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    The document summarizes a study that used Participatory Action Research (PAR) to understand a community in the Philippines' practical knowledge of disaster preparedness and reconstruction. PAR is a method that involves community members as equal collaborators in the research process. The researchers conducted a single PAR session with community members to understand their experiences and gather shared solutions. They found that PAR challenged preconceptions, elevated community voices, and generated practical knowledge that could improve disaster response.

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    Pante, Bernadeth Laurelyn, Allison Matoci os, Alexandra Abril, and Bounteous Servito. 2013.

    “Participatory Action Research in Disaster Preparedness and Community Reconstruction.”


    Philippine Sociological Review 61(2):419442.

    Participatory Action Research in Disaster Preparedness and Community Reconstruction

    INTRODUCTION
    Sociology today is accused of developing sophisticated theory and method at the expense of generating
    practical knowledge useful to society (Pante et al 2013:419). Michael Burawoy calls for the practice of
    "public sociology" which opens up the dialogue on issues relevant to the public (419).
    One of the greatest challenges of sociology today is to generate practical solutions to society's shared
    problems (421).
    Sociology was "stimulated by moral commitment" to save modernity from anomie, egoism, and
    alienation (Burawoy, Gamson, Pfohl, Vaughan, Derber, and Schor 2004:103).
    - In sociology's origin is the desire to make the modern world a more just and equal society (422).
    - In Division of Labor in Society, Durkheim argues: “What we propose to study is above all reality,
    it does not follow that we should give up the idea of improving it” ((Durkheim [1893] 1987:xxv).
    - In Marx's view, the point of philosophy is to change the world in various ways to make it better
    (Marx [1845] 1969).
    While attempts to make sociology more socially important, the discipline still has some habits to
    change (422).
    - Sociologists have been accused of putting the research agenda of the discipline ahead of
    generating reflexive knowledge (422).
    - Translating sociology's promise into practice entails a reconsideration of research methods used
    to generate knowledge relevant to the public (422-423).

    • The researchers of this paper conducted research on disaster preparedness in a community in San
    Mateo, Rizal using Participatory Action Research (PAR), a "participatory and democratic" method of
    sociological inquiry.
    • Participatory Action Research (PAR), according to the researchers, is one method for promoting public
    sociology.

    PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH


    • PAR is a “participatory, democratic process concerned with developing practical knowing” (Reason
    and Bradbury 2001:1).
    • It provides a venue for participants and researchers to be co-equal collaborators in the research process.
    It is inclusive in the sense that the people most affected by the study are also the people involved in
    conducting research (423).
    • If sociology's main aim is to enhance social practice, then research should be oriented towards
    providing support to people "to do things in ways that will fit their own cultural context" (Brydon-
    Miller, Greenwood, and Maguire 2003:21).
    • PAR encourages communities to build confidence to reassert their claims and legitimacy of their
    practical knowledge (423).
    • One outcome of PAR's dialogic process is the intersection between theory and practice. Through
    dialogue, participants gain a sense of their shared purpose and think about solutions that can address
    pressing issues (424).
    • PAR emphasizes the increasing acceptance of a participatory worldview in our time, where methods are
    used to generate knowledge that is "democratic, equitable, liberating, life-enhancing and explicitly
    political" (Stringer 1999:29).

    PAR in Disaster Preparedness and Community Reconstruction

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    • The group decided that it was time to undertake a participatory assessment of the rehabilitation and
    preparedness programs in affected communities (427).
    • Par is an appropriate method to bring out communities' agency, map their creative responses to
    disasters. It contextualizes participants' experiences and opinions in a group setting (427).

    OBJECTIVES (428)
    1. The researchers wanted to draw out the community’s practical knowledge about disaster
    preparedness and responses.
    2. They wanted to take part in thinking about future action to improve disaster response in a
    particular community.
    3. They aimed to use this activity as an opportunity to disseminate their findings to the public as
    practical knowledge.
    4. They hoped that their PAR benefits the community they worked with.

    RESEARCH METHODS (431)


    • Pre-PAR - questionnaire regarding each participant's motivations and expectations for the
    following discussions
    • Post-PAR - to determine if the participants' pre-PAR questionnaire expectations were met. It will
    remind [them] if the participants' opinions have changed or if they have learned something new as a
    result of the discussion.

    LIMITATIONS (432)
    • One limitation of this project was sampling.
    • The PAR was conducted only once.
    • The study was conducted on short notice and due to a lack of time, the study was limited to just one
    session.
    • Future PARs that are more in-depth and with more specific questions must be conducted.

    COLLECTIVE FINDINGS AND OBSERVATIONS (433)


    • The researchers consider the PAR successful because it challenged their knowledge claims as
    sociology students.
    • They were able to get a better sense of participants' practical knowledge which challenged the
    image of disaster preparedness portrayed in popular media.
    • They came up with shared solutions based on the practical knowledge and inter-subjective
    experiences of their respondents.

    CONCLUSION (439)
    • The community is willing to engage in conversation, share their experience, and learn from others.
    • Their openness to new ideas is the exact opposite of the traditional depiction of irrational
    stubbornness.
    • The research shows the community's practical knowledge about disaster preparedness and disaster
    risk management (Pante et al 2013:439).
    • It also challenges the power relation between researchers and respondents that is inevitably present
    in "traditional" research methods (Pante et al 2013:439).

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