The Future of Education

Edition 14

Accepted Abstracts

Youth Participatory Action Research – Project Inkla

Małgorzata Wójcik, University of Social Sciences and Humanities (Poland)

Abstract

Youth Participatory Action Research offers a framework for researchers committed to youth well-being, education change and school improvement. The benefits of engaging the perspectives of young people in research have served to challenge social exclusion, empower young people and build their capacity to transform their own lives and become partners in the building of more complete, equal and democratic, communities. There is not enough research on issues young people encounter in their everyday life from their own perspective. In order to secure that perspective, it is necessary for students and researchers to work together and carry on action research in the context of school, classroom and peer group.  Presented Youth Participatory Action Research – Inkla may serve as a good example and framework for providing secondary school students with help and guidance so they can investigate the issue of bullying at school and find ways of preventing and stopping it. The main goal of presented project was to help secondary school students explore intragroup relations in school classes and problems students may encounter as bullying or peer group exclusion. It was also intended to design practical methods to stop bullying and create supportive peer groups. A group of secondary school students became student researchers and conducted interviews in their school classes which resulted in including their peers and teachers in well planned and research-based collective action to prevent bullying and improve school life. Outcomes demonstrate that the student voice can support or change a school’s anti-bullying policy if the responsibility for bullying prevention is shared with students who are treated as agents of change. Complex process of building participative relationships in youth participatory action research is presented together with  suggestions and strategies for building effective and genuine cooperation.

Keywords: Action research, bullying prevention, students’ participation and engagement;

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