Education, Participatory Action Research, and Social Change International Perspectives

by Kapoor, Dip; Jordan, Steven

• ISBN13: 9780230615137
• ISBN10: 0230615139
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-09-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Drawing primarily from critical traditions in social and educational research, this book frames contemporary issues and several conceptual, theoretical-analytical and onto-epistemmic approaches towards the development and practice of PAR (Participatory Action Research) in multiple educational spaces and initiatives for socio-cultural change. These include indigenous conceptions from Berber (Algeria), Cree & Innuit (Canada), Maori (New Zealand), Adivasi (India) and African indigenous communities in Tanzania and Zimbabwe, while critical Euro-American traditions address neoliberal cooptation of PAR, Habermasian applications in higher education, critical pedagogy and critical ecological perspectives in North America and Australia.

Author Biography

Steven Jordan is Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education (DISE), Faculty of Education, McGill University. His articles have been published in journals such as the British Journal of Sociology of Education, International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, Studies in the Education of Adults, Journal of Vocational Education and Training, Comparative Education, Curriculum Studies, Education and Society, and others. Most recently he has had an entry accepted on PAR in the Sage Encyclopaedia of Qualitative Research and has published book chapters on critical ethnography and globalization. He is a founding director (2001) of Alternative Links, a UK/Canadian NGO aimed at knowledge transfer in the field of information and communications technology (ICT).

Dip Kapoor is Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Policy Studies, University of Alberta and volunteer Research Associate of the Center for Research and Development Solidarity (CRDS), an Adivasi-Dalit peoples’ organization in Orissa, India.  He is founding member and President of a Canadian voluntary organization that has been engaged with Adivasi-Dalit people in Orissa since 1995. His articles have appeared in Convergence, Adult Education & Development, New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, Development in Practice, International Education, Journal of Postcolonial Education, and Canadian and International Education. He is co-editor of Global Perspectives on Adult Education (2008, Palgrave Macmillan) and Beyond Development and Globalization: Social Movement and Critical Perspectives. He has contributed several book chapters to various collections addressing education and social development, adult education, environmental education, and human rights.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction: International Perspectives on Education, PAR, and Social Change	p. 1
International Perspectives on Education and PAR
From a Methodology of the Margins to Neoliberal Appropriation and Beyond: The Lineages of PAR	p. 15
Participatory academic research (par) and People's Participatory Action Research (PAR): Research, Politicization, and Subaltern Social Movements in India	p. 29
When Research Becomes a Revolution: Participatory Action Research with Indigenous Peoples	p. 45
Ko t&abar;tou te rangahau, ko te rangahau, ko t&abar;tou: A M&abar;ori Approach to Participatory Action Research	p. 59
Translating "Participation" from North to South: A Case Against Intellectual Imperialism in Social Science Research	p. 73
Action Research for Curriculum Internationalization: Education versus Commercialization	p. 89
Critical Complexity and Participatory Action Research: Decolonizing "Democratic" Knowledge Production	p. 107
Reconceptualizing Participatory Action Research for Sustainability Education	p. 123
International Contexts: Case Studies of PAR, Education, and Social Change
Chara chimwe hachitswanyi inda: Indigenizing Science Education in Zimbabwe	p. 139
Research and Agency: The Case of Rural Women and Land Tenure in Tanzania	p. 155
NGO-Community Partnerships, PAR, and Learning in Mining Struggles in Ghana	p. 169
Ethnography-in-Motion: Neoliberalism and the Shack Dwellers Movement in South Africa	p. 181
Kabyle Community Participatory Action Research (CPAR) in Algeria: Reflections on Research, Amazigh Identity, and Schooling	p. 195
Notes and Queries for an Activist Street Anthropology: Street Resistance, Gringopolítica, and the Quest for Subaltern Visions in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil	p. 209
A Participatory Research Approach to Exploring Social Movement Learning in the Chilean Women's Movement	p. 223
Participatory Research, NGOs, and Grassroots Development: Challenges in Rural Bangladesh	p. 239
Making Space for Youth: iHuman Youth Society and Arts-Based Participatory Research with Street-Involved Youth in Canada	p. 251
Contributors	p. 265
Index	p. 271
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