Methodology<\/b><\/p>\n
Research methodologies refer to how you will conduct your research. There are lots of different kinds of research methodologies. Each one sets out the pathway for conducting your research. YPAR is a methodology and while there are different ways to conduct YPAR, the basic principles include youth working collaboratively with a community to research an issue with a view to making change through cycles of action and reflection.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Participants and Participation<\/b><\/p>\n In YPAR your participants and your team are critical. They will be involved in each step of your research. Your participants will be drawn from your community however you define this. One way to understand the most relevant participants to involve is to consider a child rights ecology (drawn from IICRD, see below). This helps to identify the different people involved in a child or young person\u2019s life. In this framework the child or young person in the center, surrounded by circles or ripples, with the family, community, environment, civil society, government and non-government organizations, and more generally cultural, social, spiritual, political, or economic systems on the outside of the circle. Core children\u2019s rights of participation, protection, survival, and development support the whole system.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Reflection<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n Within this ecology, consider which groups of people are most helpful in answering your question or what groups of people are most important to work with to ask the right questions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n CHILD RIGHTS ECOLOGY<\/b><\/p>\n
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