Participatory Research
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Item Participatory research handbook for community groups(International Council for Adult Education, 1978-06) Barndt, Deborah; Conchelos, Greg; Etherington, Alan; Galindo, June; Hall, Budd L; Harasim, Linda; Jackson, Ted; Marino, Dian; Tobias, Kathy; Vigoda, Al; Correia, Dianne; Icaza, Bernardita; Mansfield, JenniferItem Decolonization of knowledge, epistemicide, participatory research, and higher education(UCL Press, 2017) Hall, Budd L; Tandon, RajeshThis article raises questions about what the word ‘knowledge’ refers to. Drawn from some 40 years of collaborative work on knowledge democracy, the authors suggest that higher education institutions today are working with a very small part of the extensive and diverse knowledge systems in the world. Following from de Sousa Santos, they illustrate how Western knowledge has been engaged in epistemicide, or the killing of other knowledge systems. Community-based participatory research is about knowledge as an action strategy for change and about the rendering visible of the excluded knowledges of our remarkable planet. Knowledge stories, theoretical dimensions of knowledge democracy and the evolution of community-based participatory research partnerships are highlighted.Item Item The democratization of the production of knowledge(1988-05-03) Hall, Budd LItem International collaboration for changing the culture of research: UN SDGs and knowledge for change consortium(2020) Hall, Budd L; Tandon, RajeshUniversities are experiencing changes in the culture of research as they have known them. The theory of change being put forward in this article is based on the concept of international networking from and for the deepening of local participatory knowledge creation for social change.Item Item Engaged excellence and the challenge of democratizing knowledge: Reflections on the history and practice of participatory research(2016) Hall, Budd LWhat can we learn from the histories and practices of participatory research in our efforts to democratize knowledge? In this lecture, Dr. Budd Hall traces the political, methodological and personal journeys that shaped participatory research across continents. Through his work in Tanzania under Julius K. Nyerere and in dialogue with thinkers such as Paulo Freire and Orlando Fals Borda, he reflects on how participatory research emerged through collective efforts guided by a vision of social transformation. Extending Freire’s argument that methodology is never neutral but shaped by ideology and power, Hall examines how knowledge production is structured by the social positions researchers occupy. Speaking as a white, male academic from a wealthy country, he reflects on how universities reward publications and professional recognition, while community collaborators rarely receive similar benefits. Recalling key developments such as the 1977 Cartagena conference convened by Orlando Fals Borda, the lecture situates participatory research as a politically grounded practice shaped by struggles for justice. Hall affirms that it deserves a place within universities while remaining accountable to communities, and calls for sustained critical engagement with power, inequality and the ethical responsibilities of knowledge creation.Item Contemporary conversations and movements in adult education: From knowledge democracy to the aesthetic turn(2022) Hall, Budd L; Clover, Darlene EIn this article, two key figures in the history of the International Council for Adult Education, one being the Secretary General, discuss some of the contemporary conversations and movements that we have been a part of and how we are contributing through these areas to the field of adult education. Budd focusses on knowledge democracy, community-based participatory research and social movement learning. Darlene shares new conceptualisations of aesthetics and gender justice and her research and pedagogical work in these two areas.Item Beyond partnerships: Embracing complexity to understand and improve research collaboration for global development(2021) Fransman, Jude; Hall, Budd L; Hayman, Rachel; Narayanan, Pradeep; Newman, Kate; Tandon, RajeshWhile there is a burgeoning literature on the benefits of research collaboration for development, it tends to promote the idea of the ‘partnership’ as a bounded site in which interventions to improve collaborative practice can be made. This article draws on complexity theory and systems thinking to argue that such an assumption is problematic, divorcing collaboration from wider systems of research and practice. Instead, a systemic framework for understanding and evaluating collaboration is proposed. This framework is used to reflect on a set of principles for fair and equitable research collaboration that emerged from a programme of strategic research and capacity strengthening conducted by the Rethinking Research Collaborative (RRC) for the United Kingdom (UK)’s primary research funder: UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). The article concludes that a systemic conceptualisation of collaboration is more responsive than a ‘partnership’ approach, both to the principles of fairness and equity and also to uncertain futures.Item Paulo Freire and participatory action research(2018) Hall, Budd LHow has Paulo Freire’s pedagogy shaped the theory and practice of Participatory Action Research? This article offers a reflective engagement with the life and work of Paulo Freire, tracing the connections between his political pedagogy and the emergence of Participatory Action Research. Beginning with Freire’s biography in Northeast Brazil and his formative experiences of poverty, faith and political struggle, the paper situates his educational philosophy within wider movements for social transformation. It draws parallels between Freire’s dialogical, critical and action oriented pedagogy and the work of scholars such as Orlando Fals Borda, who involved peasant communities directly in research processes, as well as Budd Hall’s early engagements in Tanzania during the period of Julius Nyerere. The article argues that Freire’s insistence on linking reflection with action and recognising all people as knowers profoundly influenced the epistemological foundations of Participatory Action Research. Ultimately, it presents Participatory Action Research as a disciplined process of personal and social transformation inspired by Freire’s enduring commitment to humanisation, dialogue and collective action.
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