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Action Research, Vol. 4, No. 4, 419-437 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/1476750306070104

Participatory action research

First-person perspectives of a graduate student

Judy Burgess

University of Victoria, Canada

This article examines the tensions and challenges of a graduate student maneuvering the institutional hierarchies in her journey of participatory action research (PAR). By using a first-person action research framework, the researcher moves back and forth exploring the prose of others, and revealing her reflexive self-inquiry of underlying assumptions and beliefs. Iterations of insider-outsider positionality, drawing on and integrating paradigms, reconciling multiple roles and perspectives, exploring the complexity of power relations, and uncovering the promises and perils of PAR, moves the researcher toward a partnership with her community of inquiry. First-person action research unfolds a process of self-transformation.

Key Words: first-person action research • graduate student self-inquiry • participatory action research


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