Nurtured by knowledge : learning to do participatory action-research

Contributor(s): Smith, Susan E | Willms, Dennis George | Johnson, Nancy AMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Ottawa : The Apex Press ; International Development Research Centre, c1997Description: xxii, 281 p. : illustrationsISBN: 0945257821 (hardcover); 9780945257820; 0945257813 (pbk.); 9780945257813 ; 0889368163 ; 9780889368163Subject(s): Social problems | Action research | Action research | Social action | Social participationDDC classification: 300.72
Contents:
1. Cows for campesinos / Gerald Debbink, Arturo Ornelas -- 2. Changing disabling environments through participatory action-research : a Canadian experience / Mary Law -- 3. Doctors, dais, and nurse-midwives : women's health service utilization in northern India / Patricia Seymour -- 4. "We are dying. It is finished!" : linking and ethnographic research design to an HIV/AIDS participatory approach in Uganda / Patricia Spittal . [and others] -- 5. Grounding a long-term ideal : working with the Aymara for community development / Maria-Ines Arratia, Isabel de al Maza -- 6. Pasantías and social participation : participatory action-research as a way of life / Arturo Ornelas -- 7. Deepening participatory action research / Susan E. Smith.
Summary: "This book describes the struggle to build on a twenty-five year approach to democratic social change and personal growth known as participatory action-research (PAR). It based on the principle that people have a universal right to participate the production of knowledge that directly affects their lives. The heart of the book is a series of compelling case studies of PAR and attempts to achieve it in such diverse places as Canada, India, Africa, and Latin America. The final chapter analyzes lessons from these case studies and explores the principles and evolvong processes of the PAR methodology in striving to satisfy the need for liberation and recovery of community."--Back cover.
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1. Cows for campesinos / Gerald Debbink, Arturo Ornelas --
2. Changing disabling environments through participatory action-research : a Canadian experience / Mary Law --
3. Doctors, dais, and nurse-midwives : women's health service utilization in northern India / Patricia Seymour --
4. "We are dying. It is finished!" : linking and ethnographic research design to an HIV/AIDS participatory approach in Uganda / Patricia Spittal . [and others] --
5. Grounding a long-term ideal : working with the Aymara for community development / Maria-Ines Arratia, Isabel de al Maza --
6. Pasantías and social participation : participatory action-research as a way of life / Arturo Ornelas --
7. Deepening participatory action research / Susan E. Smith.

"This book describes the struggle to build on a twenty-five year approach to democratic social change and personal growth known as participatory action-research (PAR). It based on the principle that people have a universal right to participate the production of knowledge that directly affects their lives. The heart of the book is a series of compelling case studies of PAR and attempts to achieve it in such diverse places as Canada, India, Africa, and Latin America. The final chapter analyzes lessons from these case studies and explores the principles and evolvong processes of the PAR methodology in striving to satisfy the need for liberation and recovery of community."--Back cover.

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