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	Storia Orale con Elicitazione Visiva	Ricerca-Azione Partecipata (PAR)
Campo	Qualitativo	Qualitativo
Famiglia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anno di origine	1957 (Collier's foundational experiment); oral history integration developed 1980s–2000s	1940s (Lewin); PAR as distinct tradition formalised ~1970s–1980s
Ideatore	John Collier Jr. (photo elicitation basis); extended into oral history by visual anthropologists and memory studies scholars	Kurt Lewin (action research foundations, 1940s); systematised for participatory contexts by Orlando Fals Borda, Paulo Freire, and William Foote Whyte
Tipo	Qualitative interview-based method	Qualitative research method
Fonte seminale	Collier, J. (1957). Photography in anthropology: A report on two experiments. American Anthropologist, 59(5), 843–859.	Kemmis, S., McTaggart, R., & Nixon, R. (2014). The Action Research Planner: Doing Critical Participatory Action Research. Springer.
Alias	photo-elicitation oral history, image-elicitation life history, visual oral history interview, VEOH	PAR, community-based participatory research, collaborative action research, participatory inquiry
Correlati	4	6
Sintesi	Visual elicitation oral history is a qualitative method that uses photographs, objects, maps, or other visual materials as prompts during oral history interviews. By placing a tangible visual anchor before the narrator, the researcher unlocks richer, more detailed memories and personal meanings than spoken questions alone typically produce. The approach merges John Collier Jr.'s photo-elicitation technique with oral history's commitment to capturing first-person lived experience across time.	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.