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  We came to the
conclusion that participatory action research (PAR) isn’t just
any type of research; you can’t just get online and collect data
from different websites. You need to actually go to different
locations, survey people, interview people, make your own graphs
and analyze it to help correct the issue that was
researched. Traditional research is just going
online or in books to collect data that has no real meaning.
Anybody can do PAR. The most people that do it however, are
students (wendy), mayors, community activist and many other people.
The main goals of PAR are to be able to identify social issues in
our community, to collect data, and to educate people about those
issues.Â
- When I was doing my CBO
placement, I had the opportunity to go to HOPE.
HOPE is a non-profit organization
that specializes in keeping youth out of trouble in every way
possible, whether it’s by helping them with homework or even
by educating them on STDs and or preventing teen pregnancy. Through
HOPE, I was able to not really collect data but I was able to learn
a lot more about different types of STDs and reasons why more
Hispanic girls are getting pregnant at young ages. All of the
information I was given really helped a lot with the format and
angle that I wanted my paper to go in.
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GIS is another data technique that we learned in our in house
groups, GIS is a combination of both
geography and human geography; when thinking of GIS, you should
first think of maps, locations, and data. GIS, however,
takes human geography and runs with it, it’s a way to figure out
many different things: it could be where in the United States are
more Mexicans, who’s voting for whom when it come to the
presidential elections, or even what state in the United States are
more teens having babies. GIS is very useful for all types of
information. When learning
about GIS, I realized that I can use this system to map out all the
information I collect through my surveys, and
interviews.
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