Knowledge Democracy and Participatory Research
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Welcome to the Knowledge Democracy and Participatory Research Community. This community serves as a comprehensive repository of resources on participatory approaches, community-based research, and collaborative inquiry methods. Our mission is to foster knowledge sharing and support initiatives that empower communities to contribute to research, ensuring their voices shape the knowledge that impacts their lives.
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Item Community Education Agenda for the Pacific in the 90's(0000) Baba, Tupeni L.Item Adult Learning Principles(0000)The first component is the self-concept of the adult learner. The essential principle concept and contributes towards it. If the self-concept of a learner is low, the learner thinks that he/she is incapable, weak, inexperienced, does not know anything, ingnorant, powerless etc. This is the reflection of a weak self-concept and this self-concept, himself/herself and conditioned exploitation. by his/her circumstances, is also marginalization and Therefore, one of the first principles of adult learning suggests that helping the learners to build their self-concept, to regain their self-concept is important in facilitating learning of adults. Once they overcome self-concept, contribute their weak once they recognize that they have something to and learn, that they are capable, that they are of worth, then it becomes easier for them to learn. full Similarly, when adults learn, it strengthens their self-concept, and this is in the meaning of empowerment through learning. Empowerment the sense potential, learn. of my worth, my capacity, my concept of my self --my contribution, my occurs in adults when they Thus understanding of the self-concept, what conditions it, what weaken it, what conditions help to regain self-concept, build self-concept, empower one self, develop a sense worth of self-all these are necessary to understand for those of us concerned with facilitating the learning of other adults.Item Participative Development Process in Tribal Areas: Seva Mandir's View(0000)The problem of weakness and vulnerability of communities in tribal areas has many facets. The environmental, technical and social factors are here locked into a spiral degradation of resources and quality of lite. "Those regions are constantly drained of their surplus in produce and deprived of their educated and skilled manpower. Progress to the extent it takes place proceeds along lines of individual gain preserving or improving the status of the well-off and further impoverishing the weak. For the rich and poor alike, the population pressure on land, water, pasture and forest resources had assumed proportions which are intolerable in terms of the future viability of these communities.Item Draft Annex to Technical Note on Participation: Measurung and Assessing Participation(0000)This annex discusses the identification and use of indicators for measuring and assessing participation in development projects. Checklists of quantitative and qualitative indicators are provided and their application in a limited number of examples is discussed, especially in relation to the project framework. For project frameworks (PFs), quantitative indicators which are also proxies for qualitative outcomes may be appropriate in some cases. The significance and meaning of these proxies can be elaborated in the main text of a project document. Building in specific time referents to indicators, and ensuring disaggregation of project target groups, can reduce their ambiguity, and direct project managers' attention to the phasing of participation.Item Understanding "Popular Participation"(Society for Participatory Research in Asia, 0000) Jena, Nalin RanjanPeople's participation is becoming the central contemporary time. The political transition in issue of many countries, the collapse of many socialist regimes. the developing and worldwide emergence of people's organisations are a part of process of historic change rather than just isolated events. the the And these changes testify one discernible worldwide trend that people today are manifesting an increasing urge to participate in events the and process that shape their lives. People are beginning to move to centre stage in national and global dialogues. Regent Developments all over the globe have posed new threats and coined up new avenues, for the common people to participate in the decision-making process. The Cold War in East-West relation over, market the ideological battles of the past are being replaced forces. The rising environmental threat 15 by reminding humanity of both its vulnerability and its compulsion for common survival on a fragile planet.Item Key For Cead Interviews(0000)Item Participatory Research: An Alternative(0000)The term 'Participatory Research was first used in the context of adult education during the 1970s. Its articulation was an attempt to reinstate the underlying philosophy of adult education which several adult educators felt was being diluted in practice. Adult education is premised on a commitment to adults actively participating in the world, deciding what they want to learn and the best way they can learn is. The professional training adult educators receive however, along with and their engagement in systematic, empirical research distances them from learners and establishes a one-way control over the research process. Similar contradictions were being faced by other social scientists particularly those who had experienced the inadequacies of the conventional research methodology in explain the harsh realities faced by oppressed people around the world.Item Budgeting Project of Deep(0000)DEEP is a non governmental organization, which is involved in income generation, programmes through self help groups. The SHGs make biscuits and market them through DEEP. The organization has marketing unit headed by a marketing manager and a production unit headed by a production manager. A number of staff work under each unit. Suppose that the head of the organization wants her next year's operating budget prepared as soon as possible. To accomplish this project the sales staff of the organization must provide unit sales estimates (number of biscuits to be sold) for the period to both the sales manager and the production manger. The sales staff undertake a survey of competitive pricing simultaneously with the forecasting. Then the sales manager must estimate market prices on the forecast and give these to the financial officer. The production manager must make "dice" schedules of the units (number of biscuits to be made) to be produced and assign "dices" for their production.Item Participatory Research in Health: Setting the Context(0000) de Koning, Korrie; Martin, MarionThis chapter provides an overview of participatory research (PR) in health, emphasizing its educational, cultural, and socio-political underpinnings. The authors contextualize PR by discussing its methodologies, such as Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) and Rapid Rural Appraisal (RRA), and their relevance in bridging gaps between professional models and community perspectives. Influenced by Freire's critical pedagogy, the text highlights PR's transformative role in fostering community empowerment and improving health outcomes. It also delves into the historical development of PR, its emancipatory goals, and the importance of linking knowledge production with action.Item Participatory Action Research – The aspect of Research(0000) Moser, HeinzThis document explores the concept of participatory action research (PAR) in the context of political, social, and educational strategies. It discusses the shift from expert-driven approaches to those that empower communities, focusing on the role of knowledge in overcoming social inequality. The paper critiques the challenges of using PAR as a means of both challenging and reinforcing power structures, offering insights into the dialogue between researchers and participants, and the cyclical process of knowledge validation through action and reflection.