Between the Ideal and the Real
Using Ethnography as a Way of Extending Our Language of Change
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12733302 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M Nola (0000-0001-6928-7001, Anna Freud Centre, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 105-128 |
| Publication date | 2009-06-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Qualitative Research in Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1478-0887 • E-ISSN: 1478-0895 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14780880902901133 |
| OpenAlex | W1984672668 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 42 |
The following paper is a critical examination of participatory action research in practice. By looking at two different narratives of this methodology in practice the aim of the paper is to initiate a discussion around the ways in which we 1 1By “we,” I am referring to researchers and practitioners, that is, experts of action research. talk about participatory action research—our narratives of participatory action research—and how these forms of expression constrain our theorising of people, interaction, and change. The first narrative discussed follows the conventions of action research. I describe this narrative as a formal narrative that highlights the ideal dimensions of participatory action research. The second narrative follows ethnographic conventions. I describe this narrative as an informal narrative that highlights the real (or lived experience in the language of ethnography) dimensions of participatory action research. In comparing and contrasting the two narratives, I aim to demonstrate the narrative conventions that govern change experiences. I conclude by suggesting that on the one hand we need to maintain a tension between the ideal and the real but at the same time acknowledge that sometimes narrative conventions of the ideal are difficult to break away from
Action (physics · Citizen journalism · Epistemology · Ethnography · Ideal (ethics · Linguistics · Narrative · Narrative criticism · Narrative inquiry · Participatory action research · Political science · Sociology · Anthropology · Children's Rights and Participation · Community Health and Development · Law · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Philosophy
Writing Culture
Letting Them Die
Structuralism and Semiotics
Knowledge in Context
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
Tales of the Field
Disintegrating Qualitative Research
Marienthal
Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes
Ethnography
Visual Illness Narratives of Asthma
The Politics and Practice of Empowerment Evaluation and Social Interventions
Narrative research with audiovisual data
Showing and telling asthma
Bridging Theory and Practice
Telling stories and the practice of collaboration
Social Theory for Action
Community Narratives
Narrating Survival and Change in Guatemala and South Africa
Terms of empowerment/exemplars of prevention
Flint Photovoice
Constructing Meaning About Violence, School, and Community
Action Research and Minority Problems
Action research
The Social Engagement of Social Science
The Interpretation of Cultures
Introduction to action research
The anti-politics machine
The practice of everyday life
Talking about machines
Readings in Social Psychology
Health Literacy via Media Literacy
Children as Citizens
Defiant Images
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,07 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2011 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |