Giving Student Groups a Stronger Voice: Using Participatory Research and Action (PRA) to Initiate Change to a Curriculum

Autor/inn/en	O'Neill, Geraldine; McMahon, Sinead
Titel	Giving Student Groups a Stronger Voice: Using Participatory Research and Action (PRA) to Initiate Change to a Curriculum
Quelle	In: Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 49 (2012) 2, S.161-171 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1470-3297
DOI	10.1080/14703297.2012.677656
Schlagwörter	Feedback (Response); Curriculum Design; Participatory Research; Curriculum Development; Change Strategies; Educational Change; Action Research; Student Participation; Student Empowerment; Therapy; Physiology; Student Attitudes; Clinical Psychology; Research Methodology + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lehrplangestaltung; Forschungstätigkeit; Curriculum; Development; Curriculumentwicklung; Lehrplan; Entwicklung; Lösungsstrategie; Bildungsreform; Projektforschung; Schülermitarbeit; Schülermitwirkung; Studentische Mitbestimmung; Studienberechtigung; Therapie; Physiologie; Schülerverhalten; Klinische Psychologie; Research method; Forschungsmethode
Abstract	Traditional student feedback mechanisms have been criticised for being teacher-centred in design and, in particular, for their absence of transparent follow-up actions. In contrast, this study describes the process and the evaluation of a participatory research and action (PRA) approach used in an undergraduate physiotherapy degree. This approach aimed to give students a stronger voice in order to identify the issues they felt were most important and to involve them in the subsequent actions to change or influence their curriculum. Using group consensus, key areas were identified by the students using a variety of PRA techniques, solutions were recommended and some actions were implemented. Both students and staff maintained that the process had gone some way to empowering students and had begun a ripple effect in relation to student involvement in ongoing curriculum design and debate. (Contains 2 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10