The Palgrave Handbook on Participatory Action Research with Children

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“This book offers a thoughtful and practical guide for scholars and researchers seeking to engage in participatory action research with children. Drawing on global examples, it illustrates how to build ethical partnerships, address power dynamics, and translate children’s perspectives into meaningful action. By combining conceptual depth with applied strategies, the volume strengthens the quality, credibility, and impact of research that positions children as genuine collaborators in knowledge creation and supports more responsive policy and practice.”
– Kimberley Daly, Project Manager, Accelerated College and Employability Skills (ACCESS) Academy, George Mason University, USA

The Palgrave Handbook on Participatory Action Research with Children seeks to explore the diverse approaches to participatory action research (PAR) with children across disciplines and in various settings and contexts from around the globe. As interest in participatory action research with children grows, there is a need for more literature detailing the processes and approaches across its various stages.

This Handbook offers insights from researchers across six continents coming from diverse academic and professional backgrounds at varying stages of their careers and experiences in conducting PAR with children. It focuses on the importance of children’s participation in research while taking into account their rights, diverse lived experiences and contexts, ethical considerations, power dynamics, social inequalities as well as acknowledging limitations and challenges. The chapters explore the possibilities of advancing methodologies and approaches to PAR with children, inclusive practices throughout the PAR process, relational and curricular impact of PAR with children, and the ethics, challenges and opportunities of conducting PAR with children in different settings with the support of or co-led by community-based organizations. This volume seeks to impress upon the reader that PAR with children can be empowering to everyone involved - adults and children - if done ethically, with adequate training and support, and with the active participation and involvement of children as researchers/co-researchers and co-creators of knowledge throughout the process.

Hala Mreiwed is a children's rights advocate, advisor, educator and researcher with over 20 years of experience in research, curriculum development and pedagogy, training and education, children's media and children's rights education. 

The Palgrave Handbook on Participatory Action Research with Children seeks to explore the diverse approaches to participatory action research (PAR) with children across disciplines and in various settings and contexts from around the globe. As interest in participatory action research with children grows, there is a need for more literature detailing the processes and approaches across its various stages.

The Handbook offers insights from researchers across six continents coming from diverse academic and professional backgrounds at varying stages of their careers and experiences in conducting PAR with children. It focuses on the importance of children’s participation in research while taking into account their rights, diverse lived experiences and contexts, ethical considerations, power dynamics, social inequalities as well as acknowledging limitations and challenges. The chapters explore the possibilities of advancing methodologies and approaches to PAR with children, inclusive practices throughout the PAR process, relational and curricular impact of PAR with children, and the ethics, challenges and opportunities of conducting PAR with children in different settings with the support of or co-led by community-based organizations. This volume seeks to impress upon the reader that PAR with children can be empowering to everyone involved - adults and children - if done ethically, with adequate training and support, and with the active participation and involvement of children as researchers/co-researchers and co-creators of knowledge throughout the process.

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“This book offers a thoughtful and practical guide for scholars and researchers seeking to engage in participatory action research with children. Drawing on global examples, it illustrates how to build ethical partnerships, address power dynamics, and translate children’s perspectives into meaningful action. By combining conceptual depth with applied strategies, the volume strengthens the quality, credibility, and impact of research that positions children as genuine collaborators in knowledge creation and supports more responsive policy and practice.” (Kimberley Daly, Ph.D., Project Manager, Accelerated College and Employability Skills (ACCESS) Academy, George Mason University, USA)

“In a field too often marked by tokenistic inclusion, The Palgrave Handbook on Participatory Action Research with Children sets a new standard. What distinguishes this volume is not simply its global scope, but its unflinching attention to the messiness of doing PAR honestly: the power dynamics, ethical tensions, and limitations that at times researchers do not always share. This is the handbook I wish had existed earlier in my career, and one I will return to again and again.” (Mina Min, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Learning, Teaching, and Curriculum, Reich College of Education, Appalachian State University, USA)

“The Palgrave Handbook on Participatory Action Research with Children is a beautiful edited collection that showcases how meaningful engagement of children as researchers can be a catalyst for social transformation. It brings together diverse perspectives and experiences from across six continents to critically explore methods, ethics, and power dynamics in participatory action research. The handbook is methodologically inspiring for child and adult researchers, practitioners, and educators seeking to establish relational and collaborative research with children.” (Laura H.V. Wright, Ph.D., Lecturer Childhood Studies, Moray House School of Education and Sport, University of Edinburgh, UK) 

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