PARTICIPATORY POLICY RESEARCH: THEORY TO PRACTICE

Abstract

               The purpose of the article was to present the implementation of participatory policy research. It is one of the research methods that were interested by educational administrators because policy making was the main duty for all the executives to demonstrate the future direction of the organization. The participatory policy research was developed from the policy research concept, to which the principle of participation had been applied in the research process. In the procedure, there were two important steps. The first step was data collection from several sources by organizing workshops for stakeholders to brainstorm the involved people, and the second step was an estimation of possible opportunities for policy proposal implementation by allowing stakeholders to cooperate in thinking, analysis and feedback by using the research data received from the first step of the research for consideration.