Breaking the Silence: Critical discussion of a youth participatory action research project
Duration: 13 mins
Publication Date: 27 Jan 2025
Next Review Date: 27 Jan 2028
DOI: 10.13056/acamh.13666
Description
In this Video Abstract, Jaspar Khawaja and Dr. Chris Bagley discuss their co-authored JCPP Advances paper ‘Breaking the Silence: Critical discussion of a youth participatory action research project’. This paper aims to inform practice for educational psychologists and other professionals who seek to facilitate youth participatory action research (YPAR) in schools. Youth participatory action research is founded on the assumption that young people are capable of being researchers who can co-create knowledge and act to change the world. It is a worldview as well as a research approach and can be initiated to co-produce knowledge, facilitate critical thinking, promote the evaluation of social systems and/or act against social oppression.
Learning Objectives
1. Critically review the youth participatory action research (YPAR) literature in relation to its origins, epistemological principles and implementation.
2. Illustrate and elucidate the implementation of YPAR principles using an example (The Breaking the Silence project).
3. Discuss the outcomes, challenges and implications of YPAR, both in relation to previous literature and Breaking the Silence project specifically.
