Participatory research and its compatibility to school work

Title: Participatory research and its compatibility to school work
Creator: van Rooyen, C. A. J.; Gray, M. M. A.
Relation: The Social Work Practitioner-Researcher Vol. 8, Issue 2, p. 87-88
Publisher: University of Johannesburg
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 1995
Description: Participatory research is receiving increasing attention within the broad social science research context. Although there is not a great deal of clarity in the literature regarding what is meant by the term "participatory research", it is essentially a collective term used to describe certain types of research approaches. It has been described as a "methodology for an alternate system of knowledge production" (Reason, 1994:329)rather than a specific research method or prescriptive process. Participative research methodology tends to suggest a compatibility with social work since it appears to reflect come of the fundamental processes and values of the social work profession. This paper aims to introduce the reader to some of the basic tenets of participatory research and to demonstrate its compatibility with social work processes
Subject: participatory research; social work
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/34782
Identifier: uon:3702
Identifier: ISSN:1011-2324
Language: eng
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