TY - JOUR
T1 - Participatory action research (PAR) as democratic disruption
T2 - new public management and educational research in schools and universities
AU - Anderson, Gary
PY - 2017/5/28
Y1 - 2017/5/28
N2 - Pro-market and business approaches to management in the public sector (new public management–NPM) have created an audit culture in schools driven by top-down, high stakes accountability, and the fetishization of data. Within this context, authentic, qualitative, and democratic forms of inquiry, both in universities and schools, become easily co-opted. I argue in this article that the use of a community-based, participatory action research (PAR) stance has the potential to disrupt NPM and open up authentic and democratic spaces in which to engage in inquiry. The goal of democratization through a PAR stance is not an attempt to return to a pre-data driven past nor to make current neoliberal reforms more palatable, but rather to create more horizontal relationships among professionals, colleges of education, public schools, and low-income communities.
AB - Pro-market and business approaches to management in the public sector (new public management–NPM) have created an audit culture in schools driven by top-down, high stakes accountability, and the fetishization of data. Within this context, authentic, qualitative, and democratic forms of inquiry, both in universities and schools, become easily co-opted. I argue in this article that the use of a community-based, participatory action research (PAR) stance has the potential to disrupt NPM and open up authentic and democratic spaces in which to engage in inquiry. The goal of democratization through a PAR stance is not an attempt to return to a pre-data driven past nor to make current neoliberal reforms more palatable, but rather to create more horizontal relationships among professionals, colleges of education, public schools, and low-income communities.
KW - Neoliberal
KW - action research
KW - new public management
KW - participatory action research
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U2 - 10.1080/09518398.2017.1303211
DO - 10.1080/09518398.2017.1303211
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85017327353
SN - 0951-8398
VL - 30
SP - 432
EP - 449
JO - International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education
JF - International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education
IS - 5
ER -