Toward equity: Power, cultural hegemony, and organizations
Behind Action Research for Transformations (ART) and the Action Research Journal’s seven quality choice points nestle both a plea and demand for equity. If equity is about resources made accessible to or concretely claimed by structurally marginalized group—so they may achieve outcomes akin to privileged groups which get such resources as a matter of course—three […]
Read More...Participatory action research: Promoting partnership between a social work team and mothers of hemophiliac children
This article focuses on a participatory action research project as a process for improving social work practice and empowering mothers with hemophiliac children. Four stages of the action research are presented in this study. The research played a critical consciousness-raising and capacity-building role facilitating the mothers’ transformation from passive victims to active subjects. In addition, […]
Read More...Building a mutual-help community: Young social work teachers’ self-rescue action
The higher education system has marginalized the young educators. Young educators in the field of social work are in a much worse situation. Research indicates that young social work educators are facing three types of significant challenges: lacking teaching experience and social support; lacking academic research skills and facing great pressure from getting paper published; […]
Read More...Reflections on ‘doing’ participatory data analysis with women experiencing long-term homelessness
This paper draws on the lessons learned from the [in]visible project, a community-based research partnership that aimed to learn more about the experiences of women, without children in their care, who experience chronic homelessness in Hamilton, Ontario. Through involving 70 women as participants, we used narrative and arts-based research methods to learn about the experiences […]
Read More...Doing feminist participatory action research for disrupting traditional gender discourses with Indonesian Muslim kindergarten teachers
The purpose of this article is to explore the authors’ and the co-authors’ reflexivity in feminist participatory action research, conducted in three kindergartens in Indonesia, aiming to disrupt traditional gender discourses in early childhood education settings. Kindergarten is one of the most gendered spaces that perpetuate the binary between femininities and masculinities. This research takes […]
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