The whyPAR Podcast

The whyPAR Podcast

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The whyPAR Podcast is a podcast where youth participatory action research (YPAR) practitioners discuss the ethical dimensions of conducting YPAR. In this podcast, we explore issues of co-leading YPAR projects, building relationships, power dynamics, and sharing our work together. We ask practitioners to consider the ethical commitments that guide their work, as they push against structures, and reach towards new futures. The whyPAR Podcast is based out of the Youth Research Lab at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) in the University of Toronto.

Recent Episodes

  • “People who live in their neighbourhoods know it better”: On community engaged and participatory urban planning research with Dr. Aditi Mehta

    10 months ago
  • “There’s no one way to do this”: On youth-adult partnerships and embracing complexity, a conversation with Sharif Mahdy, Stoney McCart, Kwaku Agyemang, and Maddy Ross

    11 months ago
  • “Not everything can be fully participatory, right?”: On "True" PAR, A Conversation between Aurora Santiago-Ortiz and Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández

    2 years ago
  • “What happens when you run onto the edges of progressivism?”: On Conducting YPAR in Elite Schools, A Conversation Between Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández and Leila Angod

    2 years ago
  • “Art Is Research”: On Knowledge from Identity and Place - A Conversation between Maddy Ross and Artist-Researchers Pree Rehal, Bert Whitecrow, Ayrah Taerb, Ammarah Syed, and Jahmal Nugent

    2 years ago
  • “How to Empower Themselves in an Industry Not Meant for Them”: On Community-Engaged Programming with Lil Sis (Alma Ahmed, Suzanna Maharaj, Rayan Saied, Belul Kidane, and Kamilah Apong) and Naima Raza

    2 years ago
  • “Now that we were conducting the research, it felt more like power“: On Doing YPAR Before and During COVID-19 - A Conversation between Maddy Ross and youth researchers at the Youth Research Lab

    3 years ago
  • “If we really learned like this in school, school would be so much better”: On Building Generative Classrooms - A Conversation Between Maddy Ross and youth researchers at the Youth Research Lab

    3 years ago
  • “Getting to the point where we erase the Y the P and the A”: A Conversation Between Nicole Mirra, Antero Garcia and Melanie Bertrand

    3 years ago
  • “Beauty emerges out of commitment”: How Youth Collectives Create Beauty, A Conversation Between Rangoato Hlasane and Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández

    3 years ago