This volume describes a grass-roots approach to empowering people for democratic social change. It explains participatory research using exemplary case studies on community organizing, feminist theory, and ecological movements from a wide range of locations in North America. The first collection of essays on participatory research in Canada and the United States, the book is an eloquent demonstration that the same approach to social change is needed in industrialized countries as it is in underdeveloped countries. Challenging the relevance and validity of academic social science research,…mehr
This volume describes a grass-roots approach to empowering people for democratic social change. It explains participatory research using exemplary case studies on community organizing, feminist theory, and ecological movements from a wide range of locations in North America. The first collection of essays on participatory research in Canada and the United States, the book is an eloquent demonstration that the same approach to social change is needed in industrialized countries as it is in underdeveloped countries. Challenging the relevance and validity of academic social science research, participatory research is an important tool for social activists, community workers, and adult educators working with oppressed peoples.
Mary Brydon-Miller, Budd Hall, Ted Jackson, Peter Park
Inhaltsangabe
Foreword by Paulo Freire Introduction by Budd Hall What is Participatory Research? A Theoretical and Methodological Perspective by Peter Park The Powerful, the Powerless, and the Experts: Knowledge Struggles in an Information Age by John Gaventa If You Can't Beat 'Em, Join 'Em: The Professionalization of Participatory Research by Thomas W. Heaney A Way of Working: Participatory Research and the Aboriginal Movement in Canada by Ted Jackson Putting Scientists in Their Place: Participatory Research in Environmental and Occupational Health by Juliet Merrifield The Appalachian Land Ownership Study: Research and Citizen Action in Appalachia by Billy D. Horton Participatory Research as Critical Theory: The North Bonneville, USA Experience by Donald E. Comstock and Russell Fox Breaking Down Barriers: Accessibility Self-Advocacy in the Disabled Community by Mary Brydon-Miller Aboriginal Organizations in Canada: Integrating Participatory Research by Marlene Brant Castellano Challenges, Contradictions, and Celebrations: Attempting Participatory Research as a Doctoral Student by Patricia Maguire Appendix: Contact Organizations Bibliography Index
Foreword by Paulo Freire Introduction by Budd Hall What is Participatory Research? A Theoretical and Methodological Perspective by Peter Park The Powerful, the Powerless, and the Experts: Knowledge Struggles in an Information Age by John Gaventa If You Can't Beat 'Em, Join 'Em: The Professionalization of Participatory Research by Thomas W. Heaney A Way of Working: Participatory Research and the Aboriginal Movement in Canada by Ted Jackson Putting Scientists in Their Place: Participatory Research in Environmental and Occupational Health by Juliet Merrifield The Appalachian Land Ownership Study: Research and Citizen Action in Appalachia by Billy D. Horton Participatory Research as Critical Theory: The North Bonneville, USA Experience by Donald E. Comstock and Russell Fox Breaking Down Barriers: Accessibility Self-Advocacy in the Disabled Community by Mary Brydon-Miller Aboriginal Organizations in Canada: Integrating Participatory Research by Marlene Brant Castellano Challenges, Contradictions, and Celebrations: Attempting Participatory Research as a Doctoral Student by Patricia Maguire Appendix: Contact Organizations Bibliography Index
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