PALAR as a methodology for community engagement by faculties of education

South African Journal of Education

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1-15

  Wood, Lesley ^a   Zuber Skerrit, Ortrun ^b  

^a NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Action learning; Action research; Community engagement; Higher education; Participatory research; School communities

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887872101     PISSN: 02560100     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15700/201412171322     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Australian Universities Community Engagement Alliance (AUCEA) 2008. Position Paper 2008-2010: Universities and Community Engagement. Available at http://admin.sun.ac.za/ci/resources/AUCEA_universities_CE.pdf. Accessed 12 September 2012.
2. Blackberry G 2013. Turning Teachers On (to ICT). Paper presented at ACEC ITs Time Conference, 2-5 October, Perth, Australia. Available at http://acec2012.acce.edu.au/turning-teachers-ict. Accessed 26 September 2013.
3. Brydon-Miller M, Greenwood D & Maguire P 2003. Why action research? Action Research, 1:9-28. Available at http://www.civitas.edu.pl/pub/nasza_uczelnia/projekty_badawcze/Taylor/Brydon-Miller.pdf. Accessed 26 September 2013.
4. Council on Higher Education (CHE) 2010. Community Engagement in South African Higher Education. Pretoria: Jacana Media. Available at http://www.che.ac.za/sites/default/files/publications/Kagisano_No_6_January2010.pdf. Accessed 26 September 2013.
5. Cruz NI & Giles DE 2000. Where's the community In service-learning research? Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, Fall:28-34. Available at http://nfjcl.depaul.edu/Resources/Cruz-Giles-Wheres%20the%20Community%20in%20Service%20Learning%20Cruz.pdf. Accessed 26 September 2013.
6. De Lange N, Mnisi T, Mitchell C & Park EG 2010. Giving life to data: university- community partnerships in addressing HIV and AIDS through building digital archives. E-Learning and Digital Media, 7:160-171. Available at http://www.wwwords.co.uk/pdf/validate.asp?j=elea&vol=7&issue=2&year=2010&arti cle=4_de_Lange_ELEA_7_2_web. Accessed 12 February 2012.
7. Dick B 2004. Action research literature: themes and trends. Action Research, 2:425-444. doi: 10.1177/1476750304047985
8. Ferreira R, Ebersöhn L & Mbongwe B 2013. Power-sharing partnerships: teachers' experiences of participatory methodology. Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education and Action (in press).
9. Fletcher M 2005. Action learning/action research: a teacher-centred approach for the self-improving school. Literacy Learning: Middle Years, 13:16-24.
10. Gauthamadas U 2005. Psychosocial Engineering as a means of re-establishing lives in the Tsunami affected community. Presentation at the Asia Pacific Congress on Disaster Management, Channaim, April 6.
11. HIV & AIDS Education Community of Practice 2011. Using a different lens for HIV and AIDS Education. Port Elizabeth: HIV and AIDS Education Research Chair, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University. Available at http://heaids.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/using-a-different-lens.pdf. Accessed 26 September 2013.
12. Jordan S 2008. Participatory action research. In LM Given (ed.). The SAGE Encyclopedia of Qualitative Research Methods. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications.
13. Kearney J, Wood L & Zuber-Skerrit O 2013. University-community partnerships through Participatory Action Learning and Action Research (PALAR). Gateways: International Journal of Community Research and Engagement (in press).
14. Koutselini M 2008. Participatory teacher development at schools: processes and issues. Action Research, 6:29-48. doi: 10.1177/1476750307083718
15. Lazarus J, Erasmus M, Hendricks D, Nduna J & Slamat J 2008. Embedding community engagement in South African higher education. Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 3:57-83. doi: 10.1177/1746197907086719
16. McIntyre A 2008. Participatory action research. Los Angelos: SAGE Publications.
17. Minkler M 2005. Community-based research partnerships: challenges and opportunities. Journal of Urban Health: Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine, 82:3-12. doi: 10.1093/jurban/jti034
18. Minkler M & Wallerstein N (eds) 2003. Community-Based Participatory Research for Health. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
19. Pegg J, Reading C & Williams M 2007. Partnerships in ICT learning study. Canberra, Australia: Department of Science, Education and Training. Available at http://www.une.edu.au/simerr/pages/projects/26ictpartnershipsreportfull.pdf. Accessed 15 March 2013.
20. Piggot-Irvine E 2012. Creating authentic collaboration: A central feature of effectiveness. In O Zuber-Skerrit (ed.). Action Research for Sustainable Development in a Turbulent World. Bingley, UK: Emerald Books.
21. Polanyi M 1958. Personal knowledge: towards a post-critical philosophy. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
22. Reason P & Bradbury H 2008. Handbook of Action Research. Participative Inquiry and practice (2nd ed). London: SAGE Publications.
23. Slamat J 2010. Community engagement as scholarship: a response to Hall. In South African Council on Higher Education (CHE). Community engagement in South African Higher Education. Kagisano, 6:104-114. Available at http://www.che.ac.za/sites/default/files/publications/Kagisano_No_6_January2010.pdf. Accessed 30 September 2013.
24. Smith SE, Willms DG & Johnson NA (eds) 1997. Nurtured by Knowledge: learning to do participatory action research. New York: The Apex Press.
25. Somekh B 2008. Action Research. In LM Given (ed.). The SAGE Encyclopedia of Qualitative Research Methods (Vol. 1). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications.
26. Watson G 2001. Models of information technology teacher professional development that engage with teachers' hearts and minds. Journal of Information Technology for Teacher Education, 10:179-190. doi: 10.1080/14759390100200110
27. Wood L 2012. How youth picture gender injustice: building skills for HIV prevention through a participatory, arts-based approach. South African Journal of Education, 32:349-366. Available at http://www.sajournalofeducation.co.za/index.php/saje/article/view/667. Accessed 30 September 2013.
28. Wood LA 2009. What kind of respect is this? Shifting the mindset of teachers regarding cultural perspectives on HIV & AIDS. Action Research, 7:405-422. doi: 10.1177/1476750309340948
29. Wood L & Govender B 2013.You learn from going through the process': the perceptions of South African school leaders about action research. Action Research, 11:176-193. doi: 10.1177/1476750313479411
30. Wood LA, Morar R & Mostert L 2007. From rhetoric to reality: the role of Living Theory action research. Education as Change, 11:67-80. doi: 10.1080/16823200709487166
31. Zuber-Skerritt O 2011. Action Leadership: towards a participatory paradigm. London: Springer.
32. Zuber-Skerritt O 2012. Introduction. In O Zuber-Skerrit (ed.). Action Research for Sustainable Development in a Turbulent World. Bingley, UK: Emerald Bo.ks.