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dc.contributor.authorWood, Lesley
dc.contributor.authorMcAteer, Mary
dc.date.accessioned2018-01-10T22:59:13Z
dc.date.available2018-01-10T22:59:13Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.identifier.issn0741-7136
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/0741713617706541
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/360728
dc.description.abstractWhen academics, who occupy a traditional position of power and privilege, engage with community members whose thinking, attitudes, and responses have been shaped by ongoing sociohistorical oppression and disadvantage, democratic participation is not easy to attain. Yet, unless community members feel able to participate freely, the valuable local knowledge they bring to the project will be lost and the learning will again be based on theories that may have little relevance for them. We explain how power relations can be leveled through the utilization of specific strategies within a participatory action research design. Seven community members and five teachers collaborated to develop a program that the community members would later use to educate parents about how to better support their children academically. Informed by a qualitative analysis of visual and textual data generated in several working sessions for this project, findings indicate that, while the flattening of power relations is an ongoing and complex task, specific strategies can be used to “level the playing fields” and negotiate the intricacies of power, privilege, and participation.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherSage Publications
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom251
dc.relation.ispartofpageto265
dc.relation.ispartofissue4
dc.relation.ispartofjournalAdult Education Quarterly
dc.relation.ispartofvolume67
dc.subject.fieldofresearchEducation systems
dc.subject.fieldofresearchEducation systems not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3903
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode390399
dc.titleLevelling the Playing Fields in PAR: The Intricacies of Power, Privilege, and Participation in a University–Community–School Partnership
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
dc.description.versionAccepted Manuscript (AM)
gro.facultyArts, Education & Law Group, Griffith Institute for Educational Research
gro.rights.copyrightWood, McAteer, Levelling the Playing Fields in PAR: The Intricacies of Power, Privilege, and Participation in a University–Community–School Partnership, Adult Education Quarterly, 67(4)251-265,2017. Copyright 2017 The Authors. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications.
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gro.griffith.authorWood, Lesley


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