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Knowledge Development with Adolescents in a PAR Process
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Lind, Candace – Educational Action Research, 2008
An assumption that knowledge arises from research outcomes has been expanded in recent years to include the possibility that knowledge may also be created from the process of engaging in research. Action research (AR) is particularly well suited to such knowledge development. This article offers a brief overview of knowledge in AR as well as the…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Action Research, Adolescents, Participatory Research
The Ethics of Researching Those Who Are Close to You: The Case of the Abandoned ADD Project
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Puchner, Laurel D.; Smith, Louis M. – Educational Action Research, 2008
This paper explores the ethical issues involved when researchers attempt to study participants who are personally close to them. It describes a case in which two researchers decided to study the experiences respectively of their son and grandson, both with ADD. They had barely initiated the study when ethical concerns led them to abandon the…
Descriptors: Action Research, Ethics, Researchers, Attention Deficit Disorders
Adolescent Development and School Science. Based on the Proceedings of an International Seminar Held at King's College Centre for Educational Studies (London, England, September 1987).
Adey, Philip, Ed.; And Others – 1989
This book contains the proceedings of a seminar that investigated the impact of cognitive and social development on the teaching of science in secondary schools, and the possible ways in which the science curriculum could be a context in which adolescents' development could be positively influenced. Six plenary papers were presented: (1) "Research…
Descriptors: Action Research, Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Cognitive Development