[Commpsych] FW: [SCRA-W] AJCP special issue open call: Children as protagonists

[Heather Gridley]

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Open Call!

American Journal of Community Psychology Call for papers Special issue:
Children as protagonists: Participatory action research in collaboration
with children.
Abstract due date: August 6, 2007

Participatory action research is a methodology that is growing in its
use in social science and education research. PAR is a theoretical
standpoint and collaborative methodology that is designed to ensure that
those who are affected by the research project have a voice in that
project. Cycles of a PAR project may include participants being engaged
in any or all of the following:
helping to formulate the problem definition, assessing the problem,
determining an intervention, implementing the intervention, and
assessing the intervention. Multiple methods are often used with PAR,
including surveys, focus groups, interviews, photovoice, and
observations. Although more articles are being published using a PAR
conceptualization, few of these projects are conducted with younger
children serving as collaborators.

The purpose of this special issue is to bring together some of the best
empirical and theoretical articles dealing with PAR with children, and
to critically examine this process. In all cases, papers should deal
with at least one of the following issues:
individual and community mental and/or physical health; educational,
legal, or work environment processes, policies, and opportunities;
social welfare and social justice; studies of social problems;
evaluation of interventions; empowerment of marginal groups; collective
social action; or institutional and organizational change.

Possible topics include projects where children are involved as
collaborators in one or more of the following:
*	Determining the problem definition
*	Assessing the problem
*	Determining an intervention
*	Implementing an intervention
*	Assessing an intervention

Other possible topics include:
*	Ethical issues surrounding PAR with children
*	The role of the child in collaborative research given
cultural constructions of childhood
*	Theoretical and practical lessons learned in conducting PAR
with children
*	Political, social, and methodological implications of
conducting PAR with children

For all papers, children are defined as those who are of middle school
age or younger.

One page concept papers or abstracts are due August 6, 2007 and should
be sent to Regina Langhout at langhout at ucsc.edu or Elizabeth Thomas at
ethomas at uwb.edu. Authors invited to write papers will be notified by
September 3, 2007. Papers will be due December 31, 2007, must be in APA
format, and will undergo the peer review process.



--
Regina Day Langhout, PhD
University of California, Santa Cruz
Department of Psychology
1156 High Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
(831) 459-2535

"The concern of the social scientist should not be so much to explain
the world as to transform it."
			-Ignacio Martin Baro

"The assignment of pre-determined tasks for stakeholders is not
participation. Participation means deciding, acting, reflecting,
analyzing, interrupting, forming an opinion and being open to learn (and
teach) from anyone sharing knowledge. It is not a neat and
clean process."		-Maritza Montero