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	Analisi Conversazionale Partecipativa	Ricerca-Azione Partecipata (PAR)
Campo	Qualitativo	Qualitativo
Famiglia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anno di origine	2000s–2010s (building on CA foundations from the 1960s–1970s)	1940s (Lewin); PAR as distinct tradition formalised ~1970s–1980s
Ideatore	Developed from Harvey Sacks, Emanuel Schegloff, and Gail Jefferson's Conversation Analysis tradition; participatory variant emerged in applied and practitioner research contexts in the 2000s–2010s	Kurt Lewin (action research foundations, 1940s); systematised for participatory contexts by Orlando Fals Borda, Paulo Freire, and William Foote Whyte
Tipo	Qualitative research method	Qualitative research method
Fonte seminale	Lee, E., & Howes, C. (2020). Conversation analysis as a creative research methodology. Early Child Development and Care, 190(2), 1–14.	Kemmis, S., McTaggart, R., & Nixon, R. (2014). The Action Research Planner: Doing Critical Participatory Action Research. Springer.
Alias	PCA, collaborative conversation analysis, practitioner-involved CA, participatory CA	PAR, community-based participatory research, collaborative action research, participatory inquiry
Correlati	4	6
Sintesi	Participatory Conversation Analysis (PCA) extends classical Conversation Analysis by actively involving the people whose talk is being studied in the analytical process. Rather than treating analysis as the researcher's exclusive domain, PCA invites practitioners, community members, or research participants to co-review recordings or transcripts of their own interaction, contribute insider meanings, and collaboratively refine the interpretation of interactional patterns. The approach is widely used in education, healthcare communication, and professional learning contexts.	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.