LEAPing into Youth Work: PAtR in a Cultural Profession

摘要: This chapter provides an example of Gregory’s critical engagement with action research approaches. It illustrates the way that power is always already present before you even enter space and can drive process. not presented here as a perfect but ‘best effort’ in given context one might use to better understand practice its complexities, tensions contradictions, both theory practice. Unfortunately, tendency exists some reported AR literature tell stories through compelling exemplars sentimentalise, romanticise or grossly oversimplify process outcomes. propensity for simplification exaggeration may be personal political reasons such presenting sanitised reports order win funding mobilise allies partisan rhetoric. However, danger this lead naive, mechanical, distorted erroneous understandings change promoted by PAtR.