Researching in Community: Intergenerational Participatory Action Research for Educational Justice

Harvard HGSE

Critical participatory action research (CPAR) is a form of critical, collective inquiry that provides youth and adults with opportunities to identify concerns that impact their lives, to gather and analyze data about these issues, and to take collective action to create more just communities. Described by Michele Fine & Maria Torre (2019) as, “research rooted in politics, power, participation, and a deep appreciation of knowledge, created in conditions of oppression and mobilized for…