Youth leading youth
A Palar approach to enabling action for sustainable social change
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21600807 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lesley Wood (0000-0002-9139-1507, COMBER, North-West University, South Africa, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 603-618 |
| Publication date | 2021-08-08 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Educational Action Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0965-0792 • E-ISSN: 1747-5074 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09650792.2020.1858913 |
| OpenAlex | W3113232239 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 30 |
This article demonstrates how community-based action research can be conducted in democratic and democratizing ways to enable young people to take action to improve their own circumstances. By means of a case study, I show how Participatory Action Learning and Action Research (PALAR) can enable sustainable learning and development. Findings reveal that the youth participants benefitted from their participation in the PALAR research project in terms of increasedself-esteem and sense of purpose, enhanced self-awareness, and improved communication and technical skills, all of which developed their capacity for contributing to their communities and exercising leadership. However, the process of action learning was challenging for both the youth participants of the community and the university research partner. The findings corroborate that action learning takes time to learn, but unless it becomes an integral part of the action research process, the ability of community participants to sustain change is compromised. These findings are significant for enabling research that contributes to social justice through enhancing individual and community capacity to be critically reflective action learners and action leaders
Action learning · Action research · Cooperative learning · Participatory action research · Pedagogy · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Teaching method · Computer Science · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Psychology · Youth Development and Social Support · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
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| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |