Examine and explain the notion of ‘power differentials” between the main researcher and the co-researchers of the case.
Reflection of the main researcher in a Participatory action research
I assembled a research team being and presented what I perceived as my dilemma to the group, after all it was our project, Ashley, Christine, Jeunesse, and Travis individually and collectively possessed a wealth of knowledge about our project and multidisciplinary literature on oppression. I was confident that we would work it out as a team. I was so naıve! While the youth researchers were empowered in their role as researchers (when they interviewed parent organizers) they were very uncomfortable with me positioning myself as a learner and with being the participants of the second phase of the project later on. I was supposed to know what to do next because I was the academic, the more knowledgeable research team member. My efforts to maintain transparency, shared decision making, interpretation, and analysis in keeping with the principles of PAR were rejected.
- Examine and explain the notion of ‘power differentials” between the main researcher and the co-researchers of the case.
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