 Facilitating youth participatory action research (YPAR): A scoping review of relational practice in U.S. Youth development & out-of-school time projectsAngie Malorni, Charles H. Lea, Katie Richards-Schuster and Michael S. Spencer Children and Youth Services Review, 2022, vol. 136, issue C Abstract: YPAR is increasingly used as a powerful tool for research and action but, its’ practice is often a ‘black box’, with the mechanisms in play absent or not described in detail. When methodological practice is made more explicit, it is illuminated that all too often, youth are not meaningfully integrated into many important aspects of the research. However, we know that relationships are central to the success of YPAR. As such we explore the research question of: ‘what are the relational practices in YPAR that can facilitate critical inquiry, reflection and action?’.We conducted a scoping review of 40 articles that discuss YPAR practice in youth development and out-of-school time spaces. Our results highlight a series of practices aimed at facilitating critical dialogue, sharing power and building a collective identity. These practices can help keep the YPAR practice aligned with its’ epistemological aims and support the practice of critical inquiry and reflection into action. Date: 2022 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:cysrev:v:136:y:2022:i:c:s0190740922000354 DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2022.106399 Access Statistics for this article Children and Youth Services Review is currently edited by Duncan Lindsey More articles in Children and Youth Services Review from Elsevier |
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