Confronta i metodi

	Metodo di storia orale partecipativa	Ricerca-Azione Partecipata (PAR)
Campo	Metodi sul campo	Qualitativo
Famiglia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anno di origine	1970s–1990s (community oral history movement formalized)	1940s (Lewin); PAR as distinct tradition formalised ~1970s–1980s
Ideatore	Influenced by Alessandro Portelli, Sherna Berger Gluck, Paul Thompson, and development-oriented oral historians	Kurt Lewin (action research foundations, 1940s); systematised for participatory contexts by Orlando Fals Borda, Paulo Freire, and William Foote Whyte
Tipo	Qualitative participatory research	Qualitative research method
Fonte seminale	Slim, H., & Thompson, P. (1993). Listening for a Change: Oral Testimony and Community Development. Panos Institute.	Kemmis, S., McTaggart, R., & Nixon, R. (2014). The Action Research Planner: Doing Critical Participatory Action Research. Springer.
Alias	community oral history, collaborative oral history, participatory oral history, community-based oral history	PAR, community-based participatory research, collaborative action research, participatory inquiry
Correlati	5	6
Sintesi	Participatory oral history method is a qualitative research approach in which community members are not merely interview subjects but active co-investigators who help shape the research questions, conduct or co-conduct interviews, analyze narratives, and govern how the resulting record is used. Rooted in both the oral history tradition and participatory action research, it foregrounds community ownership, reciprocity, and the democratic production of historical knowledge from marginalized or underrepresented voices.	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.