Participatory Action Research (PAR) has been widely viewed both as research and as a way of bringing about change. Can the process be viewed as a research design? is there some literature on this ?
Some studies have considered PAR as a research design
- Rannestad, O. T., Maerere, A. P., Torp, T., & May-Guri, S. (2013). A farmer participatory research approach to assess the effectiveness of field sanitation and regular trapping on banana weevil populations. Fruits, 68(2), 83-93. DOI:10.1051/fruits/2012054www.fruits-journal.org.
Dear Joseph. Certainly, PAR is much more than a kind of research and a way to make changes within actors. PAR is itself a design research as long as the process is peasant-oriented. Accordingly their participation in each stage of the research is crucial. In deed, it should co-design step by step with peasants including both iterative and feedback process permanently.
Good luck!
Santiago Peredo Parada, thank you for that informative input.
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