.1743733
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发表时间：
2020-03-23
影响因子：
1.2
通讯作者：
Abma, Tineke A.
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作者：
Dedding, Christine;Goedhart, Nicole S.;Abma, Tineke A.
参与式行动研究（PAR）的流行增加了象征性的风险，模糊了可能被认为是“好的”PAR的界限。当阿姆斯特丹市邀请我们在时间和预算的严格限制下，与阿姆斯特丹的弱势公民进行关于数字不平等的PAR时，这成为了一个紧迫的问题。我们决定接受挑战，为市民提供一个分享需求的机会。本文旨在提高PAR过程复杂现实的透明度，以帮助新的研究人员了解PAR在现实生活中的挑战，并开启关于PAR质量和边界的讨论。尽管我们设法在这个项目中实施了PAR的一些核心伦理原则，但其中两个尤其受到压力：民主参与和集体行动。这些损害了集体学习，可能无意中助长了对人的能力的刻板印象。尽管如此，这个小规模的地方性研究确实成功地掀起了变革的涟漪。
The popularity of Participatory Action Research (PAR) increases the risk of tokenism and blurring the boundaries of what might be considered 'good' PAR. This became a pressing issue when we were invited by the City of Amsterdam to conduct PAR on digital inequality with vulnerable citizens in Amsterdam, within serious constraints of time and budget. We decided to take up the challenge to offer citizens an opportunity to share their needs. This paper aims to increase the transparency of the complex reality of a PAR process in order to help new researchers learn about the challenges of PAR in real-life situations, and to open up the discussion on the quality and boundaries of PAR. Though we managed to implement some core ethical principles of PAR in this project, two were particularly under pressure: democratic participation and collective action. These jeopardized collective learning and might unintentionally feed stereotypes regarding people's capabilities. Nevertheless, this small and local study did manage to create ripples for change.