Journey to Praxis: Supporting Youth Activism - Research Pizza
Research Question: "In urban communities: how do youth development workers engage adolescent youth in social justice activism?"
Type of Research: Qualitative
Ideology: Critical
Methods and tools: questionnaires, interviews, follow up interviews, observations, organizational artifacts
Analyzed: by participants, researcher and tools like NVIVO
Delivery: Article
Other notes and questions:
I found it interesting how the research had a specific timeline of August 2016 to February 2017 but the article wasn't published until 2023 - a 6 year difference since the research ended. This brought me to the conclusion that this article either took a long time to get published or it took along time to analyze the research. I'm curious about what the whole timeline was.
Page 51 mentions, "I engaged triangulation by making sure the codes and the claims in the research report were supported by (1) multiple sources of data and (2) data from different modes of collection that included interviews, observation and the review of organizational artifacts." This brought up a couple of questions for me:
- If you are conducting your own research, how do you use "multiple sources of data"? I understand that the report had other references but what if your research doesn't align with, or have similar outcomes to other sources? I understand that we are likely not reinventing the wheel of research but what happens when you get completely different outcomes to similar research?
- "Organizational artifacts" were mentioned a couple of times and examples of "promotional materials and information from organizational websites" were used. What is the process to using organizational artifacts? While other methods were outlined with a specific process in which the research was conducted, what is the process to utilizing promotional materials?
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