Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA.
Am J Community Psychol. 2010 Sep;46(1-2):67-83. doi: 10.1007/s10464-010-9316-y.
Although participatory action research has become an increasingly popular method with youth, involving them in problem identification, analysis, intervention, and/or feedback, few PAR projects tend to involve youth in all of these phases-particularly the data analysis phase. Yet involvement in the data analysis phase of a research effort can help to promote critical awareness of the targeted issues, potentially increasing the effectiveness of subsequent PAR stages. In addition, although many YPAR projects aim to promote the critical consciousness of their youth participants, some projects struggle to promote this awareness, often because the methods used are not well matched to the developmental needs of their participants. In this paper we present the ReACT Method, a PAR approach specifically designed to promote local knowledge production and critical consciousness by engaging youth in the problem identification, data analysis, and feedback stages of research. Given the lack of attention in the literature to the methods used for engaging youth in these processes, we provide detailed descriptions of the methods we developed to engage youth in problem identification and qualitative data analysis.
尽管参与式行动研究已经成为一种越来越受欢迎的方法,涉及到年轻人参与问题的识别、分析、干预和/或反馈,但很少有 PAR 项目倾向于让年轻人参与所有这些阶段——特别是数据分析阶段。然而,参与研究工作的数据分析阶段可以帮助提高对目标问题的批判性认识,从而有可能提高后续 PAR 阶段的效果。此外,尽管许多 YPAR 项目旨在促进青年参与者的批判性意识,但有些项目难以促进这种意识,这往往是因为所使用的方法与参与者的发展需求不匹配。在本文中,我们提出了 ReACT 方法,这是一种专门设计的 PAR 方法,通过让年轻人参与研究的问题识别、数据分析和反馈阶段,促进地方知识的产生和批判性意识。鉴于文献中对让年轻人参与这些过程所使用的方法缺乏关注,我们详细描述了我们开发的让年轻人参与问题识别和定性数据分析的方法。