Examine and explain the notion of ‘power differentials” between the main researcher and the co-researchers of the case.

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Reflection of the main researcher in a Participatory action research

I assembled a research team being and presented what I perceived as my dilemma to the group, after all it was our project, Ashley, Christine, Jeunesse, and Travis individually and collectively possessed a wealth of knowledge about our project and multidisciplinary literature on oppression. I was confident that we would work it out as a team. I was so naıve! While the youth researchers were empowered in their role as researchers (when they interviewed parent organizers) they were very uncomfortable with me positioning myself as a learner and with being the participants of the second phase of the project later on. I was supposed to know what to do next because I was the academic, the more knowledgeable research team member. My efforts to maintain transparency, shared decision making, interpretation, and analysis in keeping with the principles of PAR were rejected.

  1. Examine and explain the notion of ‘power differentials” between the main researcher and the co-researchers of the case. 
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