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• Title:
  Challenges Faced by Social Pedagogy Academics in the Course of Participatory Action Research with Homeless People and Street Workers as Co-Researchers
• Creator:
  Granosik, Mariusz;
  Gulczyńska, Anita;
  Kostrzyńska, Małgorzata;
  Jarkiewicz, Anna
• Contributor:
  Granosik, Mariusz;
  Gulczyńska, Anita;
  Kostrzyńska, Małgorzata;
  Littlechild, Brian;
  Granosik, Mariusz - University of Łódź, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Social Pedagogy;
  Gulczyńska, Anita - University of Łódź, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Social Pedagogy;
  Kostrzyńska, Małgorzata - University of Łódź, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Social Pedagogy;
  Jarkiewicz, Anna - University of Łódź, Poland;
  Littlechild, Brian - University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
• Description:
  In taking the idea of participatory action research (PAR) seriously it seems necessary to change both power relation and epistemological perspectives. The basic research relation is perceived as bilateral, which means there are two or more subjects (sometimes collective) to be involved in- researcher and user/client- but most of interpretive research is focused on user perspective only. But there are more participants in the field who create social reality and produce interpretations “from the inside” (for example practitioners), and academic perspectives also plays their role in the process. So finally at least three viewpoints are needed to be recognized and scrutinized in participatory action research: academics, practitioners, and service users. Designing the research project titled: Onto-epistemologies of street social work with homeless people our initial idea was an interpretive assessment to be implemented in the field of such street working. We have realised that there are two quite different discourses (theoretical and practical) being developed during our meetings with practitioners, and no liaison work to be done. Homeless users’ perspectives being added a few months later made the reflexion more complicated. The main objective of this contribution is to share challenges that need to be faced by academics in the course of PAR co-produced with street workers and homeless service users. The focus is on the problem of defining homelessness, power negotiations, differences in conceptualisations of assessment, and the position of service users in the research. Because PAR is also recognised as a way to make the process of knowledge creation more democratic, some political dilemmas and limitations are being taken into consideration as well.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
• Date:
  2024.01.29;
  2019.12.30
• Type:
  Book chapter
• Language:
  English
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Relation:
  Granosik M., Gulczyńska A., Kostrzyńska M., Littlechild B. (red.), Participatory Social Work: Research, Practice, Education , Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, Jagiellonian University Press, Łódź–Kraków 2019;
• Identifier:
  Granosik M., Gulczyńska A., Kostrzyńska M., Jarkiewicz A., Challenges Faced by Social Pedagogy Academics in the Course of Participatory Action Research with Homeless People and Street Workers as Co-Researchers, [w:] Participatory Social Work: Research, Practice, Education , Granosik M., Gulczyńska A., Kostrzyńska M., Littlechild B. (red.), Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, Jagiellonian University Press, Łódź–Kraków 2019, s. 253-274, https://doi.org/10.18778/8142-348-9.16;
  978-83-8142-348-9;
  http://hdl.handle.net/11089/50184 ;
  978-83-8142-349-6;
  10.18778/8142-348-9.16
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
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• Type:
  text