Blog #9 Participatory Action Research

Participatory Action Research (PAR) is a way of researcher collecting information or resource for organizing the honor, centers, and how it can reflects the experiences of people's most directly affected by the problems and issues in our community.

Reasons why people do Participatory Action Research are because people use this research method to learn more about the community and environment they are living in. The research helps to gather all the information of the environment easily. We also can use this research to question the social issues that we have, such as racism, sexism, and d violence in the community.

The strength of PAR is it helps to bring or units together people who are dealing with the same problem. PAR also helps to raise awareness of problems, than creates a better environment for everyone. The weakness of PAR would be creating bias ideas toward the subject that is addressing. People have different view on things, but PAR is creating people to think there is only one solution or one true to a problem.

Five most interesting example of PAR I read about:
1. All the media and justice films on blog post #8
2. New York Times newspaper
3. Legalizing gay marriage
4. "The White Man's Burden"
5. Ted Talk films