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PAR is an approach to research that values the significant knowledge people hold about their lives and experiences. PAR positions those most intimately impacted by research as leaders in shaping research questions, framing interpretations, and designing meaningful research products and actions.

Taking Freedom: Theorizing Audience, Products, and Provocation (An Excerpt)

On an approach to research that works with communities to address important issues they are facing, using "weapons of mass instruction" that help groups make decisions, work together, and mobilize.

Michelle Fine & María Elena Torre

Teoría de Audiencia, Productos y Provocación (Extracto)

Este artículo trata sobre un enfoque de la investigación que trabaja con las comunidades para abordar los problemas importantes que enfrentan, usando "armas de instrucción masiva" que ayudan a los grupos a tomar decisiones, trabajar juntos y movilizarse.

Michelle Fine & María Elena Torre

Education

Spending Time in Nature Produces Better Behaved Students

New research finds third-graders are more attentive after experiencing a class taught on the lawn.

Tom Jacobs

Education

Music Teachers Believe a Lot of Myths

New research from Germany suggests many are unclear regarding which claims about music and the brain have actually been confirmed.

Tom Jacobs

Education

Has Trump Killed Political Discourse in the Classroom?

Fearful of the potential for bitter debate around the president and his policies, school administrations around the country have resorted to shutting down student discourse.

Jaimie Seaton