Participatory action research, also known as PAR, is a procedure in which permits ordinary people represent researchers to examine important issues affecting their daily lives (Komla, Patterson, Whiteside, L. Baird & B. Baird, 2002). A study was conducted using the PAR method to encourage the members of Yarrabah Men’s Health Group to plan and assess their activities. The proposed research study illustrates certain characteristics of the PAR method. The first characteristic that indicates this is the training sessions. After the leaders were trained, they were responsible to hold additional training sessions for the rest of the people involved in the Men’s Group. These training sessions are allowing leaders and legitimate members of the
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The second characteristic that indicates the PAR method is when the men were asked to think about what it means to be a man playing a rightful role in the community. The men then created a list of things that their community believes in and things that their community does not believe in. This allows the participants to incorporate their own definition of a man’s rightful role in the community and to use that definition as a tool to guide them further into the research. The third characteristic that indicates the PAR method is when the men came together and brainstormed a list of their individual and groups strengths and weaknesses. Once they gathered a final list, the men reflected on the potential barriers that may be stopping them from taking their rightful place in society and how they can defeat these barriers. This allows the participants to reflect on potential limits of the study and what they can do to conquer the limits to make the …show more content…
The first example of this was when the men reflected on their individual and group strengths and weaknesses. This is giving back to the local community because the men are illustrating a desire to help the local community with their strengths. They are also willing to evaluate their weaknesses so they can help the local community even more than what just their strengths could do. The second example of contributing to the local community is when the men were asked to create a list of basic life skills that they thought they should know more about. The list included things like conflict resolution, gambling, mediation, personal income management, and more. This directly relates to giving back to the local community because once they know more about those basic life skills it will better the community. The third example of giving back to the local community was when the men expressed that they need to be able to obtain real jobs in order to take their rightful place in the local community. After this was expressed, there were workshops held to teach these men essential abilities they may need to obtain a job by themselves. This is giving back to the local community because a job is essential to contributing to their own families and to their community. Once they have the skills to obtain a job,
The second characteristic that indicates the PAR method is when the men were asked to think about what it means to be a man playing a rightful role in the community. The men then created a list of things that their community believes in and things that their community does not believe in. This allows the participants to incorporate their own definition of a man’s rightful role in the community and to use that definition as a tool to guide them further into the research. The third characteristic that indicates the PAR method is when the men came together and brainstormed a list of their individual and groups strengths and weaknesses. Once they gathered a final list, the men reflected on the potential barriers that may be stopping them from taking their rightful place in society and how they can defeat these barriers. This allows the participants to reflect on potential limits of the study and what they can do to conquer the limits to make the …show more content…
The first example of this was when the men reflected on their individual and group strengths and weaknesses. This is giving back to the local community because the men are illustrating a desire to help the local community with their strengths. They are also willing to evaluate their weaknesses so they can help the local community even more than what just their strengths could do. The second example of contributing to the local community is when the men were asked to create a list of basic life skills that they thought they should know more about. The list included things like conflict resolution, gambling, mediation, personal income management, and more. This directly relates to giving back to the local community because once they know more about those basic life skills it will better the community. The third example of giving back to the local community was when the men expressed that they need to be able to obtain real jobs in order to take their rightful place in the local community. After this was expressed, there were workshops held to teach these men essential abilities they may need to obtain a job by themselves. This is giving back to the local community because a job is essential to contributing to their own families and to their community. Once they have the skills to obtain a job,