Comparar métodos

	Diseño Participativo Concurrente Embebido de Métodos Mixtos	Investigación-Acción Participativa (IAP)
Campo	Diseño de investigación	Cualitativa
Familia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Año de origen	2000s–2010s	1940s (Lewin); PAR as distinct tradition formalised ~1970s–1980s
Autor original	Creswell & Plano Clark (embedded design); Mertens, Tashakkori & Teddlie (participatory frameworks)	Kurt Lewin (action research foundations, 1940s); systematised for participatory contexts by Orlando Fals Borda, Paulo Freire, and William Foote Whyte
Tipo	Mixed methods research design	Qualitative research method
Fuente seminal	Creswell, J. W., & Plano Clark, V. L. (2018). Designing and Conducting Mixed Methods Research (3rd ed.). SAGE Publications. ISBN: 978-1483344379	Kemmis, S., McTaggart, R., & Nixon, R. (2014). The Action Research Planner: Doing Critical Participatory Action Research. Springer.
Alias	participatory embedded concurrent design, action-research embedded mixed methods, PAR concurrent embedded design, community-based embedded mixed methods	PAR, community-based participatory research, collaborative action research, participatory inquiry
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Resumen	Participatory concurrent embedded mixed methods is a research design that combines a participatory or community-based action research framework with an embedded concurrent data structure — simultaneously collecting dominant and supplementary data strands from community stakeholders who are active co-investigators rather than passive subjects. The embedded strand (typically qualitative) is nested within the dominant strand (typically quantitative) and both are gathered at the same time while community members guide priorities, instruments, and meaning-making throughout.	Participatory Action Research (PAR) is a qualitative, community-centred methodology in which researchers and community members collaborate as co-investigators to identify a shared problem, take deliberate action, observe outcomes, and reflect critically on results — cycling iteratively until meaningful change is achieved. Unlike conventional research that studies people from the outside, PAR treats participants as active agents who co-own the research process, the knowledge produced, and the practical interventions that follow.