This chapter examines participatory songwriting as an evaluative research method in humanitarian contexts, exploring its potential to centre adolescent voices and position young people as co-producers of knowledge. Drawing on a multi-country study with 110 adolescents affected by war, violence, and displacement in Lebanon, Jordan, and Türkiye, the chapter presents a participatory songwriting methodology that invited participants to explore their experiences of voice and voicelessness across the different relationship domains in their lives. In contrast to extractive research methods that collect data without reciprocal benefit, this method generated rich narrative data and tangible outputs—original songs—that held meaning beyond the research setting, offering adolescents tools for sharing their insights with peers and stakeholders. Participatory songwriting thus emerges as a relational, non-extractive approach to inquiry with practical and ethical value.

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Participatory Songwriting as Evaluative Research: Learning from Adolescent Experiences of Voice and Voicelessness

  • Gillian Howell

摘要

This chapter examines participatory songwriting as an evaluative research method in humanitarian contexts, exploring its potential to centre adolescent voices and position young people as co-producers of knowledge. Drawing on a multi-country study with 110 adolescents affected by war, violence, and displacement in Lebanon, Jordan, and Türkiye, the chapter presents a participatory songwriting methodology that invited participants to explore their experiences of voice and voicelessness across the different relationship domains in their lives. In contrast to extractive research methods that collect data without reciprocal benefit, this method generated rich narrative data and tangible outputs—original songs—that held meaning beyond the research setting, offering adolescents tools for sharing their insights with peers and stakeholders. Participatory songwriting thus emerges as a relational, non-extractive approach to inquiry with practical and ethical value.