Engaging Youth in Participatory Research and Evaluation

Engaging youth in participatory research and evaluation.

Although participatory research has been applied by a wide range of disciplines, the engagement of youth as partners in research and evaluation efforts is relatively new. The positive youth development movement has influenced scholars and practitioners to include youth as partners in the design and implementation of research involving issues that affect their lives. Engaging youth in research a...

Engaging Youth in Food Environments Research: The Role of Participation

Engaging youth through photovoice.

The photovoice process aims to use photographic images taken by persons with little money, power, or status to enhance community needs assessments, empower participants, and induce change by informing policy makers of community assets and deficits. This article describes a youth photovoice project implemented in an after-school program that attempted to adapt the photovoice method to youth part...

Youth researching youth: benefits, limitations and ethical considerations within a participatory research process

OBJECTIVES To examine the benefits, limitations and ethical issues associated with conducting participatory research on tobacco use using youth to research other youth. STUDY DESIGN Community-based participatory research. METHODS Research on tobacco use was conducted with students in the K'àlemì Dene School and Kaw Tay Whee School in the Northwest Territories, Canada, using PhotoVoice. The ...

Youth ReACT for Social Change: a method for youth participatory action research.

Although participatory action research has become an increasingly popular method with youth, involving them in problem identification, analysis, intervention, and/or feedback, few PAR projects tend to involve youth in all of these phases-particularly the data analysis phase. Yet involvement in the data analysis phase of a research effort can help to promote critical awareness of the targeted is...