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	Metodi Misti Trasformativi Partecipativi	Ricerca-Azione Partecipata (PAR)
Campo	Disegno della ricerca	Qualitativo
Famiglia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anno di origine	2000s–2010s	1940s (Lewin); PAR as distinct tradition formalised ~1970s–1980s
Ideatore	Donna M. Mertens (transformative paradigm); John W. Creswell & Vicki L. Plano Clark (mixed methods framework)	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
Fonte seminale	Mertens, D. M. (2010). Research and Evaluation in Education and Psychology: Integrating Diversity with Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Methods (3rd ed.). Sage. ISBN: 978-1412958608	Kemmis, S., McTaggart, R., & Nixon, R. (2014). The Action Research Planner: Doing Critical Participatory Action Research. Springer.
Alias	participatory transformative MMR, transformative-participatory mixed methods, emancipatory participatory mixed design, social-justice participatory mixed methods	PAR, community-based participatory research, collaborative action research, participatory inquiry
Correlati	5	6
Sintesi	Participatory transformative mixed methods is a research design that embeds both a participatory action framework and a transformative paradigm within mixed methods inquiry. Both quantitative and qualitative data are collected in active collaboration with marginalized or underserved communities, with the explicit aim of producing findings that challenge inequity, empower participants, and drive social change. Donna Mertens' transformative paradigm and the mixed methods tradition of Creswell and Plano Clark jointly inform the approach.	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.