Values-Based Participatory Action Research in Development Ethics

Abstract This chapter explores the pros and cons of values-based participatory action research, from an ethics of regards, to discuss how a values-based participatory action research could be articulated as a values-adding paradigm shift in values-based research methodologies. Values-based participatory action research is a community-engaging research methodology that emphasises values, participation, and common action as methods of enquiry. Along with the ethics of regards, it argues that how values are understood may impact participatory-decision, research design, and possible outcomes. Participation is more than involvement but a context where values are identified, shared, or even contested. To engage the paradigm, development ethics will be used as a research context.